scholarly journals Real-Time Thickness Measurement of Marine Oil Spill by Fiber-Optic Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiting Yin ◽  
Shaohuang Chen ◽  
Renliang Huang ◽  
Heng Chang ◽  
Jiayue Liu ◽  
...  

Rapid detection of marine oil spills is becoming increasingly critical in the face of frequent marine oil spills. Oil slick thickness measurement is critical in the hazard assessment of such oil leaks. As surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors are sensitive to slight changes in refractive index, they can monitor offshore oil spills arising from significant differences in the refractive index between oil and water. This study presents a gold-film fiber-optic surface plasmon resonance (FOSPR) sensor prepared by polydopamine accelerated wet chemical plating for rapid and real-time measurement of oil slick thickness. We examined oil thickness detection at two interfaces, namely, water-oil and air-oil. Detection sensitivity of −1.373%/mm is obtained at the water-oil interface in the thickness range of 0–5 mm; detection sensitivity of −2.742%/mm is obtained at the air-oil interface in the thickness range of 0–10 mm. Temperature and salinity present negligible effects on the oil slick thickness measurement. The fabricated FOSPR sensor has the ability to detect the presence of oil as well as quantify the oil thickness. It has favorable repeatability and reusability, demonstrating the significant potential for use in the estimation of marine oil slick thickness.

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (16) ◽  
pp. 20975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iltai (Isaac) Kim ◽  
Sokwon Paik ◽  
Yang Bae Jeon ◽  
Jae Sung Park ◽  
Hyunjung Kim ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wida Yanti ◽  
Asih Melati

<p><br />Halal foods and medicines are an absolute daily needs for the Muslim community in Indonesia. Therefore the authority institutions in indonesian goverment should ensure the availability of this. It is of course inseparable from the role of higher education through the development of its technology to develop halal detection of foods and drugs. This study is an effort to contribute to the Halal Research Center of UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta through the biosensor development in halal detection foods and medicines based on biosensor SPR. This device using graphene materials to improve the detection sensitivity of pork gelatin material that is likely contained in foodstuffs and medicine. From analytical calculation and computation, enhancement of the SPR biosensor performance by involvement graphene it was shown through the ATR (Attenuated Total Reflectance) reflective curve. The result of this results was found the enhancement of the sensitivity 2,86 %.</p><p>Keyword: Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), Porcine Gelatin, Graphene, ATR</p>


Nanophotonics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1017-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youjun Zeng ◽  
Rui Hu ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Dayong Gu ◽  
Jianan He ◽  
...  

AbstractSurface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor is a powerful tool for studying the kinetics of biomolecular interactions because they offer unique real-time and label-free measurement capabilities with high detection sensitivity. In the past two decades, SPR technology has been successfully commercialized and its performance has continuously been improved with lots of engineering efforts. In this review, we describe the recent advances in SPR technologies. The developments of SPR technologies focusing on detection speed, sensitivity, and portability are discussed in details. The incorporation of imaging techniques into SPR sensing is emphasized. In addition, our SPR imaging biosensors based on the scanning of wavelength by a solid-state tunable wavelength filter are highlighted. Finally, significant advances of the vast developments in nanotechnology-associated SPR sensing for sensitivity enhancements are also reviewed. It is hoped that this review will provide some insights for researchers who are interested in SPR sensing, and help them develop SPR sensors with better sensitivity and higher throughput.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merv Fingas

&lt;p&gt;Abstract: The thickness of oil spills on the sea is an important but poorly studied topic. Means to measure slick thickness are reviewed. More than 30 concepts are summarized. Many of these are judged not to be viable for a variety of scientific reasons. Two means are currently available to remotely measure oil thickness, namely, passive microwave radiometry and time of acoustic travel. Microwave radiometry is commercially developed at this time. Visual means to ascertain oil thickness are restricted by physics to thicknesses smaller than those of rainbow sheens (~3 &amp;#181;m), which rarely occur on large spills, and thin sheen. One can observe that some slicks are not sheen and are probably thicker. These three thickness regimes are not useful to oil spill countermeasures, as most of the oil is contained in the thick portion of a slick, the thickness of which is unknown and ranges over several orders of magnitude. There is a continuing need to measure the thickness of oil spills. This need continues to increase with time, and further research effort is needed. Several viable concepts have been developed but require further work and verification. One of the difficulties is that ground truthing and verification methods are generally not available for most thickness measurement methods.&lt;/p&gt;


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
benamar bouhafs ◽  
Abdellatif CHERIFI

Abstract This work addresses a theoretical analysis on optical planar surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors. The proposed plasmonic system consists of an active left-handed material (LHM) stacked between a glass-prism and a sensing environment. To evaluate the limits of the surface sensitivity related to SPR excitation, two arrangements between previous media are separately investigated for comparison. Employing the transfer matrix method (TMM), angular TM-reflectance calculations and intrinsic sensing characteristics of previous arrangements, have been investigated with the impact of thicknesses and refractive index (RI) of the media involved. We found the suitable prism material RI, and the preferential arrangement between LHM and sensing environment allowing, thus the increase of the detection sensitivity of SPR excitation. The results of TM-reflectance obtained by varying the sensing environment RI, indicate the ability of the configuration to support an surface plasmon (SP) mode, with a tunable Q-factor from 72 to 748. In addition, distinct optical functionalities achieved with the proposed mono-layer LHM system exhibiting a single SPR mode, and multiple resonant oscillations, are highlighted on both the effects of RI and structure ‘thicknesses. Finally, the relationships between characteristics of TM-reflectance spectra versus the performance parameters are analytically derived.


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