%0 Conference Paper %A Lim, L.G. %A Tang, T.B. %D 2017 %F scholars:8828 %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %K Air; Capacitance; Electrodes; Finite element method; Liquids; Two phase flow; Water supply systems, Air-water; Capacitance sensors; Gas liquid flows; linearity; sensitivity, Void fraction %R 10.1109/ICITEED.2016.7863245 %T Design of concave capacitance sensor for void fraction measurement in gas-liquid flow %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/8828/ %X Void fraction is an important parameter to be measured in gas-liquid flow. Several designs of two-electrodes capacitance sensor had been analyzed and optimized for void fraction measurement. The conventional two-electrode concave capacitance sensor showed high sensitivity but it was also the most affected by air-water distribution. Thus far, only two-electrodes concave design had been discussed. In this paper, the concave design is divided into two-, four-and six-electrode using finite element method. The sensitivity of the sensor, effect of air-water distribution and linearity of response are analyzed and compared. The numerical results showed that four-electrode concave sensor is more suitable than the conventional two-electrode for void fraction measurement in gas-liquid flow. © 2016 IEEE. %Z cited By 4; Conference of 8th International Conference on Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ICITEE 2016 ; Conference Date: 5 October 2016 Through 6 October 2016; Conference Code:126635