The Potential of Sensors and Biosensors for Integrated Process Control in Real-Time. Can They Survive the Environment?

The industry of tomorrow places a heavy demand on more efficient processes that performs in a more fluent cost-saving and sustainable way throughout the whole process production system. These industries need improvements in process monitoring and measurement that is the key for delivering better process control and therefore more sustainable processes. Innovations in process measurement are therefore needed to relate more closely to the full stream process environment to deliver better higher final quality products by allowing better process control and hence substantial cost reduction and a friendlier environment.

This will need a complete new approach for the different scenarios regarding the innovation, development, design, behaviour, implementation and application of sensor and biosensors. These type of measuring devices and probes should functioned in temperatures on a continuous basis for extended periods ranging from temperatures around

1000 ºC to room temperature and even below and from high pressures to normal pressures depending on the process production system. This talk will look and outlined different types of sensor and biosensor devices currently available and the potential to survive in the environment of integrated process control in real-time.

Acknowledgements

The present work was supported by the Romanian National Programme

PN II, Ideas, Contract Nr. 100/27.10.2011.