Water security: Continuous monitoring of water distribution systems for chemical agents by SERS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6540, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Inscore, Frank ^a   Shende, Chetan ^a   Sengupta, Atanu ^a   Farquharson, Stuart ^a  

^a Real Time Analyzers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical agents; CWA; Hydrolysis; Raman spectroscopy; SERS; Water security

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENTS; MAP DISTRIBUTION; WATER SECURITY;

CHEMICAL WARFARE; HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 35649004497     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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