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- Title
Feasibility Study for the Development of a Low-Cost, Compact, and Fast Sensor for the Detection and Classification of Microplastics in the Marine Environment.
- Authors
Cocciaro, Bruno; Merlino, Silvia; Bianucci, Marco; Casani, Claudio; Palleschi, Vincenzo
- Abstract
The detection and classification of microplastics in the marine environment is a complex task that implies the use of delicate and expensive instrumentation. In this paper, we present a preliminary feasibility study for the development of a low-cost, compact microplastics sensor that could be mounted, in principle, on a float of drifters, for the monitoring of large marine surfaces. The preliminary results of the study indicate that a simple sensor equipped with three infrared-sensitive photodiodes can reach classification accuracies around 90% for the most-diffused floating microplastics in the marine environment (polyethylene and polypropylene).
- Subjects
PLASTIC marine debris; MICROPLASTICS; FEASIBILITY studies; DETECTORS; CLASSIFICATION; POLYPROPYLENE; PLASTICS
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2023, Vol 23, Issue 8, p4097
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s23084097