Assessing Hydrocyclone System’s Efficiency in Water-Borne Microplastics Capture Using Online Microscopy Sensors

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 25; no. 3; p. 879
• Main Authors: Pajuro, Kacper, Yang, Zhenyu, Jespersen, Stefan, Hansen, Dennis Severin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 31.01.2025; MDPI
• Subjects: Calibration; Control systems; Efficiency; hydrocyclone; microplastics; Microscope and microscopy; Microscopy; online microscopy; Plastic pollution; Polyethylene; process control; Process controls; Sensors; separation efficiency; Spectrum analysis; statistic calibration; Water; statistic calibration; microplastics; online microscopy; process control; separation efficiency; hydrocyclone

Plastic pollution has been a global concern. Microplastics are often referred to as plastic particulates whose sizes are within the range of 1 μm to 5 mm. To cost-effectively capture these tiny microplastics from open environments, such as from the air or aquatic/marine systems, is far from trivial....