What we do!

Applications

Seeing inside pipes, into vessels, through opaque barriers and weighing without touching, using non intrusive electromagnetic measurements such as Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT), Magnetic Inductance Tomography (MIT), Electrical Velocity Tomography (EVT), and other novel techniques

Research

Atout is committed to research in, and the development of, advanced non-intrusive electromagnetic measurement systems based on Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT), Magnetic Inductance Tomography (MIT), Electrical Velocity Tomography (EVT) and other novel techniques.

We provide bespoke solutions for some of the most difficult measurement problems in many industry sectors including food, energy, oil & gas, aerospace and defense.

Consultancy

Atout undertakes a wide range of consultancy projects in the application and use of non-invasive electromagnetic measurement techniques and fluid dynamics. We have the expertise to answer both your technical and engineering questions, along with commercial and market considerations. Key areas of technical know-how include Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT), Magnetic Inductance Tomography (MIT), Electrical Velocity Tomography (EVT), fluid dynamics and multiphase flow metering. We also have broad knowledge of many industry sectors, particularly Oil and Gas, aerospace, and scientific instruments.

Archives for Applications

New ECT Research System

New ECT Research System

October 14, 2019

Our new APL-C-900 ECT research system has just been upgraded and the performance specification updated. Contact us to get a copy. APL-C-900 Base System The APL-C-900 base system is required for all Atout ECT systems. It incorporates the power supply and ethernet communication bus and includes the control PC (laptop) and the powerful range of APL software including: Data acquisition (real-time) software: • multi-frequency operation 1MHz, 2.5MHz, 5 MHz square wave, • acquire and display capacitances in fF in real-time, • save data in .bcp format and .csv format, • capable of undertaking calibration in rig without sensor removal, • save and load calibration files as required.
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Smart Tanks for Space*

Smart Tanks for Space*

October 4, 2019

Atout Process, in collaboration with ArianeGroup, and DLR are very pleased to announce the first results from a full scale CFC Smart Tank section. In a world first, the primary Smart Tank measurement, Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) has been successfully scaled up to 1m diameter for spacecraft applications. Ground based testing anticipates a target value down to 0.1%, in real time, for all fill levels, with sloshing propellant. The project has also successfully demonstrated gauging with tanks that include internal equipment, and has shown measurement of liquid nitrogen. Smart Tanks are being developed to provide reliable measurement of propellant mass
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New paper published on mass flowrate measurement

New paper published on mass flowrate measurement

February 18, 2014

The Journal of Measurement and Control has published some of Atout's work in its February 2014 edition. See http://mac.sagepub.com/content/47/1/19.long for the full paper.
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Electronic sight gauge

Electronic sight gauge

Sight glasses or sight gauges are used in many industries to keep an eye on what is going on in the pipe during an industrial process.
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Predicting wind turbine performance

Predicting wind turbine performance

September 3, 2012

Our client planned to install a novel wind turbine on a building. How much energy could it produce? How would they know what it actually produced after installation?
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ECT in multiphase flow research

ECT in multiphase flow research

August 22, 2012

Electrical capacitance tomography can be used as a research tool as well as an industrial flowmeter. We have Tomoflow research systems available for sale and hire.
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Guide to the Measurement of Force

Guide to the Measurement of Force

This guide aims to help anyone wishing to measure force in any industrial or laboratory environment.
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Mass flow rate measurement

Mass flow rate measurement

February 27, 2012

The Tomoflow mass flowmeter can measure the mass flowrate of dry solids, thus avoiding the need to have loss-in-weight feeders or needing to interrupt the flow to weigh batches.
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