GC-QEPAS: A Mems-Enabled Portable Trace Chemical Sensor for Safety & Security Applications

Publication date: 23 Giu 2019

ConferenceSource: LEGACY

This paper reports on a portable selective sensor for trace levels of hazardous vapors, which combines a two stage purge and trap vapor pre-concentration system, a MEMS gas-chromatographic (GC) separation column and a miniaturized quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) detector. This is the first demonstration of a miniaturized QEPAS device used as spectroscopic detector downstream of a FAST-GC separation column, demonstrating two-dimensional selectivity and enabling real-world analyses in dirty environments with response time of a few minutes. Furthermore, the integrated sensing system was specifically designed to be rugged and suitable to be deployed on unmanned robotic ground vehicles.

Publisher
IEEE
Origin
2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII)
Legacy ID
6e6b6396572306a0c67d579d525526b0
Biblio references
Pages: 1365-1368