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Field Monitoring of Atmospheric Icing Events - A Case Study

Authors:
Adeel Yousuf
Pavlo Sokolov
Muhammad Shakeel Virk

Keywords: Atmospheric icing; Meteorological data; Icing sensor; ISO-12494.

Abstract:
Icing at high altitudes is a major concern for energy sector and infrastructure development. Many icing models exist to predict and analyse icing conditions based on physical or analytical models. This paper presents a field study of meteorological icing events to estimate the Liquid Water Content (LWC) and droplets Median Volume Diameter (MVD), based on ice load from a single cylinder ice collector instead of using multi cylinder ice collector. In this study, ISO 12494 is used to analyse the data from a field ice monitoring station installed in Arctic region of northern Norway. This meteorological station consists of various icing sensors, weather sensor and web camera. Multiple icing events are recorded and analysed with a focus to estimate LWC and MVD using accreted ice mass from single cylinder ice collector. It is noted that accuracy for MVD and LWC estimation can be improved by using smaller time windows of icing events.

Pages: 22 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: November 14, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-917-1

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021