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Sensing fresh water contamination using UV fluorescence methods

  • University of Bedfordshire
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Abstract

Water quality monitoring requires characterization of a range of organic and inorganic components present within the sample. We present here initial findings in the design of a novel system to detect contaminants by characterizing their characteristic fluorescence fingerprints in a 3-dimensional excitation emission matrix. This is a proof of principle for a system that would then use principal component analysis to diagnose the individual contaminants present in real world samples. A high-resolution fluorescence spectrometer was used to characterize components and potential pollutants in water samples along with samples taken at two different times from the feed into a lake. Several types of fluorescent signals were observed including the commonly used UV `protein-like' fluorescence as well as humic-like or yellow substances fluorescence. Development of this method will lead to a technique that will allow rapid identification of possible contaminants in water samples.

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Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Conference contribution
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 07/01/2016

Publication status

Published - 07/01/2016

Place of publication

IEEE

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781479982028

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622074
  • Scopus: 84963574812
  • ORCID: /0000-0003-2170-5248/work/180105484

Host publication title

2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings

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