The present invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent monitoring, and particularly relates to a heating pipeline operating state monitoring system and method integrating pressure sensing and temperature sensing.
A heating pipeline is a bridge to connect a heat source with heat consumers. As the scale of an urban heating pipeline network is growing, the failure probability of heating pipelines has increased. Pipeline leakage is the most common form of failure. Pipeline leakage causes energy waste and economic losses easily and also brings a potential danger of safety accidents to inspection personnel, thus, it is crucial to monitor the operating state of the heating pipelines in real time. Traditional pipeline leakage monitoring includes a negative-pressure wave detection method, a distributed optical fiber method, a flow balancing method, a wavelet analysis method, etc., through hardware and software, the extraction and analysis of pipeline operating parameters are realized, and a certain positioning precision and leakage prediction precision are provided. However, the above methods mostly stay in the theory, simulation and laboratory stages, and in practical engineering, the cost of arranging various sensing devices along a pipeline is high, and the field applicability is low. Therefore, the present invention designs a heating pipeline operating state monitoring system and method integrating pressure sensing and temperature sensing. By integrating on-site pressure sensing and temperature sensing, operating state monitoring on the heating pipelines and pipeline leakage analysis and early warning are realized without adding sensing devices.
In view of the disadvantages in the prior art, the present invention provides a heating pipeline operating state monitoring system and method integrating pressure sensing and temperature sensing, which solve the problems of high economical costs and low field applicability of traditional pipeline leakage monitoring.
The present invention achieves the described technical object by the following technical means.
Provided is a monitoring method for a heating pipeline operating state monitoring system based on integrating pressure sensing and temperature sensing. The monitoring system comprises temperature sensors, pressure sensors, an Internet of Things (IoT) electricity meter, a PLC, an IoT DTU, a communication cable and a remote server; the pressure sensors and the temperature sensors are arranged on a heating pipeline; the IoT electricity meter is located in a device pump unit distribution box at the starting end of the heating pipeline and collects a frequency variation of a heating supply pump in real time; the PLC communicates with the temperature sensors, the pressure sensors, the IoT electricity meter and the IoT DTU, receives temperature values, pressure values and frequency values collected in real time, performs operation analysis, outputs early warning signals and positions a leakage point; and the IoT DTU is in signal connection with the remote server via a mobile network, and the remote server processes and stores all data of the monitoring system.
The monitoring method comprises the following steps:
Further, in step 1, on the heating pipeline, a temperature sensor is arranged within a certain distance downstream of the pressure sensor, and three temperature sensors and two pressure sensors are selected to form a leakage analysis unit.
Further, in step 2, the process of analyzing and solving a pipeline leakage transient steam temperature and a pipeline leakage transient pressure by the PLC is specifically as follows:
Further, in step 3, the process of positioning a leakage location by the PLC according to a pressure gradient method is specifically as follows:
Further, in step 3, in the process of positioning the location of the leakage point, a correction coefficient ξ is introduced, and the value X is corrected by a method of using temperatures to correct pressures, wherein the correction coefficient is represented by a formula below:
Further, in step 4, the process of performing, by the PLC, a pipeline leakage early warning and an on-off early warning of a heating supply pump unit is specifically as follows:
Further, the early warning condition is
Further, the on-off condition is that the frequency value is greater than 52 h or less than 48 h.
The present invention has the following beneficial effects:
As shown in the figure: 1—temperature sensor A; 2—pressure sensor A; 3—temperature sensor B; 4—pressure sensor B; 5—temperature sensor C; 6—thermal insulation layer; 7—pipe wall.
The present invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto. Mediums in a heating pipeline may be water, steam or a gas-liquid two-phase. Operating state monitoring schemes for the mediums are the same. The scheme of the present invention is described by preferably taking the heating pipeline using steam as the medium as an example.
With reference to
The pressure sensors and the temperature sensors are arranged on a heating pipeline. Without changing the arrangement number and distance in an original heating pipeline instrument construction drawing, digital sensors with a communication function are adopted as substitutes, facilitating the real-time acquisition of system data; and the IoT electricity meter is located in a device pump distribution box at the starting end of the heating pipeline, and the IoT electricity meter with a communication function is used for collecting a frequency variation of a heating supply pump in real time.
The PLC, as a core control component of the monitoring system, includes a PLC body, an extended communication module I and an extended communication module II; the extended communication module I communicates with the temperature sensors and the pressure sensors via RS485 and is responsible for receiving temperature values and pressure values collected by the sensors in real time; the extended communication module II communicates with the IoT DTU via a MODBUS protocol and is responsible for uploading processed data; and the PLC body is responsible for storing data collected by the extended communication module I, performing operation and analysis on the data according to an established logical program and outputting early warning signals.
After completing communication with the PLC, the IoT DTU uploads the processed data to the remote server via a 4G mobile network, and all the data of the monitoring system are processed and stored by the remote server.
The remote server is built based on an MQTT protocol, receives the data uploaded by the IoT DTU and data uploaded by the IoT electricity meter and can integrally display pressure parameters, temperature parameters and early warning signals of the heating pipeline via cloud platforms such as a self-developed platform or Alibaba Cloud.
The IoT DTU, the temperature sensors and the pressure sensors are powered by a 24V power supply. An output port of the PLC is connected to a relay KA1. After the PLC outputs an early warning signal, the relay KA1 drives a buzzer to send out an early warning for field leakage.
A heating pipeline operating state monitoring method using the heating pipeline operating state monitoring system integrating pressure sensing and temperature sensing, as shown in
Step 2, receiving, by the PLC, temperature values and pressure values collected by the temperature sensors and the pressure sensors in real time, and performing early-stage theoretical analysis on energy at a leakage point;
Therefore, in the case of no pipeline leakage, the variation of a steam heat capacity in the pipeline is:
ΔQN=Q−Qh−Qu
In the case of pipeline leakage, steam in the pipeline directly contacts the thermal insulation layer 6 along a leakage hole. The heat transfer process includes convective heat exchange between fluid in the pipeline and the wall of the leakage hole, convective heat exchange between the fluid in the pipeline and the thermal insulation layer 6 and heat conduction between an inner surface of the thermal insulation layer 6 and an outer surface of the thermal insulation layer 6. Due to the existence of the thermal insulation layer 6 at the leakage hole, part of leakage steam cannot flow out freely and forms a backflow within a short time, and thus, as shown in
ΔQL=Q−Qh−Qt−Qu
By comparing the variation of the steam heat capacity in the case of pipeline leakage with the variation of the steam heat capacity in the case of no leakage, there is only the capacity of convective heat exchange between the steam and the thermal insulation layer 6 Qt, namely the variation of a transient heat capacity in the case of steam leakage ΔQ=Qt;
In the case of no pipeline leakage, a fluid gap between the outer wall of the pipeline and the inner surface of the thermal insulation layer 6 can be ignored since the thermal insulation layer 6 outside the pipeline is wrapped tightly, the temperature of the outer wall of the pipeline is approximately equal to the temperature of the inner surface of the thermal insulation layer 6, and by analyzing radial heat transfer of the pipeline, the temperature of the outer wall of the pipeline can be obtained in the case of no leakage ToN:
Since a heat flow Φ in each heat transfer process remains unchanged, that is Φh=Φc=ΦvΦ, ToN can be obtained from simultaneous equations (2)-(4); at the moment of leakage, the temperature of the inner surface of the thermal insulation layer 6 is the temperature of the outer wall of the pipeline without leakage, that is ToN=ToL, and thus, the variation of the transient heat capacity of steam at the moment of leakage can be obtained by substituting ToL into the formula (1) ΔQ.
In addition, in the actual situation, the aperture of the leakage hole is smaller than the pipeline diameter, and the variation of a transient heat capacity of steam in a leakage space V(V=δ·A) satisfies:
ΔQ=cpmΔT=cpρ(δA)(Ti−Tm) (5)
further in Step 2, continuously receiving, by the PLC, temperature values and pressure values collected by the temperature sensors and the pressure sensors in real time based on the unit division in step 1 and the theoretical analysis above, analyzing and solving a pipeline leakage transient temperature and a pipeline leakage transient pressure;
As the pressure variation propagates in the pipeline in the form of pressure waves and is greatly affected by noise, environment, etc. and the variation of the temperature in the pipeline is less affected by an external environment, the process of solving the transient pressure by the leakage transient temperature is specifically as follows:
it is known from the analysis in step 2 that at the moment of leakage, ToN=ToL=To
Step 3, positioning a leakage location by the PLC according to a pressure gradient method, wherein unit zones are divided according to the leakage analysis in step 1, the scheme is described by taking the leakage point located in the zone II as an example in this embodiment, and analysis on other zones is similar;
wherein L is a distance between the pressure sensor A2 and the temperature sensor B3, and the unit is m; S is a distance between the temperature sensor B3 and the pressure sensor B4, and the unit is m; X is a distance from the leakage point to the pressure sensor A2, and the unit is m; and X is a gradient direction;
in the case of pipeline leakage, no phenomena of obvious free outflow and flow reduction of steam occur because of the presence of the thermal insulation layer 6, and therefore pressure gradients upstream and downstream of the leakage point are approximately the same, and after being stabilized, the pressures restore an original pressure distribution along the pipeline.
it can be obtained from simultaneous equations (8)-(10) that:
To improve positioning accuracy, a correction coefficient ξ is introduced;
Since both the temperature variation and the pressure variation are caused by the same leakage location, by a method of using temperatures to correct pressures in conjunction with a result of numerical simulation, the correction coefficient ξ is expressed by a formula below:
The location of the leakage point can be positioned accurately according to a calculated value X.
Step 4, performing, by the PLC, a pipeline leakage early warning and an on-off early warning of a heating supply pump unit;
When an on-off event happens to the heating supply pump unit at the starting end of the pipeline, a great gradient variation of the pressure in the pipeline may be caused, which can cause a false leakage early warning easily; therefore, the PLC collects data from the pressure sensors and the temperature sensors to form a pressure dataset (P1,P2,P3,P4, . . . Pi . . . , PN) and a temperature dataset (T1,T2,T3,T4, . . . Ti, . . . , TN) for representing a pressure value distribution and a temperature value distribution along the pipeline at the same moment and draws pressure and temperature sensor curve graphs, wherein P1, P2, P3, P4, Pi and PN respectively represent the pressure values detected by the pressure sensors numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, i and N, and T1, T2, T3, T4, Ti, and TN, represent the temperature values detected by the temperature sensors numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, i and N;
Then, a sampling period Δt is set (in this embodiment Δt=1s), the pressure value distribution (Pi,PiΔt,Pi3Δt, . . . , PinΔt) of the same pressure sensor and the temperature value distribution (Ti,TiΔt,Ti2Δt,Tu3Δt, . . . , TinΔt) of the same temperature sensor at intervals of 1 s are formed, wherein n represents a collection frequency, PiΔt, Pi2Δt, Pi3Δt and PinΔt and respectively represent pressure values collected by the pressure sensor numbered at intervals of Δt, 2 Δt, 3 Δt and n Δt, and TiΔt, Ti2Δt, Ti3Δt and TinΔt respectively represent temperature values collected by the temperature sensor numbered i at intervals of Δt, 2 Δt, 3 Δt and n Δt;
A leakage pressure threshold value preset in the PLC is
The embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Without departing from the essence of the present invention, any obvious improvements, replacements, or modifications that can be made by those skilled in the art should fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.
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