Development of an Experimental Setup for Real-Time In-Line Dissolved Ozone Measurement for Medical Therapy

Abstract

Ozone therapy is established in clinical applications since many decades, such as treatment of infections or herniated discs. However, in-line monitoring of ozone concentrations is challenging and therefore not performed by default. We developed an experimental setup to measure the in-line ozone concentration in water in real-time with a spectroscopic sensor. Thereby, the experimental setup enables the calibration and evaluation of newly evolved ozone sensors. The results for ozone concentration measurement with the spectroscopic sensor and the colorimetric photometer show a very good correlation. Furthermore, the ozone decay curves measured with our experimental setup highly correlate with those of previous research.