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Optical Sensors for Water Monitoring

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 7952

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Klaus Koren

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Aarhus University Centre for Water Technology (WATEC); Department of Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: chemical sensors; optical sensors; oxygen sensors; environmental sensing; nanoparticles; bioanalytics
Dr. Silvia E. Zieger

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Aarhus University Centre for Water Technology (WATEC); Department of Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: environmental sensing; chemical sensors; optical sensors; multiparametric sensing; data analysis; biosensors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Water not only covers two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, it is also the basis for all life on this planet. Anthropogenic contamination and climate change, among other factors, are threatening the quality and availability of this important resource. The identification of relevant types of hazards at the appropriate temporal and spatial scale is crucial to detect their sources and origin, understand the processes governing their magnitude and distribution, and to evaluate their risks and consequences for preventing economic losses.

In order to monitor water quality in all sorts of aquatic environments in real-time, novel sensors are needed. Optical sensors have the potential to fulfill this need due to their high sensitivity and selectivity. The heterogeneity of aquatic environments (e.g., fresh water, marine) and concentration levels of various analytes found within the respective environments are challenging and demand continuous development.

In this Special Issue, we aim to bring together the latest developments within the field. We welcome all submissions dealing with optical sensing in aquatic environments including, but not limited to:

  • Marine or brackish waters;
  • Fresh water;
  • Waste water;
  • Drinking water.

In terms of analytes, we aim to cover the full spectrum that can be monitored using optical sensing technology, including:

  • Nutrients (e.g., NH4+, nitrate, phosphorous);
  • Ionic species;
  • Organic contaminants (e.g., pesticides, antibiotics);
  • Biological species (e.g., bacteria, toxic algae)

Dr. Klaus Koren
Dr. Silvia E. Zieger
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • aquatic environments
  • optical sensing
  • luminescence based sensors
  • chemical monitoring
  • label-free sensors

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Inland Lakes Mapping for Monitoring Water Quality Using a Detail/Smoothing-Balanced Conditional Random Field Based on Landsat-8/Levels Data
by Lifei Wei, Yu Zhang, Can Huang, Zhengxiang Wang, Qingbin Huang, Feng Yin, Yue Guo and Liqin Cao
Sensors 2020, 20(5), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20051345 - 29 Feb 2020
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The sustainable development of water resources is always emphasized in China, and a set of perfect standards for the division of inland water environment quality have been established to monitor water quality. However, most of the 24 indicators that determine the water quality [...] Read more.
The sustainable development of water resources is always emphasized in China, and a set of perfect standards for the division of inland water environment quality have been established to monitor water quality. However, most of the 24 indicators that determine the water quality level in the standards are non-optically active parameters. The weak optical characteristics make it difficult to find significant correlations between the single parameters and the remote sensing imagery. In addition, traditional on-site testing methods have been unable to meet the increasingly extensive water-quality monitoring requirements. Based on the above questions, it’s meaningful that the supervised classification process of a detail-preserving smoothing classifier based on conditional random field (CRF) and Landsat-8 data was proposed in the two study areas around Wuhan and Huangshi in Hubei Province. The random forest classifier was selected to model the association potential of the CRF. The results (the first study area: OA = 89.50%, Kappa = 0.841; the second study area: OA = 90.35%, Kappa = 0.868) showed that the water-quality monitoring based on CRF model is feasible, and this approach can provide a reference for water-quality mapping of inland lakes. In the future, it may only require a small amount of on-site sampling to achieve the identification of the water quality levels of inland lakes across a large area of China. Full article
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Bacterial Respiration Used as a Proxy to Evaluate the Bacterial Load in Cooling Towers
by Stepan Toman, Bruno Kiilerich, Ian P.G. Marshall and Klaus Koren
Sensors 2020, 20(21), 6398; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216398 - 9 Nov 2020
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Evaporative cooling towers to dissipate excess process heat are essential installations in a variety of industries. The constantly moist environment enables substantial microbial growth, causing both operative challenges (e.g., biocorrosion) as well as health risks due to the potential aerosolization of pathogens. Currently, [...] Read more.
Evaporative cooling towers to dissipate excess process heat are essential installations in a variety of industries. The constantly moist environment enables substantial microbial growth, causing both operative challenges (e.g., biocorrosion) as well as health risks due to the potential aerosolization of pathogens. Currently, bacterial levels are monitored using rather slow and infrequent sampling and cultivation approaches. In this study, we describe the use of metabolic activity, namely oxygen respiration, as an alternative measure of bacterial load within cooling tower waters. This method is based on optical oxygen sensors that enable an accurate measurement of oxygen consumption within a closed volume. We show that oxygen consumption correlates with currently used cultivation-based methods (R2 = 0.9648). The limit of detection (LOD) for respiration-based bacterial quantification was found to be equal to 1.16 × 104 colony forming units (CFU)/mL. Contrary to the cultivation method, this approach enables faster assessment of the bacterial load with a measurement time of just 30 min compared to 48 h needed for cultivation-based measurements. Furthermore, this approach has the potential to be integrated and automated. Therefore, this method could contribute to more robust and reliable monitoring of bacterial contamination within cooling towers and subsequently increase operational stability and reduce health risks. Full article
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