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Process measurement technology
for bath monitoring in surface technology

 

Scientific focus:

 

handmessgeraet.jpgIn machinery and equipment for wet- and electro-chemical processes exists a large discrepancy between the high level of manufacturing automation (transport, handling) and the insufficient automation level of the corresponding technology (process monitoring and control). The optimization of manufacturing processes in terms of economic and environmental process control in surface technology requires the demand-based dosing of process chemicals. The precondition for this is a continuous monitoring of the concentration of quality-determining bath constituents (acids, alkalis, salts, organics). Currently applied monitoring techniques such as titration, chromatography or spectroscopy are error-prone laboratory methods or require expensive specialized equipment.

 

 

These shortcomings can be eliminated through the development and deployment of a new generation of process measurement technology based on hydrogel sensors. Novel constructive and technological solutions for the first time allow direct concentration measurements and a simple online-monitoring of process baths in surface technology. The research objective is to gain the necessary knowledge for an efficient product development of industrial-suited hydrogel sensors.

 

 

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Transducer principle "Thickness Shear Resonator"

Structure of the Sensor Head

 

 

Fields of research:

  • Measurement procedures for the monitoring of chemical concentrations in fluids
  • Fundamentals of process measurement technology based on hydrogel sensors
  • Application-specific solutions for the surface technology

 

Tasks for Research Internships and Master Theses; SHK-Jobs

Industry partner: SITA Messtechnik GmbH

 

 

Publications:


  • M. Windisch, K.-J. Eichhorn, J. Lienig, G. Gerlach, L. Schulze:
    Paradigm Change in Hydrogel Sensor Manufacturing: From Recipe-Driven to Specification-Driven Process Optimization [pdf, DOI]
    Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems, no. 5, pp. 39-53, Feb. 2016.
  • M. Windisch, K.-J. Eichhorn, J. Lienig, R. Schulze:
    Optimized Manufacturing of Industrial Hydrogel Sensors [pdf, DOI]
    AMA SENSOR 2015 - 17th International Conference on Sensors and Measurement Technology, Nürnberg, 19.-21.05.2015, ISBN: 978-3-9813484-8-4
  • M. Windisch:
    Applikationsspezifische Hydrogelsensoren für die Konzentrationsüberwachung nasschemischer Prozesse [pdf, DOI]
    VVD 2015 Verarbeitungsmaschinen und Verpackungstechnik, Dresden, 12.-13.03.2015
  • M. Windisch, T. Junghans:
    Innovative Hydrogel Sensor Solution for Process Monitoring [pdf, DOI]
    ScieConf 2014, Zilina (Slovakia), 09.-13.06.2014, ISBN: 978-80-554-0891-0
  • M. Windisch, T. Junghans:
    Hydrogel Sensor Solution for the Selective Concentration Monitoring of Divalent Metal Ions
    The 15th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 2014), Buenos Aires, 03.2014
  • M. Windisch:
    Hydrogelsensoren für die Prozessmesstechnik [PDF]
    7. Tagung Feinwerktechnische Konstruktion, Mechatronik, 122. Jg., 1-2.2014, S. 11.
  • M. Windisch, T. Junghans:
    Hydrogel Sensors for Process Monitoring [DOI]
    Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 77 (2013) S. 71-76, ISBN: 978-3-908158-63-9
  • M. Windisch, T. Junghans:
    Innovative Hydrogel Sensor Solution for Process Monitoring [pdf, DOI]
    IMCS 2012 - The 14th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors , 05.2012, S. 1660 - 1671, ISBN: 978-3-9813484-2-2
  • D. Schümann, M. Windisch:
    Einfache Messung der Konzentration von Badinhaltsstoffen. Hydrogelsensoren zur Prozessüberwachung [pdf, DOI]
    Dresdner Transferbrief 1.10, TU Dresden Forschungsförderung / Transfer TechnologieZentrumDresden GmbH / BTI Technologieagentur Dresden GmbH /
    GWT-TUD GmbH, 04.2010, S. 8 - 9

 

Contact:

 

Dipl.-Ing. Markus Windisch

PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
 

 

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Last modified: 20.12.2013