Development of new methodology of design, analysis and applications of intelligent Micro and Nano-instrumentation supported in Nanobiotechnology Engineering for Industrial Automation

Abstract

Introduction− The present article shows the results of the research carried out in the project on design and development of new methodolo-gies for the design, analysis and application of intelligent micro and nano instrumentation supported in Nanobiotechnology Engineering by real time monitoring technology of the phenol content in industrial waste-water, duct line discharge flows, treatment tanks, open-air stabilization pools and water discharge as part of the challenge presented by Ecopet-rol on the need to decontaminate waste water at the Barrancabermeja Oil Refinery.Objective−The above proposal translates into a sensor network that guarantees the necessary redundancy for technical reliability, which in-cludes a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) equipped with a Redundant Control System (RCS), which ensures optimal operation of the instru-mentation implemented and also allows for a reduction in measurement time in each sampling sequence.Methodology− Through the detection of contaminants in real time, a network of sensors based on micro y_nanobioinstrumentation with elec-tronic nose, artificial tongue and spectrophotometric eye is used, sup-ported by mobile technology for monitoring water quality parameters (phenol content) in discharge and affluent pipelines.Results− The article presents the results developed from a real-time monitoring system and on-line control by mobile technology of water quality parameters (phenols) in pipelines for discharges and tributaries emulated by the functional replication of the functioning of the senses of smell, taste and spectrophotometric vision by artificial cloning applied in the design of a network of sensors and control systems.Conclusions−In summary, the project presents a viable alternative solution supported by high impact, technical-technological, economic and reliable indicators, where the information is presented in real time with a record every two minutes, and omnipresent access (from anywhere) by mobile technology, with a decrease in manufacturing and implementa-tion costs by more than one hundred times through the use of MEMS and NEMS.

Keywords

• sensor network
• phenol concentration
• micro-bioinstrumen-tation
• nano-bioinstrumentation