A review of automatic coal volume measuring technologies

¹ Jiangsu Frontier Electric Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211102, China
² Southeast University Jiangbei New Area Innovation Institute, Nanjing 210096, China

^* Corresponding author: chengli@seu.edu.cn

Abstract

In coal-fired power plants, how to timely inventory coal storage, in order to optimize the coal stock, and improve coal blending operation, and then carry out economic dispatch scientifically and reasonably, has always been an important topic. The traditional way of artificial method has big error, high cost and serious waste of resources. Ultrasonic measurement technology is greatly affected by time difference and dust. Measurement technology based on computer vision requires interpolation to fit the correction model. The above methods all have large measurement errors and have been eliminated by the market. This paper mainly introduces coal measuring technologies based on laser and uav tilt photography which have been researched and applied more recently. Their respective installation methods, characteristics and applicable working occasions are analyzed. They have the common characteristic that the 3d coordinate point cloud data of coal yard surface needs to be solved before the 3d model of coal yard can be generated and the coal storage amount can be calculated. In the case that the 3d coordinate point cloud data of coal yard of power plant cannot be obtained directly, 3d reconstruction can be carried out by using 2d images of coal yard in coal report, or by using neural network model, and then the coal volume can be checked. This research idea is of great significance to realize effective and accurate supervision of coal storage in power plants..