Investigation of binary liquid aqueous methanol and ethanol mixtures using meander-shaped fibre-optic evanescent-wave absorption sensors

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 359-362

  Fabian, Matthias ^a   Lewis, Elfed ^a   Newe, Thomas ^a   Lochmann, Steffen I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Hochschule Wismar   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; AQUEOUS METHANOL; BINARY LIQUIDS; BINARY-LIQUID MIXTURES; CORE DIAMETERS; DISTILLED WATER; ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; ETHANOL MIXTURES; EVANESCENT-WAVE FIELDS; FIBRE OPTIC; LIQUID MIXTURE; LORENTZ; LORENZ EQUATION; LOW COSTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; SENSING PROBE; WAVE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; BINARY MIXTURES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ETHANOL; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIQUIDS; METHANOL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 67649947130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2008.4716455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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