On Aug 26, 2007, at 6:31 PM, R.C.Macaulay wrote:
Horace wrote,
The idea is to apply a very sharp square wave to a long thin tube of
liquid material and measure the waveform that comes out the other
end. It is then just a matter of building a database using samples
of known materials. It might be useful as a cheap preliminary
screening method for some kinds of water pollution.
Howdy Horace,
Interesting idea you have for a "receptive spectrometer".
Suggest some parameters and I will get one on our instrument guys
to build one. We would use the guts of something we have laying
around and see where it leads . We have some 5/8" od x .035 grade
2 titanium tubing that could work,
The tubing has to be an insulator. I used tygon tubing and loaded it
with a peristaltic pump.
You are correct about water pollution applications. The industry
will transition to radical new water treating technologies within 5
years and we don't have the instruments for the technology..One of
the tasks involve transmutaton of certain nitrogen compounds that
otherwise present troublesome obstacles to destruction.
Richard
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
