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Cleaning assurance for reusable plastic packaging using ultraviolet induced fluorescence

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posted on 2019-06-06, 10:14 authored by Elliot WoolleyElliot Woolley, Rosie Hill
Implementing reusable packaging systems is one approach that could reduce the global consumption of single use plastics. Clearly, it is important to ensure that reusable packaging undergoes a process of cleanliness assurance before it is refilled. This research seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of an optical sensing technique to provide this assurance for polymer drinks bottles. An ultraviolet illumination source is used to induce fluorescence in both common polymer and fouling samples. The responses, captured by digital imaging, are processed to determine features that can be used to differentiate the packaging and fouling substances. Variation in signal intensity and differences in responses in the red, green and blue channels are identified as suitable features to enable detection of fouling

Funding

This research was supported by the Innovate UK project Safe CIP (ref: 103936).

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

7th International Symposium on Sensor Science

Citation

WOOLLEY, E. and HILL, R., 2019. Cleaning Assurance for Reusable Plastic Packaging using Ultraviolet Induced Fluorescence. Proceedings, In Press.

Publisher

© the Authors.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2019-02-22

Publication date

2019

Notes

Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2019), Naples, Italy, 9-11th May. This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

  • en

Location

Naples, Italy