All Multimode Smart Endoscopic Cleaning System Monitored by Libs Spectroscopy

Many industrial applications require careful regular or periodic cleaning of inner regions of metallic elements such as citerns, tanks or tubes [1] . Techniques like sandblasting or chemical cleaning are often unsuitable as they cannot allow proper control of the progress of the cleaning process and because they cannot apply for hardly accessible regions. For addressing both issues, we report in this communication an endoscopic cleaning system based on the use of short energetic light pulses directed towards the area to be scoured by means of an endoscopic optical fiber, and completed by a remote real time Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) analysis system.