| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S29713/01 |
| Title: |
Advanced architectures for future generation ultrasonic process instruments |
| Principal Investigator: |
Kalashnikov, Dr A |
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| Department: |
Sch of Electrical and Electronic Eng |
| Organisation: |
University of Nottingham |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
18 March 2004 |
Ends: |
17 March 2007 |
Value (£): |
134,768
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
VLSI Design |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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Ultrasonic spectrometry has considerable potential to monitor and ultimately control a wide range of chemical processes in many product sectors - speciality chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, paints, pigments, and a range of polymer based products including aerospace and automotive structural thermosets, as well as novel materials which may be of biological origin. The present generation of ultrasonic instruments is difficult to apply to process plant for reasons of cost, bulk, (high) operating voltages and data acquisition and processing times. This proposal is for a step change in technology which will result in new instrumentation architectures with wide application and which will provide the basis for future adoption of e-technologies in plant monitoring and control. The aim is to establish fundamentally new ways of designing and producing ultrasonic monitoring instruments based on the concepts of very large scale integration (VLSI) and incorporating telemetry. This will be based on comprehensive modelling of candidate systems and their performance in relation to noise induced errors, signal types and processing methodologies, operating voltages, and system complexity, size and cost. A working version of the best generic architecture will be built as a set of custom chips and will be evaluated on pilot plant.
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ftp://128.243.76.5/PUBLIC%20DISK/ak1/RA1360.htm |
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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk |