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

Publication date: 1 Giu 2019

JournalSource: OPENALEXOpenAlex type: articleClosed Access
Authors: Sandro Mengali, Ivan Elmi, Luca Masini, Filippo Bonafè, Fabrizio Tamarri, Michele Sanmartin, Roberto Viola, Nicola Liberatore, Stefano Zampolli

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.

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OpenAlex
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1365-1368
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