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A 12-Electrode ECT Sensor with Radial Screen 
for Fluid Diagnosis 

 

Sidi M. A. Ghaly  

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia | Ecole 
Normale Supérieure, Mauritania 
smghaly@imamu.edu.sa 
 
Mohammed Shalaby 

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
myshalaby@imamu.edu.sa 
 
Mohammad Obaidullah Khan  

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
okkhan@imamu.edu.sa 
 
Khaled A. Al-Snaie 

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
kalsnaie@imamu.edu.sa 
 
Asad Ali Mohammed  

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
asad207@imamu.edu.sa 
 
Faisal Baloshi 

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
fambaluchi@sm.imamu.edu.sa 

 

Abdalmajid Imad 

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
aimlathkani@sm.imamu.edu.sa 

 

Majdi Oraiqat 

Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia   
mtoraiqat@imamu.edu.sa 

Received: 9 May 2023 | Revised: 24 May 2023 and 27 May 2023 | Accepted: 29 May 2023 

Licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license | Copyright (c) by the authors | DOI: https://doi.org/10.48084/etasr.6030 

ABSTRACT 

In this paper, the use of radial screens in an Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) sensor is 

investigated with the aim of resulting in higher-resolution images. The effect of the screens on the quality 

of the reconstructed images was simulated. 12-electrode ECT sensors with and without screens were 

designed and tested. The capacitance between different electrode pairs was measured for two permittivity 

distributions. The obtained capacitance data were used to reconstruct images using the Projected 

Landweber Iteration algorithm based on linear and semi-linear ECT models. The sensitivity of the 

measurements and the accuracy of the obtained images for the ECT sensors with and without screens were 

analyzed. The main conclusion is that a little improvement in the quality of images can be achieved with 

the use of 12-Electrode ECT sensors with radial screen. 



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Keywords-ECT sensor; radial screen; permitivity; fluid dynamics; imaging sensitivity measurement  

I. INTRODUCTION  

There are many two-phase flow systems in the fields of 
electrical power generation industry, petroleum industry, 
chemical industry, and metallurgy industry. In the present time, 
the two-phase flow pattern recognition is mainly employed as a 
measuring tool for the flow pattern change criterion or the flow 
chart to diagnose the flow mode with flow parameters. 
However, due to the complex nature of the flow mechanism, 
the use of conventional detection techniques cannot match the 
large variety of the flow conditions. Electrical Capacitance 
Tomography (ECT) is a tomography technique developed for 
the industrial multiphase flow measurement systems. Different 
materials have different dielectric constants, which are used as 
a basic principle to calculate the spatial distribution of the 
dielectric constant inside a flow channel and to figure out the 
distribution of the working medium in the sensing zone by 
measuring the capacitance values between the electrodes fixed 
on the insulating surface of the channel [1-3]. Besides, ECT is 
a non-invasive technique, exhibiting features such as faster 
response, economical, being non-radioactive, so it is becoming 
an indispensable analysis tool in multiphase flow industry. 
With the increased popularity of ECT, one of the areas that 
need improvement is the relatively low spatial resolution and 
this is more pronounced on the pixels further away from the 
electrodes. This issue is closely related to the soft-field nature 
of the electric field.  

When an image is reconstructed, most algorithms use a 
matrix called sensitivity map in the inverse process, or in both 
the forward and inverse steps for an iterative algorithm, such as 
the well-known Landweber method [4-5]. Recently, a pre-
iteration scheme was developed that iteratively updates the 
sensitivity maps instead of the image, and then uses the final 
sensitivity map in real time ECT measurement [6]. This 
method offers fast image reconstruction speed while 
maintaining the same image quality as the Landweber 
algorithm does. In practice, the sensitivity maps are produced 
as the product of the inner electrode fields that are usually 
calculated by solving the Poisson equations for electric fields. 
The soft-field nature can therefore be inherited during the 
construction of the sensitivity map. Further, as the strength of 
the electrical field reduces, for the locations away from the 
electrodes, the sensitivity decreases correspondingly. To 
address such a weakness, different models have been proposed, 
such as the expanded sensitivity map [7], in which the 
sensitivity map elements can be produced based on a set of 
blocks of different sizes. The stability and quality of an image 
can be improved with the help of typical designed extended 
sensitivity maps. Also, there are other recommendations on the 
proper distribution of the image elements in the measurement 
domain, such as those proposed in [8], where a hierarchical 
mesh algorithm was demonstrated for ECT image 
reconstruction by locating progressively the boundaries by 
refining the mesh. At each step of the hierarchy the image was 
obtained using the Gauss–Newton (GN) algorithm or the 
Hierarchical Mesh Regularized Constrained Gauss–Newton 
(HM-RCGN) algorithm. These algorithms have two 
advantages: the speed of image reconstruction is significantly 

accelerated and the spatial resolution of the reconstructed 
images is enhanced. 

 

 
Fig. 1.  Cross sectional view of a typical 12-electode ECT 
system. 

 
Fig. 2.  A typical ECT system with 12 electrodes. 

For ECT sensors, the capacitance values are typically small, 
which requires mounting an earthed screen around the 
electrodes to eliminate problems related to parasitic 
capacitance variations that can affect the measurement. Also, 
the mechanical stability is an important factor in the ECT 
system. The electrodes are connected to the capacitance 
measurement system by coaxial connection cables. Thus, in 
this paper, a 12-electrode ECT sensor with radial screen for 
diagnosis of fluids was designed and tested. It was shown that 
it gives better performance in terms of image quality than the 
one without a radial screen. 

II. ELECTRICAL MODELING OF 12-ELECTRODE 
SENSOR WITH EARTHED SCREEN 

Let us consider an ECT sensor with 12 external electrodes 
with radial screen as shown in Figure 1. These electrodes can 
be developed with a flexible printed circuit board to a greater 
precision in its shape and size. In this case, as demonstrated in 
Figure 1, a 12-electrode sensor needs 66 independent 
measurements of electrode pairs as:1-2, 1-3, ..., 1-12; 2-3, 2-4, 
..., 2-12; ..., up to 11-12. The ECT systems directly utilize the 
"raw" capacitance values captured from the sensor to 
reconstruct images using recursive or iterative algorithms. One 
of the commonly used algorithms is the Linear Back-Projection 
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reconstruction. An LBP image is reconstructed by superposing 
the sensor sensitivity distribution maps for all electrode pairs 
by the corresponding measured changes in the normalized 
capacitance by properly weighting them. When the electrode 1 
is biased with a potential, the charge Q1j is generated on the 
electrodes j = 2, . . . N, that can be measured, Similarly, Q12, 
Q13, . . . , Q1,N, are repeated. Thereafter, electrode 2 is excited 
and the rest of the electrodes are grounded with potential 0 and 
the induced charges Q23, Q24, . . . , Q2,N are measured and 
tabulated. The measurement procedure is repeated until 
electrode N − 1 is energized or excited. Using the measured 
values of the charge, the inter-electrode capacitances Cij= Cji 
(with earthed screen) can be calculated using the definition of 
the capacitance [9-11]:  

��� = ���/Δ	��    (1) 
where Qij is the induced charge on the electrode j when the 
electrode i is energized or excited with a known value of 
voltage. Vij is the voltage between electrodes i and j (ΔVij = Vi – 
Vj). 

It is a known factor that the capacitance is dependent on the 
geometry of the electrode and the earthed screen. This can be 
determined once the size, screen diameter, and location of the 
electrodes and the permittivity distribution ε(x, y) is known. A 
change in the permittivity distribution effects the capacitance 
measurements and the values of capacitance change 
accordingly. The excitation switching of the electrodes in a 
sequence produce a rotating electric field inside the typical 
ECT sensor. It should be noted that the excitation potential is 
also time varying with a frequency around 1 MHz. For this 
surrounding situation and the dimension of the ECT sensor and 
its screen along with the wavelength involved, the electrostatic 
field theory yields the potential distribution φ(x, y) inside the 
ECT sensor [12-13]. On solving the Poisson’s equation, we get: 


��
, ��
��
, �� = 0      (2) 
For the boundary conditions applied on the ECT sensor 

headed by the measurement system, the potential distribution 
φ(x, y) can be computed. The electric field vector E(x, y) and 
the potential function φ(x, y) are related to each other by:  

��
, �� = −
��
, ��    (3) 
The charge on each of the electrodes, and the inter-

electrode capacitances, can be calculated using the definition of 
the capacitance and Gauss’s law based on the surface integral 
given by:  

Q�� = �∆��� � ���   
 

�     (4) 

D is the electric displacement defined by:  

! = "�
, ����
, ��      (5) 
The material inside the ECT sensor has a linear isotropic 

response [19]. Sj is a surface enclosing electrode j, and ds is an 
infinitesimal area on it. 

To solve the Poisson’s equation and to calculate the 
capacitances using Gauss’s law, a forward model is considered 
which shows well behaved and response. The verifications of 
this forward model against measurements exhibits that the 

predicted capacitances are very accurate. At the same time the 
permittivity sensitivity as observed in [14], the prediction error 
may be enlarged for adjacent electrodes, when a high 
permittivity material is surrounded in their vicinity. More 
information on the use of Finite Element Modelling (FEM) of 
ECT systems can be seen in [15-16]. 

 

 
Fig. 3.  Electrical modeling. 

Consider a model of measured capacitance Cm for one pair 
of electrodes with the effect of the earthed screen. This can be 
assumed as the combination of an internal capacitance Cx, two 
pipe wall capacitances Cw1, Cw2, an external capacitance Cex, 
and two stray capacitances Cs1, Cs2 as demonstrated in Figure 3 
The equivalent capacitance Cm can be calculated 
mathematically as:  

w x

w x

C C

m ex C C
C C


      (6) 

The values of Cex, Cw, and Cx can be obtained by filling a 
material of known relative permittivity r1 into the specimen 
pipe sensor. This procedure is repeated with another material of 
known relative permittivity r2 and the air. After this, by 
finding Cex and Cw, the internal capacitance with any fluid 
existing inside the region of interest in the PVC pipe can be 
obtained from the raw measured capacitance.  

III. SIMULATION OF THE 12-ELECTRODE ECT 
SENSOR WITH EARTHED SCREENS 

The simulation was conducted for a cross-sectional circular 
view point which can be a cylindrical container made up of 
insulating material. ECT is difficult to perform on metallic 
container as the metals leak the electrical charge all over the 
surface and allow making wrong assumptions. On an insulating 
frame, the electrodes are fixed, an earthed screen is mounted 
around them, and a voltage is applied to it when the current 
passes through the non-metallic cylinder from inside and 
through the fluid or gas. This makes a small charge to hold in 
the fluid or gas and creates a capacitance. When one of the 
electrodes is excited, the other 11 electrodes will act as 
grounded, and the 12-ECT will be like 11 capacitors along the 
surface of the cylinder. But since the permittivity and the 
voltage between the plates are very low and the distance 
between the electrodes is comparatively big, a very low 
capacitance could be measured. If the permittivity of the fluid 
or gas is known and its potential breakdown, an increase in 
voltage below the breakdown voltage can lead to a better 
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The 12-electrode ECT simulation was carried out in 
MATLAB. The simulation shows that with the existence of the 
earthed screen, the area of the circumference of the cross-
sectional area increases. As the number of electrodes is fixed, 
there will be a little improvement in the coverage of the region 
under investigation by means of the area for the number of 
capacitors used, improving the diagnosis of the flow medium in 
the pipes in the system [15]. The electric potential between the 
energized electrode 1 and grounded electrodes 2-12 are shown 
in Figure 4. Electrode 1 is energized at a low voltage of 0.02 V 
and the electrode 2 is grounded with some stray charge on it, as 
the metal electrodes cannot be charged after applying electric 
field. 

 

 
Fig. 4.  Sensitivity pattern when electric potential is applied between 
electrodes 1 and 2 at low intensity. 

(a) 

 

(b) 

 

Fig. 5.  Sensitivity pattern when the electric potential is applied between 
electrodes 1 and 11 at (a) normal and (b) low intensity. 

Similarly, electrode 1 is energized at a low voltage of 0.02 
V and the electrode 11 which has some stray charge on it, is 
grounded. The electrode potential for 1 and 11 is illustrated in 
Figure 5. This can be demonstrated for all combinations of 1 to 
12 electrodes in the ECT sensor. In the simulation, the first 
electrode is energized and other electrodes are kept at ground, 
this process is repeated for all electrodes to be energized one 
after the other in a cyclic manner, keeping the other electrodes 
grounded. With increase in the number of electrodes, the 
circumference of the pipe is more covered and a continuity of 
measurement is achieved near the inner surface area of the 
pipe. 

 

(a) 

 

(b) 

 

Fig. 6.  Sensitivity pattern map of the electric potential between electrodes 
(a) 1 and 2 and (b) 1 and 11. 

 
Fig. 7.  Summation of the sensitivity pattern due to electrode 1 for all 12 
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It is evident from the simulations that mounting an earthed 
screen covers a comparatively large area. It is also seen that the 
voltage drops very fast as it moves from one end of the 
diameter to the other, and the increased distance between the 
electrodes drops the voltage, but for the electrodes which are 
placed in adjustment to each other there is a good capacitance 
response. Thus, with an earthed screen, there will be a better 
accuracy towards the inner side of the pipe near the surface of 
the pipe compared to the center of the pipe where getting exact 
accuracy is difficult due to the low voltage measurement and 
thus the low capacitance measurement. The expected accuracy 
is more likely to increase with small cross-sectional area pipes 
compared to that of large cross-sectional area pipes in the 
system. 

IV. IMPLEMENTATION FOR SENSITIVITY 
MEASUREMENT 

The AC-ECT system comprises of hardware and software, 
software drivers, and ECTGUI. The hardware consists of a 
front-end unit with an internal power supply, and an NI DAQ 
board/card interfaced with each other. These are operated by a 
host laptop or desk top, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 8. Two 
NI DAQ units are employed: NI PCI-6024E DAQ board 
working with a desktop PC and NI PCMCIA 6062E DAQ card 
working with a laptop PC. Both NI DAQ units are connected 
via a 68-way ribbon cable with the same female connectors in 
the end connecting to the 19" Euro case, while a different 
female connector is used in the other end connecting to either 
the desktop PC or the laptop PC [17].  

 

 
Fig. 8.  Typical 12-electrode ECT sensor setup and ECT system. 

The experimental results using the 12-electrode ECT sensor 
with and without screen are presented in this section. By 
quantifying the sensitivity, the accuracy of the sensor depends 
not only on the physical dimensions of the electrodes, but also 
on the specifications of the earthed screen. If the tube wall is 
manufactured using dielectric material, the electrodes can be 
installed inside or outside it, whereas, if the wall is made up of 
conductive material, the electrodes can be mounted externally. 
In the present case, the proposed design is employing dielectric 
materials, hence the electrodes are put outside the pipe and the 
earthed screen is mounted around them, thereby availing the 
simplicity of the design. The choice of the number of 
electrodes and the outer screen depend on the value of the 
capacitance, the complexity of the circuit, and the data 
acquisition rate. In case of using more electrodes, the quality of 
the image would be better at the cost of increased difficulty in 
measuring capacitances. Commonly, the number of electrodes 

used is limited to 8 or 12 (in this article 12 electrodes are 
considered). A guard electrode is needed to improve the 
sensitivity measurement and to prevent the electric field from 
reaching the ground and the end of the measuring electrode. 
Also, they must be employed if the length of the measuring 
electrodes is less than twice the sensor diameter approximately. 
Further, it is essential to add a discharge resistor, in order to 
avoid the static charge and the damage of a measuring sensor, 
the resistor should be connected between each electrode and 
the driven guard and the ground [14]. The typical value of the 
resistance used is 1 MΩ. A photo shot of the typically 
developed prototype using 12 electrodes with earthed screen 
formed from a copper sheet which is bounded around the radial 
spacers is shown in Figure 8. 

The images were obtained using the 12-electrode ECT 
sensor having relatively long external measurement electrodes 
(length and width are 15 cm and 1.1 cm). The gap between the 
electrodes is 0.20 cm. The external circumference and the outer 
radius of the pipe are 15.6 cm and 2.48 cm. The inner pipe 
cross section area is 17.84 cm

2
 and the total volume of the ECT 

section (electrode region) is 17.84 cm
2
 × 15.6 cm.  

A. Sensitivity of the Obtained Image 

At first, in order to calibrate the typically designed sensor, 
two dielectric materials were taken, where the empty state is 
assumed to be lentils (density of lentils =46 kg/m

3
), and the full 

state is considered as air. Then, different amounts of lentils are 
introduced into the pipe where the air is surrounding the lentils. 
A set of measurements are obtained for each case. It can be 
observed that the smallest volume to be detected has a cross-
sectional area of 1.2 cm

2
 (volume = 18 cm

3
), and mass = 0.83 

g). 

TABLE I.  ECT IMAGES BASED ON DIFFERENT AMOUNTS 
OF LENTIL FILLING 

 
Images based on large 
amount of lentil 

Images based on small 
amount of lentil 

12-electrode 
sensor with 
radial screen 

  

12-electrode 
sensor without 
radial screen 

  
 

A figure of merit is proposed to describe the sensitivity [18] 
of the 12-electrode ECT sensor with and without a radial 
screen. A parameter is defined showing the minimum 
detectable value according to: 

PoS = &1 − ∆�(
)*+

),-,./ 
0 × 100        (7) 

where PoS is the Percentage of Sensitivity, ∆�(  is the 
difference between the dielectric constants of the full and 
empty state, 	23  is the minimum detectable volume of the 
object, and 	45467  is the total volume of the ECT sensor. In the 



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present case, lentil is the dielectric:  ∆�( = 6.  From the 
dimensions indicated above, and to calculate the sensitivity, 
referring to (7), PoS equals to 59.6% with a radial screen and to 
50.1% without radial screen. Table I illustrates the obtained 
images based on different amounts of lentil searching for the 
minimum detectable volume of the objects �	23 �.  
B. Image Accuracy  

In the beginning, the calibration of the sensor was 
performed to measure its accuracy and authenticity. It is 
achieved by taking two different dielectric materials with the 
empty state as air, and the full state as lubricating oil (density = 
823 kg/m

3
). The amount of lubricating oil introduced in the 

sensor pipe is such that when the pipe is kept horizontally, it is 
half filled with the lubricating oil. Figure 9 shows that the 
separation line between the lubricating oil and the air is 
deviating from a sharp line. The gradual change from blue 
color (air) to red color (lubricating oil) is an indication of the 
accuracy of the sensor with and without earthed screen and 
their difference. To quantify the accuracy of the ECT sensor, 
the parameter PoA (Percentage of Accuracy) is proposed as 
[18]: 

PoA = ;1 − <=>? @A=BC>?DD=EFG? H=FE?@?IJ × 100  (8) 

In the present case and from Figure 9, the PoA is equal to 
87%.  

Figure 9 illustrates the use of 12-electrode ECT sensors 
with and without an earthed screen in which line separation 
between the two different dielectric materials (lubricating oil 
and air) when the pipe is placed horizontally is demonstrated. 

 

 
Fig. 9.  The line separation between the two different dielectric materials 
with and without screen. 

V. DISCUSSION  

In this work, two new parameters, PoS and PoA, were 
defined with the aim to charactarize the quality of an ECT 
image using an 12-electrode ECT sensor with and without an 
earthed screen. From the conducted experiments, it is 
concluded that the use of outer earthed screen gives more 
accuracy and more sensitivity to the measurements. These 
conclusions were met while keeping the same gap between the 
electrodes and for the same cross-sectional area. The 
Percentage of Accuracy (PoA) with radial screen is found be 
equal to 87%, whereas, without radial screen it lies below 84%. 
The Percentage of Sensitivity (PoS) with a radial screen yields 
to be 59.6% and 50.1% without a radial screen.  

VI. CONCLUSION 

In this paper, simulations and practical measurements of an 
ECT sensor with 12 external electrodes with and without an 
outer screen were presented. From the simulations, it is evident 
that a mounted earthed screen covered a comparatively large 
area. It was also seen that the voltage drops very fast when 
moving from the one end of the diameter to the other. The 
experimental measurements were carried out on two different 
materials filling the space inside the pipe with different 
proportions in order to know the sensitivity of the 
measurements and the accuracy of the probe. The obtained 
images using the 12-electrode ECT sensor with and without an 
earthed screen, with a line separation between the two different 
dielectric materials gave a little improvement in the quality of 
the images produced by developed sensor with a radial screen. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

This project was funded by the National Plan for Sciences, 
Technology and Innovation (MAARIFAH) – King Abdulaziz 
City for Science and Technology – the Kingdom of Saudi 
Arabia, award number (14-ELE741-08). 

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