OVERVIEW

This class answer to the request for in-line control technique assessing the quality of products and processes. In particular, fiber optical spectroscopic techniques are demonstrated to be suitable for.

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, the student will possess basic know-how to use non-destructive optical methods to probe properties of polymers, catalysis, and industrial processes.

Particular emphasis will be devoted to remote sensing techniques in the UV-Vis, NIR e MIR spectral range.

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of polymer properties and thermodynamics of industrial processes

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures delivered by Power Point presentations available to students on AulaWeb. Laboratory experiments in-line and off-line on MIR-NIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy to understand main properties of polymer materials.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme/Contents (synopsis):

The electromagnetic spectrum and fundamental quantities, basic optics (refraction, reflection, transmission, polarization, interference, diffraction, gratings, optical fibers). Fundamentals light-matter interaction (UV-Vis absorption, NIR, MIR, photoluminescence, Raman). Basic information obtained in different spectral ranges with particular emphasis for the comparison between MIR and NIR.  Principles of common spectrometers in particular compact and transportable systems allowing collection and detection of signals by optical fibers. Use of the spectroscopic techniques (in particular those based on remote sensing) to probe the quality of industrial processes.

Lab: Examples of main sampling collection techniques (transmission, reflection, ATR, DRIFT, PAS, Raman) for on-line process control. Interpretation of spectroscopic data.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Textbooks/Bibliography

• Notes provided by the teacher.

•N.B, Colthup, L.H. Daly, S.E. Wiberley, Introduction to Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, Academic Press.

•H.W. Siesler, Y. Ozaki, S. Kawata, H.M. Heise, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: principles, instruments, applications, Wiley (3rd reprint, 2006); ISBN: 3-527-30149-6.

•J. Workman, L. Weyer, Pratical Guide to Interpretative Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, CRC Press (2008, Boca Raton - FL, USA).

•Internal Reflection Spectroscopy, edited by F.M. Mirabella, Marcel Dekker Inc. (1993, New York, USA).

•Optical Fiber Sensor edited by K.T.V. Grattan and B.T. Meggit,  Kluwer Academic Publisher (1999, Dordrecht, The Netherlands).

•J.W. Niemantsverdriet, Spectroscopy in catalysis, Wiley-VCH.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARINA ALLOISIO (President)

DAVIDE COMORETTO (President)

DARIO CAVALLO

PAOLO MORETTI

ALBERTO SERVIDA

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The student discusses an original power-point presentation or written relation on an item related to the course. The student select the item more suitable to his/her aptitudes/needs with the help of the teacher among those reported in the scientific literature and/or provided on aula-web (usually one or two papers). The presentation have to be suitable for understanding by students of the same level.

The student must show to have understood fundamentals related to the topics and to use the suitable technical vocabulary (up to 15/30). Moreover, he/she must show understanding of the investigation technique reported (up to 10/30). The quality of presentation/relation will be evaluated up to 5/30.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Goal of the exam is to verify the achievement of the class aims. If aims are not achieved, the student is invited to make a deeper study and to ask for additional explanation by the teacher bepore repeating the exam. In order to guarantee the correspondence between aims and exam topics, the detailed program is uploaded to AulaWeb and described at the beginning of the course.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

For any further information, students are kindly invited to directly contact the teacher by email (davide.comoretto@unige.it), telephone (0103538736/8744) or visiting him in his office/lab.