Fiber optic sensor array for the fluorimetric detection of heavy metals

Eberhard Mueller-Ackermann, Ulrich Panne, Reinhard Niessner

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Abstract

A fiber optic sensor array for the time-resolved, laser-induced fluorimetric detection of heavy metals is presented. Design considerations and a performance evaluation for the laser module, based on a pulsed nitrogen laser, and the detector module, based on an intensified gated charge transfer device (CCD) camera, are given. For preliminary investigations a simple probe with a 30 m fiber bundle connected to seven 'bare-fiber' sensors has been constructed. Seven commercially available chelators were employed: Indo-1, Fura-2, BTC, Quin-2, 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid (HQS), Calcein and Calcein Blue. A matrix formalism for a simple image analysis and multivariate calibration (PLS2) was developed and tested for the determination of mixtures with Zn, Cd, Cu and Ni.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)182-189
Number of pages8
JournalAnalytical methods & instrumentation
Volume2
Issue number4
StatePublished - 1995

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