Cargando…

Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing

Diesel fuel quality can be considered from many different points of view. Fuel producers, fuel consumers, and ecologists have their own ideas. In this paper, a sensor of diesel fuel quality type, and fuel condition that is oriented to the fuel’s consumers, is presented. The fuel quality types includ...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Borecki, Michal, Prus, Przemyslaw, Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6539829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31035629
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19091980
_version_ 1783422481658281984
author Borecki, Michal
Prus, Przemyslaw
Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L.
author_facet Borecki, Michal
Prus, Przemyslaw
Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L.
author_sort Borecki, Michal
collection PubMed
description Diesel fuel quality can be considered from many different points of view. Fuel producers, fuel consumers, and ecologists have their own ideas. In this paper, a sensor of diesel fuel quality type, and fuel condition that is oriented to the fuel’s consumers, is presented. The fuel quality types include premium, standard, and full bio-diesel classes. The fuel conditions include fuel fit for use and fuel degraded classes. The classes of fuel are connected with characteristics of engine operation. The presented sensor uses signal processing of an optoelectronic device monitoring fuel samples that are locally heated to the first step of boiling. Compared to previous works which consider diesel fuel quality sensing with disposable optrodes which use a more complex construction, the sensor now consists only of a capillary probe and advanced signal processing. The signal processing addresses automatic conversion of the data series to form a data pattern, estimates the measurement uncertainty, eliminates outlier data, and determines the fuel quality with an intelligent artificial neural network classifier. The sensor allows the quality classification of different unknown diesel fuel samples in less than a few minutes with the measurement costs of a single disposable capillary probe and two plugs.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6539829
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2019
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-65398292019-06-04 Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing Borecki, Michal Prus, Przemyslaw Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L. Sensors (Basel) Article Diesel fuel quality can be considered from many different points of view. Fuel producers, fuel consumers, and ecologists have their own ideas. In this paper, a sensor of diesel fuel quality type, and fuel condition that is oriented to the fuel’s consumers, is presented. The fuel quality types include premium, standard, and full bio-diesel classes. The fuel conditions include fuel fit for use and fuel degraded classes. The classes of fuel are connected with characteristics of engine operation. The presented sensor uses signal processing of an optoelectronic device monitoring fuel samples that are locally heated to the first step of boiling. Compared to previous works which consider diesel fuel quality sensing with disposable optrodes which use a more complex construction, the sensor now consists only of a capillary probe and advanced signal processing. The signal processing addresses automatic conversion of the data series to form a data pattern, estimates the measurement uncertainty, eliminates outlier data, and determines the fuel quality with an intelligent artificial neural network classifier. The sensor allows the quality classification of different unknown diesel fuel samples in less than a few minutes with the measurement costs of a single disposable capillary probe and two plugs. MDPI 2019-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6539829/ /pubmed/31035629 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19091980 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Borecki, Michal
Prus, Przemyslaw
Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L.
Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title_full Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title_fullStr Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title_full_unstemmed Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title_short Capillary Sensor with Disposable Optrode for Diesel Fuel Quality Testing
title_sort capillary sensor with disposable optrode for diesel fuel quality testing
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6539829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31035629
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19091980
work_keys_str_mv AT boreckimichal capillarysensorwithdisposableoptrodefordieselfuelqualitytesting
AT prusprzemyslaw capillarysensorwithdisposableoptrodefordieselfuelqualitytesting
AT korwinpawlowskimichaell capillarysensorwithdisposableoptrodefordieselfuelqualitytesting