Automated online and real-time monitoring of environmental risk
Tutor/a - Director/a
Estudiante
Rovira Segarra, Josep
Tipo de documento
Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
Fecha
2018
rights
Acceso abierto
Editorial
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
UPCommons
Resumen
Currently the environment degradation due to human activities created the need of monitoring the
industrial waste waters, rivers and oceans for fast, on site and real-time pollutants detection. The
present works intends to optimize a heavy metals detection system based on different Ion Selective
Electrodes (ISE) implanted in a Sequential Injection Analysis (SIA) equipment for self-preparation of
chemical patterns, calibration and sample analysis in a single equipment. The goal is to calibrate,
optimize and automate different ISE implanted in a single unit, usually described as an Electronic
Tongue (ET) in the literature, due to its comparison with biological tongue functionality. In this work
the setup of the ISEs within an automated system, the calibration of the electrodes and the
determination of metals was achieved successfully. Also, the improvement of quality signal is
achieved by identifying the noise sources. The study of an online monitoring system is investigated.
The Secure File Transfer Protocols (SFTP) are considered as a suitable option for online monitoring
and real time analysis with the Risk Assessment Data Base (RAdb), developed by the Norwegian
Institute for Water Research (NIVA).
