Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology

Kerrouche, Abdelfateh; Lithgow, Jorden; Alwis, Lourdes

Abstract

Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be a ongoing concern. The act to provide clean water by filtration is effective although has concerns. Previous methods for detection and removal of pathogens consist of a high test time, a high sample consumption, very expensive and require specialist operators. This paper investigates the design of an active microfluidic technology to prototype a smart monitoring system to detect waterborne pathogen movement. Results provide areas of opportunities to fabricate microchannels with a high recovery rate (88%) to embedded sensors e.g. optical fibersensors to detect pathogens at certain flow rates. Major advantages defeat drawbacks by reducing test time and sample consumption whilst being less expensive.

Citation

Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., & Alwis, L. (2020). Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology. In G. Cranch, A. Wang, M. Digonnet, & P. Dragic (Eds.), Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Edition. https://doi.org/10.1364/OFS.2020.Th4.6

• Conference Name: OFS 2020 (27th International conference on Optical Fiber Sensors)
• Conference Location: Washington, DC, US
• Start Date: Jun 8, 2020
• End Date: Jun 12, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Mar 2, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Mar 9, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 9, 2020
• Book Title: Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Edition
• ISBN: 978-1-55752-307-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OFS.2020.Th4.6
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2611916