DocumentCode :
3359841
Title :
Virtual instrument for water quality parameters measurement
Author :
Peixeiro, R. ; Postolache, Octavian ; Dias Pereira, J. Miguel
Author_Institution :
LabIM, Escola Super. de Tecnol., Senibal, Portugal
fYear :
2012
fDate :
25-27 Oct. 2012
Firstpage :
840
Lastpage :
844
Abstract :
Due to the nowadays demanding for the environmental concerns and the growing importance of the pollution reduction for a sustained development, the water quality monitoring it´s very important and useful to study the physical and chemical characteristics of all kind of water and essential to understand the needs to protect and recover the quality of one element which is vital to all of us and also all the beings who surround us. The present work has the target to develop a low cost virtual instrument for water quality parameters measurement. The developed system allows to measure three of the most important physical variables in water quality monitoring that are: electrical conductivity, temperature and turbidity. An important characteristic is the flexibility to add also other measurement channel without significant change of the system hardware component. Making measurements for several hours in remote locations is possible due to system autonomy provided by appropriate battery supply selection. The designed and implemented virtual instrument is characterized by accuracy that satisfied the application requirements of water quality assessment in rivers and estuaries.
Keywords :
chemical variables measurement; electrical conductivity measurement; electrochemical analysis; temperature measurement; turbidimetry; virtual instrumentation; water pollution measurement; water quality; chemical characteristic; electrical conductivity; measurement channel; physical characteristic; pollution reduction; virtual instrument; water quality monitoring; water quality parameter measurement; water temperature; water turbidity; Conductivity; Conductivity measurement; Electrodes; Software; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Environmental concerns; conductivity; low cost; prototypes; temperature; turbidity; virtual instrument; water quality monitoring;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2012 International Conference and Exposition on
Conference_Location :
Iasi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1173-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICEPE.2012.6463829
Filename :
6463829
Link To Document :
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