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Miniaturised Flame Ionisation Detector for Explosion Protection in Civil Sewerage Networks

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This work presents a new approach to enhance the civil safety by monitoring the civil sewerage networks to prevent formation of explosive atmospheres and thus enabling early initialisation of counter measures. For this approach a new system with a miniaturised flame ionisation detector (FID) as embedded sensor has been developed. The micro FID embeds the fluidic components, the micro burner, the electrical structures for ignition and ion current measurement, and resistive temperature measurement elements in one monolithic ceramic component. Characterisation of the micro FID revealed good sensor performance with high sensitivity and reduced gas consumption compared to conventional FIDs. Thus, this micro FID is an excellent choice for an embedded sensor in the context of monitoring the civil sewerage.

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Acknowledgments

This work is part of the project “FIDEX – Autonomer Mikroflammen-ionisations-detektor für den Explosionsschutz in zivilen Kanalisationsnetzen” and is financially supported by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF (#13N13271).

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  1. Krohne Innovation GmbH, Ludwig-Krohne-Str. 5, 47058, Duisburg, Germany

    Jan Förster & Christian Koch

  2. Krohne Messtechnik GmbH, Ludwig-Krohne-Str. 5, 47058, Duisburg, Germany

    Winfred Kuipers

  3. Fraunhofer Institue IKTS, Winterbergstr. 28, 01277, Dresden, Germany

    Christian Lenz & Steffen Ziesche

  4. VIA Electronics, Robert-Friese Str. 3, 07629, Hermsdorf, Germany

    Dominik Jurkow

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  1. ITET, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  2. Laboratoire d’Electronique, Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Sophia Antipolis, France

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  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Förster, J., Kuipers, W., Koch, C., Lenz, C., Ziesche, S., Jurkow, D. (2017). Miniaturised Flame Ionisation Detector for Explosion Protection in Civil Sewerage Networks. In: Magno, M., Ferrero, F., Bilas, V. (eds) Sensor Systems and Software. S-CUBE 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 205. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61563-9_14

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