• achieving and developing the knowledges in one of the important segment of testing and control means for environmental factors: atomic spectrometry and the optoelectronic instrumentation for implementing it;
• achieving knowledge on the phenomena implied on determinations based on atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) of heavy metals and toxic elements using capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) as free atoms reservoir;
• development of an innovative product and analytical techniques for environment control and monitoring, based on original ideas, implemented with optoelectronic instrumentation and modern spectrometric methods of atomic fluorescence;
• development of high precision, specific and sensitive control methods, by means of relatively simple instrumentation of reduced size and financially accessible.
  

• a fluorescence optoelectronic functional model using CCP, including power generator, torch and optoelectronic systems for stimulation and detection ;
• a national patent;
• 8 papers with ISI quotation;
• 3 new laboratory methods to control and test the environment;
• a feasibility study for the potential beneficiaries regarding the utility of the CCP-AFS functional.
  

Stage I

Establishment of the optimum configuration for the building of the atomic fluorescence
system with CCP atomization requirements for the CCP-AFS analysis system

1.1.Establishment of requirements for the building of components and
sub-systems;
1.2.Establishment of the design task.

Stage II

Design and execution of components for the CCP –AFS system

2.1.Design of subsystems and components;
2.2.Design and execution of the CCP torch subsystem;
2.3.Execution of components and sub-systems;
2.4. Dissemination of results.


Stage III

Assembly and experimentation of the optoelectronic functional model CCP – AFS (partial realization)

Activity 3.1. Assembly of the components and subassemblies of the functional model;
Activity 3.2. Simulation of the functional model CCP – AFS (partial);
Activity 3.3. Preliminary testing of the functional model CCP - AFS.


Stage IV

Experimentation continuance for the functional model CCP – AFS

Activity 4.1. Simulation functional CCP – AFS model (final);
Activity 4.2. Testing continuance of the functional CCP – AFS model (partial).



Phase V

Industrial research. Experimental development. Support activities. Finalization of experimentation for the functional CCP-AFS model. Elaboration of new specific methods for the analysis of environmental parameters, functionality and utility demonstration, dissemination.

5.1. Finalization of testing for the functional CCP-AFS model.
5.2. Elaboration of laboratory methods based on the CCP-AFS model.
5.3. demonstration of the functionality and utility of the CCP-AFS model.
5.4. Identification and assignment of the intellectual property rights over the results: elaboration of the documentation and filling of a national invention patent.
5.5. Dissemination on a large scale through the communication and national/international publication of the results, CD, web page.

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