Senior Design - Group 5 - Spring 2023 & Summer 2023

Project Description:

The goal behind our project is to create a water quality analyzer using Raman spectroscopy. We believe that being able to determine what contaminants are in our water should be public knowledge and allows the people to be able to have a say in what is in our water. Moreover, if we are able to test any source of water anywhere in the state then inhabitants of an area can quickly become aware of any impurities, which would reduce the number of water-related illnesses. By using Raman spectroscopy we are able to use lasers with a preset wavelength along with sensors calibrated to those wavelengths to be able to detect a predetermined set of contaminants. The reason for the preset wavelengths and contaminants we are detecting is because each contaminant is detected only at a certain wavelength, so our lasers and sensors must be calibrated to detect things appearing in that specific range. The advantage of this type of analysis is that Raman spectroscopy returns very accurate results at an incredibly fast rate.