Smart Sensors for Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Subhas C. (Editor), Mason, Alex (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, 4
• Subjects: Engineering.; Hydrogeology.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Water pollution.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.

Sensors are being utilised to increasing degrees in all forms of industry.  Researchers and industrial practitioners in all fields seek to obtain a better understanding of appropriate processes so as to improve quality of service and efficiency.  The quality of water is no exception, and the water i...

Table of Contents:

• Monitoring pollutants in wastewater: traditional lab based versus modern real-time approaches
• In situ phosphate monitoring in seawater: today and tomorrow
• Fluorescence and phosphorescence chemical sensors applied to water samples
• Monitoring wastewater treatment using voltammetric electronic tongues
• Automatic water and wastewater quality monitoring systems
• Development and deployment of a microfluidic platform for water quality monitoring
• Nitrate anion sensors, their applications and a case study of their status in waste water from selected areas of coastal Guyana via a spectrophotometric method
• The selection of novel planar electromagnetic sensors for the application of nitrate contamination detection
• Microwave sensors for real-time nutrient detection in water
• Remote Monitoring of Water Quality for Intensive Fish culture
• ICT as an enabler to Smart Water Management
• Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater.