1. Development of an instrumentation system for measurement of degradation of lubricating oil using optical fiber sensor
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S. Laskar and S. Bordoloi
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010302 applied physics ,Materials science ,Optical fiber ,business.industry ,Instrumentation ,Photoresistor ,Detector ,Electrical engineering ,Physics::Optics ,01 natural sciences ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,law.invention ,010309 optics ,Data acquisition ,Control and Systems Engineering ,law ,Fiber optic sensor ,0103 physical sciences ,Calibration ,Optoelectronics ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Refractive index - Abstract
This paper presents an instrumentation system to measure the degradation in lubricating oil using a bare, tapered and bent multi-mode optical fiber (BTBMOF) sensor probe and a temperature probe. The sensor system consists of (i) a bare, tapered and bent multi-mode optical fiber (BTBMOF) as optical sensor along with a laser source and a LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) as detector (ii) a temperature sensor (iii) a ATmega microcontroller based data acquisition system and (iv) a trained ANN for processing and calibration. The BTBMOF sensor and the temperature sensor are used to provide the measure of refractive index (RI) and the temperature of a lubricating oil sample. A microcontroller based instrumentation system with trained ANN algorithm has been developed to determine the degradation of the lubricating oil sample by sampling the readings of the optical fiber sensor, and the temperature sensor.
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- 2016
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