학술논문

Optical gas monitoring in sea water: Robust reliable and highly flexible
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 MTS/IEEE OCEANS - Bergen OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE. :1-6 Jun, 2013
Subject
Geoscience
Sea measurements
Prototypes
Fluorescence
Optical sensors
Optical variables measurement
Geologic measurements
oceanography
aquaculture
optical
chemical
sensor
Language
Abstract
This paper describes our progress towards the development of field deployable pCO2 and NH3 in water measurement technologies. The fluorescence lifetime based pCO 2 technology described here has a wide dynamic range of 10 2 −5×10 4 microatmospheres and has undergone numerous field trials that indicate suitability to a wide range of short and long term monitoring applications. The spectrophotometric NH 3 technology described is in an earlier stage of development, and the characterization experiments performed to date show that the technology responds reversibly to ammonia concentrations at the low ppb level and could therefore be applicable to a wide range of applications within aquaculture and oceanography. The pCO 2 and NH 3 sensor prototypes used in these investigations are based on the same mechanical platform, that in future could also form the basis for other water quality monitoring technologies.