Direct reading flame photometer using digital photography and image processing

Author

Panditrao, Anagha M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum. & Control, Cummins Coll. of Eng. for Women, Pune, India

fYear

2011

fDate

8-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

136

Abstract

The work presents a new technique for the detection of percentage of electrolytes in a flame using digital photography and image processing. Various samples containing different concentrations of alkali metals like sodium and potassium are prepared and aspired in a flame photometer. The flame images are captured using a consumer grade digital camera of known resolution. The images for various concentrations are captured. By developing image processing algorithm the change in the flame colour is identified. Correlation between the colour and the concentration is developed using various analytical techniques. The results indicate that the image-based measurements agree with the corresponding known values within an error range of about ±5%.

Keywords

cameras; image colour analysis; photography; photometers; alkali metals; consumer grade digital camera; digital photography; direct reading flame photometer; electrolytes; flame photometer; image colour analysis; image processing; image-based measurements; various analytical techniques; Biomedical measurements; Correlation; Digital photography; Fires; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Digital Photography; Electrolyte Estimation; Image Processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2011 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1167-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICI-BME.2011.6108610

Filename

6108610