Optical Spectroscopy for Biofuel Composition Sensing

Journal article (2016)

Authors

L.M. Middelburg Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
G. de Graaf Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
M. Ghaderi Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
A. Bossche Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
J. Bastemeijer Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
J.H. Visser Ford Motor Company
Rick Soltis Ford Motor Company
R.F. Wolffenbuttel Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
Research Group
Electronic Instrumentation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2016 L.M. Middelburg, G. de Graaf, M. Ghaderi, A. Bossche, J. Bastemeijer, J.H. Visser, R.E. Soltis, R.F. Wolffenbuttel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.144
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Published Date

04-01-2016

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Instrumentation

Abstract

The optical absorption of water-containing bio-fuel is investigated as a parameter to determine the gasoline content of this fuel. Optical measurements reveal that gasoline shows an interesting and useful spectrum with typical absorption behavior in the UV range between 230 and 300 nm. This result indicates that significant information can be obtained to determine the gasoline concentration in bio-fuel by UV absorption spectroscopy. A concept for a low-cost measurement system in the fuel line is presented, by implementing a LVOF in combination with a wide-band light source and detector arrays.