Design, Fabrication and Testing of an Integrated Microfluidic Platform for Water Quality Testing

Please enable javascript in your browser.

Mortazavi, Mohammad Ali | 2017

491 Viewed

Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 49688 (08)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor(s): Saeedi, Mohammad Saeed
Abstract:
Nowadays environmental issues are of great importance and one of the most paramount issues is the quality of water, because clean water is vital to our existence. Besides different methods for water purification, water quality testing is a useful and needful tool. Traditional methods for determination of water quality parameters are mainly expensive, time consuming and require highly trained staff. In this study, we have described a centrifugal microfluidic platform (Lab- on – a- CD) for simultaneous determination of different physical and chemical parameters including Nitrite, Free Chlorine and pH. All of the processes from sample injection to detection are integrated on this low-cost and fast platform. This water analysis platform uses Paired Emitter Detector Diodes (PEDD) for detection. The microfluidic disc and the rotating and detection platform are designed and fabricated and finaly tested using drinking water samples. The results seem to be acceptable in comparison with commercial water analysis kits
Keywords:
Water Quality ; Colorimetric ; Microfluidic System ; Water Testing ; Micrototal Analysis Systems ; Lab-on-a-CD (LOCD)

No TOC