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Biofouling protection for water quality monitoring buoy and sensors
Received date: 2018-01-04
Request revised date: 2018-03-12
Online published: 2018-10-13
Supported by
National Key Research and Development Plan (2017YFC0506305, 2016YFC1400603)
Welfare Project of the Oceanic Administration (201305019)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (41406205)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou City China (201504010034)
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Antifouling techniques are important for water quality monitoring sensors, especially for those sensors used in coastal and estuarine waters. In this paper, several biofouling prevention methods used for the Pearl River Estuary water quality monitoring buoys are introduced. For optical monitoring instruments, the automatic anti-biofouling brush can clear the pollutants on the surface of optical windows. For the sensors that cannot use automatic anti-biofouling brush, anti-biofouling material enveloping or anti-biofouling filter head of seawater injection pipeline could achieve limited anti-biofouling effect. To ensure normal operation of long-term underwater observation instruments, the instrument warehouse needs to be manually cleaned periodically.
CAO Wenxi , SUN Zhaohua , LI Cai , ZOU Guowang . Biofouling protection for water quality monitoring buoy and sensors[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2018 , 37(5) : 7 -12 . DOI: 10.11978/2018004
Fig. 1 Effect of automatic anti-biofouling brush mounted on the buoy (a) and working principle of anti-biofouling brush (b)图1 海洋浮标自动清洗刷的清洗效果(a)及其工作原理(b) |
Fig. 2 The water quality monitoring buoy with automatic anti-biofouling brush. (a) COD sensor with anti-biofouling brush; (b) Chlorophyll sensor with anti-biofouling brush; (c) the biofouling situation of COD sensor after having been in the water for a period of time; (d) the biofouling situation of chlorophyll sensor after having been in the water for a period of time图2 水质监测浮标中采用自动清洗刷的仪器设备 |
Fig. 3 The anti-biofouling effect of pure copper envelope. (a) The sensor with pure copper envelope; (b) the biofouling situation of the sensor after having been in the water for a period of time图3 用纯铜包裹传感器的防污染效果 |
Fig. 4 The anti-biofouling effect of multi-layer Ti powder sintered mesh filter图4 多层钛粉烧结过滤网的防污染效果 |
Fig. 5 (a) Deployment of the instruments and (b) mannual cleaning of biofouling on the instruments图5 仪器吊放(a)及人工清理(b) |
Fig. 6 The dragging process of the buoy and its maintenance on land图6 浮标拖动及上岸维护 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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