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16 March 2015 Assessment of fiber optic sensors for aging monitoring of industrial liquid coolants
Christos Riziotis, Alexandros El Sachat, Christos Markos, Pantelis Velanas, Anastasia Meristoudi, Aggelos Papadopoulos
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Proceedings Volume 9359, Optical Components and Materials XII; 93591Y (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079988
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Lately the demand for in situ and real time monitoring of industrial assets and processes has been dramatically increased. Although numerous sensing techniques have been proposed, only a small fraction can operate efficiently under harsh industrial environments. In this work the operational properties of a proposed photonic based chemical sensing scheme, capable to monitor the ageing process and the quality characteristics of coolants and lubricants in industrial heavy machinery for metal finishing processes is presented. The full spectroscopic characterization of different coolant liquids revealed that the ageing process is connected closely to the acidity/ pH value of coolants, despite the fact that the ageing process is quite complicated, affected by a number of environmental parameters such as the temperature, humidity and development of hazardous biological content as for example fungi. Efficient and low cost optical fiber sensors based on pH sensitive thin overlayers, are proposed and employed for the ageing monitoring. Active sol-gel based materials produced with various pH indicators like cresol red, bromophenol blue and chorophenol red in tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS), were used for the production of those thin film sensitive layers deposited on polymer's and silica's large core and highly multimoded optical fibers. The optical characteristics, sensing performance and environmental robustness of those optical sensors are presented, extracting useful conclusions towards their use in industrial applications.
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Christos Riziotis, Alexandros El Sachat, Christos Markos, Pantelis Velanas, Anastasia Meristoudi, and Aggelos Papadopoulos "Assessment of fiber optic sensors for aging monitoring of industrial liquid coolants", Proc. SPIE 9359, Optical Components and Materials XII, 93591Y (16 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079988
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KEYWORDS
Liquids

Sensors

Fiber optics sensors

Silica

Polymers

Optical fibers

Polymer optical fibers

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