Sensoring

Sensoring is playing an increasingly more important role in all kinds of processes. By specialization, miniaturization and innovation a growing number of parameters become measurable more easily, quickly and accurately. With these parameters processes become more verifi able and controllable, and optimization can follow. From all existing themes within Wetsus the need to gain insight by use of sensors in the factors which influence the processes is expressed.

Whether it is the rate of biofi lm growth in pipes or the presence of particular bacteria in water, an adequate measuring is needed but not always available. This cry for new sensors that check the specific processes can be heard in the new theme of sensoring where (existing) techniques will be looked for which by Wetsus research can be transformed into new applications.

Within a few years, by fundamental research on the basis of already existing sensor techniques, Wetsus expects to develop new sensors which find their basis on the need from actual practice. Within the theme it is important to defi ne the demands that must be made on the sensors to be developed. It turns out already a lot of different requirements must be met, which sometimes confl ict with each other. Size, in/offl ine, invasive/noninvasive, accuracy, cost and numbers seem to contradict each other when the occasion arises.