A new monitoring system to measure metals dissolved in water by means of room-temperature phosphorescence optical fiber sensors

Author

Perez, Miguel A. ; Campo, Juan C. ; Alvarez, Juan C. ; Gonzalez, Manuela

Author_Institution

Oviedo Univ., Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1325

Abstract

In this paper a relatively simple, low-cost industrial prototype for measuring concentrations of metals dissolved in water is presented. The operation of this system is based on the measuring of the light emission intensity of the chemical sensors. This kind of system provides simultaneous on-line multiple measurements and it has major advantages over other present techniques, such as excellent sensitivity and stability, high precision and selectivity, good time response and low maintenance cost

Keywords

chemical sensors; fibre optic sensors; phosphorescence; chemical sensors; light emission intensity; low-cost industrial prototype; maintenance cost; metal concentrations; on-line multiple measurements; optical fiber sensors; room-temperature phosphorescence; selectivity; sensitivity; stability; time response; Area measurement; Chemical analysis; Chemical sensors; Costs; Monitoring; Optical fiber sensors; Phosphorescence; Pollution measurement; Temperature sensors; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928289

Filename

928289