Archive: Institute of Measurement Technology
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Research Area Environmental Measurement Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Matz
Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Schröder
Hazardous chemicals, released to the environment as toxic contaminations, as well as process exhaust gases like oil from combustion engines, which have to be reduced legislatively, can only be detected by extremely sensitive techniques. The techniques have to be selective and specific to the target compound, as the toxic compounds are typically distributed as very low concentration in an atmospheric gas sample.
In the research area Environmental Measurement Technology methods and measurement systems are developed for these tasks. The solution is typically a combination of different spectrometric techniques. Important development topics are sampling, enrichment of gases, amplification and signal filters, as well as data fusion, the multi dimensional signal processing.