2006 Spring Meeting & 2nd Global Congress on Process Safety

(187f) Detection of Explosives by Qdlts Method

Authors

Jose Rodriguez - Presenter, University of Missouri
Yu N. Hsu - Presenter, University of Missouri
Tushar K. Ghosh - Presenter, University of Missouri
Dabir S. Viswanath - Presenter, University of Missouri
Mark A. Prelas - Presenter, University of Missouri
Tammy Pond - Presenter, University of Missouri
Ambrose Wolf - Presenter, University of Missouri
Sudarshan K. Loyalka - Presenter, University of Missouri


In this work, a diamond based sensor was used for detecting vapors from solid explosives. The QDLTS system was used for measuring the change in surface energy following exposure of the diamond surface to the explosive vapors. Two different types of explosives were used and different spectrum was obtained for these explosive vapors.