Application of a long-period fibre grating-based transducer in the fuel industry

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Possetti, G R C ^a   Ccco, L C ^b   Yamamoto, C I ^b   De Arruda, L V R ^a   Falate, R ^c   Muller, M ^a   Fabris, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Fuel quality control; Long period grating

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FUELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TRANSDUCERS;

ETHANOL WATER MIXTURES; FUEL INDUSTRIES; FUEL QUALITY; HYDRATED ETHANOL; INTEGRATE SYSTEMS; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; LONG-PERIOD FIBRE GRATINGS; RADIAL BASE FUNCTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 63749113294     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/3/034012     Document Type: Article

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