EP1819992A1 - Method for evaluating and correcting measurement signals of a filling level measurement instrument operating according to the transit time measurement method - Google Patents
Method for evaluating and correcting measurement signals of a filling level measurement instrument operating according to the transit time measurement methodInfo
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
- G01F23/00—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
- G01F23/22—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water
- G01F23/28—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring the variations of parameters of electromagnetic or acoustic waves applied directly to the liquid or fluent solid material
- G01F23/284—Electromagnetic waves
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
- G01F23/00—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
- G01F23/22—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water
- G01F23/28—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring the variations of parameters of electromagnetic or acoustic waves applied directly to the liquid or fluent solid material
- G01F23/296—Acoustic waves
- G01F23/2962—Measuring transit time of reflected waves
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- the present invention relates to a method for evaluating and correcting overall measurement signals of a measuring device, which works according to the transit time measurement method and which is used to determine the fill level of a medium in a container.
- Measuring devices are often used in automation and process control technology
- Measuring devices with the designation Micropilot or Prosonic are produced and sold, which work according to the runtime measuring method and serve to determine and / or monitor a fill level of a medium in a container.
- the transit time measurement method for example, ultrasonic waves are transmitted over
- Sound transducers emitted, furthermore microwaves or radar waves are emitted via an antenna or guided along a waveguide that projects into the medium. These emitted waves are reflected on the surface of the medium and received again as useful echo signals or useful echo waves after the distance-dependent transit time of the signal.
- the fill level of the medium in a container can be calculated from the transit time using the known propagation speed of the respective emitted waves.
- the runtime measurement method is basically carried out in two determination processes
- the first time-of-flight measurement method is the time difference measurement, which determines the duration of the time-of-flight of a transmitted high-frequency pulse signal for a covered distance.
- Another widespread determination method is the determination of the frequency difference of the continuously transmitted high-frequency signal, the transmission frequency of which, for example, changes continuously over time, in relation to the reflected, received high-frequency signal (FMCW - Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave or continuous wave method).
- FMCW Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave or continuous wave method
- the transmitted measurement signals form with the received useful echo signals an overall measurement signal, which may contain additional interference echo signals under real measurement conditions.
- These interference echo signals have various causes, such as:
- EP 1 069438 A1 proposes a method and a device which enable highly precise filling level measurement independently of interference signals and in particular independently of multiple reflections or multi-mode propagation.
- a correction procedure is used to determine and store a correction value from the difference between the amplitude distance value and the phase distance value for certain fill level values.
- the values are interpolated between two correction values of the determined level values. Using these correction values, any fill level can be determined with high precision regardless of multiple reflections and multi-mode propagation.
- a method for measuring the fill level is described using a transit time measuring device, in which the interference signals are corrected by subtracting an determined intensity value, the first interference signal that has occurred, from the overall signal.
- WO 03/016835 A1 also describes a method for evaluating measurement signals of a measuring device operating according to the transit time principle, in which a currently recorded measurement curve is compared with reference signal data. In comparison of the reference signal data to the currently recorded
- Measurement curve can be determined from the time shift of the corresponding interference and useful signals, a correction factor with which the desired level can be determined if the useful signal of the level is not available or cannot be evaluated.
- Limit curve come to rest.
- the description (FIGS. 2 and 3) also addresses the problem due to process-technical conditions that occur when measuring the transit time of waves in the container.
- the patent application proposes to install four limit switches at different heights of the container in addition to the fill level measuring device, which enable the limit curve to be corrected or compared to the process-related changes in the container.
- This integration of limit switches has the disadvantages that the additional limit switches cause increased costs for the entire measurement set-up and that the installation of the limit switches in the container wall introduces additional internals as interference elements that can influence the measurement signal through reflected interference echo signals.
- the invention has for its object an improved and more accurate
- the object is achieved according to the invention by a method for evaluating and correcting overall measurement signals of a measuring device, which operates according to the transit time measurement method and which is used for determining the fill level of a medium in a container, that emits measurement signals in the direction of the medium during a measurement cycle are reflected and received on a surface of the medium as useful echo signals or on a surface of an interference element as interference echo signals, that from the high-frequency total measurement signal, consisting of the superimposition of the transmitted measurement signals, the reflected useful echo signals and the interference echo signals , 1 a sequential scanning generates a low-frequency intermediate frequency signal that from the intermediate frequency signal at least one raw echo curve or digitized envelope curve, which is dependent on the transit time or the running distance, is determined that the interference echo signals in the raw echo curve e or the digitized envelope curve are determined and stored in a current static reference curve, that in the case of a modification of at least one process-technical condition in the container and / or a modification of at least one measurement-technical condition
- This method makes it possible to react to the modifications of process conditions and the modifications of the measuring conditions of the measuring device and thereby to optimize the determination and measurement of the fill level of a medium in the container.
- the following procedure is used for this purpose: A measuring signal is sent from a measuring device via a transmitting and receiving unit and is reflected on the surface of the medium as a useful echo signal and, for example, on the interference elements as an interference echo signal.
- the total measurement signal is created by superimposing the transmitted measurement signal, the useful echo signal and, if applicable, the interference echo signals.
- the low-frequency signal embfre ⁇ is generated from the total measuring signal by means of a signal sampling circuit.
- a measuring signal is generated and transmitted, and a scanning signal with a somewhat lower pulse repetition frequency is generated or the scanning signal is generated in a phase-modulated manner with respect to the transmitted measuring signal.
- the lower-frequency intermediate frequency signal is generated in that the total measurement signal and the sampling frequency signal are fed to a frequency mixer.
- the lower-frequency intermediate frequency signal has the same profile as the overall measurement signal, but is stretched compared to the overall measurement signal by a time expansion factor which is equal to the quotient of the pulse repetition frequency of the measurement signal and the frequency difference between the two
- Frequencies of the scanning signal and the measuring signal With a pulse repetition frequency of a few megahertz, a frequency difference of a few hertz and a microwave frequency of a few gigahertz, a frequency of the intermediate frequency signal of less than 100 kHz is generated.
- an analog raw echo curve is generated, which corresponds to the analog intermediate frequency signal resulting from averaging over a few overall measurement signals. If digital values are used in the following process steps, a digitized envelope or envelope is determined from the analog intermediate frequency signal by rectification, optionally logarithming and digitizing the analog intermediate frequency.
- a static reference curve is generated from the envelope curve in the empty container, the so-called empty echo curve or empty function, to which a certain offset is added to the amplitude values of the empty echo curve; alternatively, this offset from the Subtracted amplitude values of the envelope for further signal processing.
- the static reference curve records particularly well the static or temporally stable interference echo signals from fixed interference elements, for example installations in the container. With the static reference curve, interference echo signals can thus be masked out from the envelope curve or the raw echo curve. If the measurement situation in the container or process area changes or, for example, the filter parameters of the measuring device are modified, the static reference curve must be adapted to the changed conditions. Since these changes or modifications to the process and measurement conditions have an influence on the overall measurement signal and correspondingly on the envelope, for example by changing the position or shape of the envelope and the useful echo signals or interference echo signals, these influences must also in. the static reference curve. Otherwise - as possible examples - the modified useful echo signal could be masked out from the unmodified static reference curve or a modified false echo signal could come to lie above the unmodified static reference curve and thus be regarded as a useful echo signal.
- an evaluation curve is generated by a smoothing method from the raw echo curve or digitized envelope.
- the evaluation curve is generated by a smoothing process, which always represents a mathematical filter function of the digitized envelope.
- the smoothing is performed by using a filter function with a window function, e.g. a moving average with a certain window width.
- these smoothing methods usually have the disadvantage that the curve shape is changed greatly and in particular the signal width of the echo signals is broadened, since the averaging width often has to be set very wide so that no artifacts are obtained.
- the evaluation curve hides interference echo signals particularly well, which are statistical in nature and can arise, for example, from the filling of the tank, from stirring the medium and from turbulent medium surfaces.
- Echo signals are formed by the evaluation line.
- the evaluation curve forms a reference line for the evaluation or evaluation of the envelopes, which reacts to the modifications of the process-technical and measurement-technical conditions.
- This requirement on the evaluation curve is achieved by smoothing with the Window filter function of the sliding minimum fulfilled.
- the window filter function of the sliding minimum has the advantage over other window filter functions that the setting of the window width of the filtering does not have such a large impact. has the measurement result.
- the evaluation curve predominantly shows the signal components caused by changes in the process conditions in the container.
- Another additional variant of the solution according to the invention provides that the smoothing method is implemented by a mathematical filter function of the moving minimum with a subsequent filter function of the moving average with exponential factors. Due to the determination of the evaluation curve by the window filter function of the sliding minimum, jumps can occur in the generated evaluation curve, which are caused by the filtering of the sliding minimum
- Measurement signal can be determined.
- the static reference curve is generated periodically or event-controlled from a current empty echo curve, which is determined from the raw echo curve or the digitized envelope curve in the empty container.
- the interference echo signals are determined in the static reference curve. It is therefore necessary to measure these interference echo signals in a first measurement in the empty container, so that on the whole
- the interference echo signals can be determined and saved.
- a preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention provides that the static reference curve when the container is not empty in the area above the fill level of the medium is determined periodically or event-controlled from a current partial empty echo curve and in the area below the fill level of the medium * a static reference curve generated during previous measurement cycles is determined periodically or event-controlled, and that the current partial empty echo curve is represented at least by the area A of the raw echo curve or the digitized envelope curve from the transmission of the measurement signals to the reflection of the echo signal of the fill level of the medium. If the container is partially filled with the medium, only the partial empty echo curve of area A above the surface of the medium can be determined, since the measurement signal is usually completely on the surface of the medium is reflected and the interference elements below the fill level of the medium are hidden in the overall measurement signal.
- a difference curve be generated and stored on the basis of a difference formation or correlation calculation between the evaluation curve and the static reference curve.
- the judges are
- Deviations or curve difference values of the curve points between the current evaluation curve and the current static reference curve are determined and stored.
- the formation of a difference curve determines and stores the relationship between the temporally stable interference echo signals in the current measurement situation. If the current measurement situation changes due to modifications of process or measurement conditions, this change is determined by the current evaluation curve.
- An expedient embodiment of the method according to the invention is that the process-technical condition involves a temporal change in the measurement situation in the container, that the static reference curve is matched to the current, temporal change in the measurement situation in the container and a current relative reference curve is determined. Due to the situation that the static reference curve, which represents only an instantaneous value of the measurement situation in the container at the time of the recording, is based on the changes over time
- a relative reference curve is calculated that takes into account the changes in the measurement situation over time.
- the current relative reference curve is formed from an addition of the evaluation curve and the stored, current difference curve or the stored difference curve from previous measurement cycles.
- the relative reference curve is calculated from the stored difference curve or the stored difference values, which were determined currently or in a previous measurement cycle, and the current evaluation curve. Since the evaluation curve is recalculated in each measurement cycle and adapts to the measurement situation in the container, the relative reference curve reacts to changes in the measurement situation over time or modifications to the process conditions.
- An expedient alternative exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention consists in that the modification of the technical condition involves a change in the filter parameterization of the measuring device, and.
- the static reference curve is generated independently of the current filter parameterization of the measuring device. If the filter parameters of the curve filters are changed, the curve shape or position of the filtered envelope curves or filtered raw echo curves no longer matches the static reference curve or limit curve generated in a previous measurement cycle. However, the static reference curve is made from an unfiltered
- Envelope or unfiltered raw echo curve generated this is independent of the Eilterparametem. And can be processed in a later process step signal technology.
- an advantageous embodiment of the solution according to the invention is that the independent reference curve is determined by filtering the static reference curve or the relative reference curve with the current parameter settings of a filter, with which the raw echo curve or the digitized envelope curve is also processed. Because the current envelope curve or the current raw echo curve and the static reference curve or relative reference curve are processed periodically or in an event-controlled manner using the same filter parameter, a modification of the filter parameters affects both in the same way.
- a particularly advantageous development of the solution according to the invention proposes that the current static reference curve and the current difference curve are determined in the measurement cycle of the commissioning of the measuring device and are stored in a memory.
- the curve values of the static reference curve and / or the difference curve stored in previous measuring cycles are used, if no modifications of the process-technical conditions compared to the previous measuring cycle have taken place.
- the measurement cycle is continually processed anew, and the history values or curves of previous measurement cycles are supplemented or overwritten periodically or event-controlled. However, if there is no change in the measuring situation in the container If the comparison to the previous measurement cycle is carried out, the stored history values or curves of past measurement cycles of the static reference curve and the difference curve can be used; otherwise a new static reference curve and difference curve are generated.
- a further advantageous embodiment of the invention is that the masking algorithm is carried out by forming a difference and / or calculating the correlation of the independent reference curve with the envelope curve or raw echo curve.
- Various masking algorithms can be used to mask out the interference echo signals. Forming a difference or calculating correlation is a simple way of masking out the interference echo signals in the envelope curve or the raw echo curve, but other algorithms, such as e.g. Calculations of correction values are used in the method according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a measurement setup of the measuring device on a
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the inventive method of the first
- FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of the method according to the invention of a measuring cycle during operation of the measuring device
- Fig. 4 is a diagram with a suppression of false echoes according to the methods of the prior art.
- Fig. 5 is a diagram with a suppression of false echoes according to the inventive method.
- FIG. 6 shows a diagram with an evaluation of the envelope curve by an evaluation curve according to the method according to the invention.
- a measuring device 1 is mounted on a container 3 in a nozzle 12, which determines the fill level 6 of a medium 4 in the container 3 according to the transit time measuring method.
- Interfering elements 7 are, for example, an agitator, a cooling tube coil and a limit level measuring device built into the container wall, but there are also other interfering elements 7, which are not explicitly shown in the drawing, which can influence the measurement.
- the transmitting and receiving unit 2 is designed as a horn antenna, however, any known transmitting and receiving unit 2, such as planar antennas, rod antennas, parabolic mirror antennas, microwave conductors, sound transducers, and optical transmission and reception elements, can be used.
- a fieldbus 10 For communication with remote measuring devices 1 or a control center, a fieldbus 10 is provided, which works according to the usual communication standards, such as Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus-PA, and is designed, for example, in a two-wire technology.
- the supply of the measuring device 1 with energy can, in addition to the energy supply of the measuring device 1 via the fieldbus 10, take place by means of a separate supply line 11.
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the method according to the invention in the commissioning mode.
- This commissioning mode has the function of determining all reference values or reference curves LE (n) or TLE (n), statRef (n), Diff (n) and storing them in a memory 9.
- a measurement signal MS (n) is emitted and on the surface 5 of the medium 4, the measurement signal Ms (n) is transmitted as a useful echo signal NES (n) and on the surface 8 of interference elements 7 as interference echo signals SES ( n) reflected.
- a sequential sampling in the second method step generates a time-stretched intermediate frequency signal ZF (n) from the overall measurement signal, from a superimposition of measurement signal MS (n), useful echo signal NES (n) and interference echo signal SES (n).
- a third method step S3 an averaged raw echo curve RE (n) or a rectified, digitized envelope curve HK (n) is determined from the time-stretched intermediate frequency signal ZF (n).
- a smoothing method or a mathematical filter function such as the window function of the sliding minimum
- an evaluation curve BK (n) is formed from the envelope curve HK (n) or the raw echo curve RE (n) and in a memory 9 saved.
- a fifth method step S5 the empty echo curve LE (n ⁇ is determined in an empty container 3. If the container 3 is partially filled with a medium 4, only a partial empty echo curve TLE (n) can be used to cover the empty area of the container 3 to characterized to the surface 5 of the medium 4.
- the empty echo curve LE (n) contains the static interference echo signals SES (n) from interference elements 7 which are located in the container 3.
- a difference curve Diff (n) is generated by subtracting the stored static reference curve statRef (n) and the evaluation curve BK (n).
- this difference curve Diff (n) the difference is determined and stored, which the static interference echo signals SES (n) to the evaluation curve BK (n) has. Since the evaluation curve BK (n) is newly determined in each measurement cycle Mzyk (n) from the envelope curve HK (n) or the raw echo curve RE (n) and this curve reacts to changes in the process conditions, one of the current evaluation curve BK ( n) dependent static reference curve statRef (n) created.
- a time-stretched intermediate frequency signal ZF (n) is generated from the overall measurement signal GS (n), from which a digitized envelope curve HK ( n) or a raw echo curve RE (n) is determined.
- a current evaluation curve BK (n) is determined and stored.
- the empty echo curve LE (n) is stored as the static reference curve statRef (n) in a sixth method step S6a or a subrange of the static reference curve statRef (na) generated in a previous measuring cycle Mzyk (na) or in the commissioning mode is overwritten by the partial empty echo curve TLE (n).
- An event that can trigger such an action of a new determination of a partial echo curve TLE (n) is, for example, a decreasing fill level of the medium, which was determined in previous measurements. If no new empty echo curve LE (n) is to be recorded, a static reference curve statRef (n-a) from previous measurement cycles Mzyk (n-a) is loaded from the memory 9 in the sixth method step S6b.
- a relative reference curve relRef (n) is formed.
- This relative reference curve combines the advantages of the evaluation curve BK (n) that the evaluation curve BK (n) reacts to temporal changes in the process-technical conditions in the container 3, with the advantage of the static reference curve statRef (n) that interference echo signals SES (n) from, for example, interference elements 7 can be determined in container 3 in this curve.
- the changes in the metrological conditions such as the filter parameters, have an immediate effect on the relative reference curve relRef (n) and the envelope curve HK (n) or raw echo curve RE (n), both are processed or metrologically processed in the same way in a tenth process step S1 filtered with the same filter parameters.
- the filtered, independent reference curve unRef (n) removes the interference echo signals SES (n) from the echo curve E (n).
- IaFig ... 4 is a diagram with two envelopes HK (n). shown that after one out. known methods have been determined.
- the time t or the distance x of the measurement signal in the container 3 is plotted on the abscissa axis, and the ordinate axis contains the amplitude value Amp of the envelope HK (n) of the total measurement signal GS (n).
- the diagram shows two envelope curves HK (n): a first envelope curve HK (n-a) shows the measurement result of a previous measurement cycle 'Mzyk (n-a) and a second envelope curve HK (n), which is caused by changes in the process engineering conditions, e.g. Formation of the medium on the wall of the container 3 or the state before and after the container 3 is filled, an increase or an increase compared to the first envelope curve HK (n)
- the diagram also shows two evaluation curves BK (n), which were determined from the respective envelope curve HK (n) using a mathematical filter function - the moving average gMean (n). It can be seen that the evaluation curve BK (n) is due to the increase in the envelope curve HK (n) and thus the
- statRef (n-a) was generated in a previous measurement cycle Mzyk (n-a) from the envelope curve HK (n-a) and was saved. In the current
- FIG. 5 shows a diagram with two envelope curves HK (n), which were determined by the method according to the invention.
- the same envelope curves HK (n) and evaluation curves BK (n) of the moving average gMittel (n) were used as in FIG. 4 of the previous measurement cycle Mzyk (na) and the current measurement cycle Mzyk (n).
- the independent reference curve unRef (n) the interference echo signal SES (n) is masked out in the second envelope curve HK 2 (n) in the method according to the invention.
- the un- dependent reference curve unRef (n) adapts to the modification of the current evaluation curve BK (n) and thus reacts to changes in process engineering
- the current evaluation curve BK (n) was determined by a mathematical. Moving minimum filter function generated.
- the evaluation curve BK (n) has increased
- the evaluation curves BK (n) and BK (na) have the advantage that the smoothing method according to the sliding minimum does not cause a signal broadening of the useful echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n) and a kind of baseline of the useful echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n).
- FIG. 6 shows a diagram with a third envelope curve HK (n), which is evaluated according to the method according to the invention by means of the fifth evaluation curve BK (n).
- The,. smoothed fifth weighting curve BK (n) was generated by a mathematical filter function of the moving minimum followed by filtering with a filter function of the moving average with exponential factors (gmeans (n)).
- the evaluation curve BK (n) has the advantage over the evaluation curves BK (n) and BK (na) in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, as already described, that the smoothing method does not broaden the usefulness of the signal after the sliding minimum.
- Echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n) causes and forms a kind of baseline of the useful echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n).
- Echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n) causes and forms a kind of baseline of the useful echo signals NES (n) or the interference echo signals SES (n).
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