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Ice detection and
measurement systems
Research collaboration
between
industry and academia
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Patrik Jonsson, Ph.D.
Björn Ollars, B.Eng.
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When does ice form?
• Direct methods – Measurement
of ice and production losses
• Indirect methods –
Measurement of the
environment conditions and
prognosis of icing
Common calculation methods uses
geographical parameters and
meteorological parameters.
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Our Research
• By using cameras for photographing water droplets in
the air it is possible to determine LWC and MVD
• The instrument can be used on different sites and
locations
• The instrument must be cost effective enough to allow
installation at a larger scale
• The instrument must be possible to integrate with
loggers and systems for remote data collection
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Droplet measurement principle
• A 4MP CMOS camera with a lense
• LED flasher with collimating optics
• Computer for automatic analysis and storage of data
Camera Lens
Wind direction
LED
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Large droplets
LWC = 16.7 g/m³
MVD = 38.1 µm
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Small droplets
LWC = 5.5 g/m³
MVD = 8.9 µm
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Climate chamber and sensor
• The image shows the monitoring equipment in a
climate chamber filled with fog. The sensor can
continously report LWC and MVD
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LWC and MVD sensor - Field tests
• During 2016 a prototype will be installed
for field tests at an SMHI mountain site
• Reference instruments will be
– IceMonitor™ from Combitech
– CDP-2 from Droplet Measurement
Technologies
• Logger system will be Odin from
Combitech
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IceMonitor™
• IceMonitor™ designed according to the ISO 12494
specification (Atmospheric icing of structures)
• The output signal standard 4–20mA
• Optional logger and communication unit
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Droplet sensor – CDP2
• Forward scattering
spectrometer
• A laser beam emitter
• Photodetectors
• Particle size 2-50 µm
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Odin – logger unit
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Base application
2 x RS232
48 x Digital I/O
Analogue I/O
7 x ETH
3 x USB host
Secure Digital
Timers
GPS
8 x Counters
PCIe mini Card
LVDS
Operating system
Software
Hardware
Sensor
Inte
rfaces
Com
munic
ation
Customer application
16 x ADC
XGA 1024x768
PCI Express
GSM
GPRS
3G
4G
PSTN modem
Radio
Radio modem
Rakel
4 x RS485/422
Tetra modem
USB 3.0
RS232
RS485
RS422
Ethernet
State of the artembedded system
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NIR imaging ice detection
Visual image of wing blade
piece with water ice and snow
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KNN
50 100 150 200 250 300
50
100
150
200
250
Unclassified
Dry
Wet
Snowy
Icy
Conflicting
Water
Ice
Snow
Piece of wing
dry
dry
Ice
Ice
Classified blade surface status
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Sky monitoring system
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Complete system solution
• Research sensor equipment
• Reference sensor equipment
• High quality standard meteorological sensors
• Advanced logger unit (data check, storage, calculations)
• Communication solution (3G, 4G, Net1, Radio)
• Data storage in SQL database
• Data accessible in web interfaces
• Software development for logger, communication, analysis, artificial
intelligence, classification and presentation of data
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Cost effective monitoring system
• Combitech has developed a low
cost monitoring system with only a
small degradation of data quality
• Based on latest small computer units
(Beaglebone)
• Very advanced software on an
inexpensive hardware
• Sensors supported
– Meteorological sensors
– Ice detectors
– Cameras
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