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Agbroko, Samuel O. and Covington, James A. (2017) A novel, low-cost, portable PID sensor for detection of VOC. In: Eurosensors 2017, Paris, France, 3-6 Sep 2017. Published in: Proceedings, 1 (4). ISSN 2504-3900. doi:10.3390/proceedings1040482
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1040482
Abstract
A low cost portable photoionization (PID) sensor was successfully designed and manufactured. Unlike existing commercial PID sensors, our device provides two outputs, one associated with the total chemical components and a second that provides some level of compositional information. We believe that this makes this sensor system more useful than a standard PID, with a similar, if not lower, cost point. Our PID sensor was tested with gas concentrations down to 2 ppm isobutylene. These results indicate that the limit of detection will be well below 1 ppm. Further detection tests were carried out with ethanol, acetone and isobutylene, which showed similar sensitivities. Compositional measurements were also undertaken and the results presented shows our sensor can discriminate successfully between low concentration isobutylene and 2-pentanone.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Engineering | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Volatile organic compounds -- Environmental aspects, Gas detectors -- Industrial applications, Photoionization of gases | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI AG | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2504-3900 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 August 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 1 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 482 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/proceedings1040482 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
| Title of Event: | Eurosensors 2017 | ||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
| Location of Event: | Paris, France | ||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 3-6 Sep 2017 |
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