Crude oil water-cut sensing with disposable laser ablated and inkjet printed RF microfluidics
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Integrated Microwave Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology (IMPACT) LabComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
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2014-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564924
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This paper presents the first microwave microfluidic crude oil/water cut sensor. Anhydrous crude oil is been tested and the device provides a measurable frequency shift of 500MHz at 50% (vol.) water content and a 50MHz shift for a 5% (vol.) water concentration. The sensor is realized with a low-cost direct write fabrication method. This involves laser ablation, inkjet printing, laser heating, along with low temperature thermal compression bonding of Poly (methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) sheets. By using localized laser sintering a conductivity of 2.5e6 S/m is achieved for silver nanoparticle ink without the need to heat the entire substrate above its glass transition temperature of (105 °C). The dielectric properties of PMMA are characterized to 1 GHz and a simulation model is offered for analyzing the dielectric properties of crude oil. This work demonstrates that a small form factor and low cost device is capable of precise water-cut measurements. © 2014 IEEE.Citation
McKerricher, G., Conchouso, D., Cook, B. S., Foulds, I., & Shamim, A. (2014). Crude oil water-cut sensing with disposable laser ablated and inkjet printed RF microfluidics. 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2014). doi:10.1109/mwsym.2014.6848658Conference/Event name
2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2014ISBN
9781479938698ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848658