Research

Astronomy & Space Sciences

Title :

Detection of toxic isocyanate vapors in solid propellant plant by a simple in expensive sampling instrument

Area of research :

Astronomy & Space Sciences

Focus area :

Composite Solid Propellants

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Executive Summary :

Monitoring of isocyanate levels to check exposure limit is required to forewarn the people working in this area. Available monitoring systems provide significant statistical differences and interference problems, especially from humidity in the air. Hence a detector that detects TDI pollution in PPB levels using chemi-resistor sensor has to be developed. Chemical sensors transform the concentrations of analytes to other detectable physical signals, such as currents, absorbance, mass or acoustic variables. Organic semi conducting polymers will be selected because they are mechanically robust and work well in high humidity conditions for the synthesis of chemiresistor.

Co-PI:

Shri P Kanakaraju, Satish Dhawan Space Centre- SHAR (SDSC-SHAR), Sriharikota

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