Abstract
This paper introduces an in-line dye tracer experiment to measure the residence time functions in continuous concrete processing. These functions quantify the material-system interdependency and can be used to compare different material-system combinations and for quality and process control. A Rhodamine B solution was used as the tracer material and detected by measuring the color intensity using a digital image processing technique. The experiment was validated on a 3D concrete printing system by comparing the results of impulse, step-up and step-down inputs with different tracer quantities. The results show that a high signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained with low tracer concentrations. For the examined combination of material and system, an impact on the original process was only observed for the step-up inputs at high tracer quantities. It is concluded that the presented method is cost-effective and non-labor-intensive and, therefore, has the potential for wide adoption and integration in automated workflows.
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