A Low Cost Potentiostat Device for Monitoring Aqueous Solution

Abstract

This study developed a new design of a low cost potentiostat circuit device. This device is an alternative electrochemical instrument applied for monitoring heavy metal ion in environmental water. It was developed to alleviate the cost burden of equipment procurement and due to the requirement for in-situ application since the existing commercialize devices are bulky and expensive. the main component of the device consist of electronics configuration of operational amplifier. the device was first modelled and simulated to acquire the design parameters and performance. the potential control algorithm was developed on open-source microcontroller platform. A dummy cell was used to validate the capabilities of the device.