TY - GEN
T1 - Monitoring of environmentally hazardous exhaust emissions from cars using optical fibre sensors
AU - Lewis, Elfed
AU - Clifford, John
AU - Fitzpatrick, Colin
AU - Dooly, Gerard
AU - Zhao, Weizhong
AU - Sun, Tong
AU - Grattan, Ken
AU - Lucas, James
AU - Degner, Martin
AU - Ewald, Hartmut
AU - Lochmann, Steffen
AU - Bramann, Gero
AU - Merlone-Borla, Edoardo
AU - Gili, Flavio
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Results are presented for on board sensing of the Gases NO, NO2, SO2 and CO2. The optical fibre sensor was connected downstream of the Diesel Particle Filter (DPF) of a Fiat Croma and the measurements from the optical fibre sensors were recorded simultaneously using high specification reference instrumentation mounted in the boot of the car. In this way the results from the optical fibre sensors and the reference instrumentation could be directly compared. The results from the optical fibre sensors indicate that they are capable of measuring single ppm values of NO, NO2 and SO2 as required by the EURO IV standards and CO2 up to a concentration of 15% which is more than adequate for in car monitoring. The optical fibre sensors therefore performed well when compared to the reference instrumentation in tests conducted on a rolling road and during "free driving" on an urban road.
AB - Results are presented for on board sensing of the Gases NO, NO2, SO2 and CO2. The optical fibre sensor was connected downstream of the Diesel Particle Filter (DPF) of a Fiat Croma and the measurements from the optical fibre sensors were recorded simultaneously using high specification reference instrumentation mounted in the boot of the car. In this way the results from the optical fibre sensors and the reference instrumentation could be directly compared. The results from the optical fibre sensors indicate that they are capable of measuring single ppm values of NO, NO2 and SO2 as required by the EURO IV standards and CO2 up to a concentration of 15% which is more than adequate for in car monitoring. The optical fibre sensors therefore performed well when compared to the reference instrumentation in tests conducted on a rolling road and during "free driving" on an urban road.
KW - In-fibre Bragg grating temperature sensor
KW - Mid-infrared gas detection
KW - Optical fibre sensor
KW - UV gas detection
KW - Vehicle emission detection
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-70550-5_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-70550-5_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50649094484
SN - 354070549X
SN - 9783540705499
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 238
EP - 247
BT - Embedded Computer Systems
T2 - 8th International Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2008
Y2 - 21 July 2008 through 24 July 2008
ER -