P2.9.7 Gas chamber design for multi chemical sensors

Event

14th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2012
2012-05-20 - 2012-05-23
Nürnberg/Nuremberg, Germany

Chapter

P2.9 Technology and Application

Author(s)

R. Rousier, S. Bouat, T. Bordy, H. Grateau, M. Darboux - CEA-LETI, Grenoble (France), P. Montméat - CEA, DAM, Monts (France)

Pages

1714 - 1717

DOI

10.5162/IMCS2012/P2.9.7

ISBN

978-3-9813484-2-2

Price

free

Abstract

We present the design of a fluidic gas multi-sensors chamber to be integrated in a portable device for multi-modal detection and identification of gas. The multi-sensors chamber has 14 sensors; 4 fluorescent sensors, 2 Quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) and 8 surface-acoustic-wave sensors (SAW). The weight of the chamber is about 500 g with a 9 ml fluidic volume. We used the fluidic simulation to optimize the flow inside the chamber. The chamber design has been experimentally validated with gas test bench. This work, initially developed for civilian safety applications, can be extended to others applications such as environmental monitoring to detect and identify gas nature.