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Fast Simultaneous CO Gas Temperature and Concentration Measurements by Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Applied Sciences (Switzerland), ISSN: 2076-3417, Vol: 12, Issue: 10
2022
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A quantum cascade laser-based sensing technique is presented which allows for in situ high-precision temperature and/or CO concentration measurements of gases in the room temperature regime with sampling rates up to about 40 kHz. The method is based on Boltzmann-like thermally populated fundamental and hot-band rovibrational transitions of CO with opposite temperature dependence. Single absorption spectra at about 2350 to 2352 cm are recorded by a nanosecond frequency down chirped IR pulse of a pulsed distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (intrapulse mode). The statistical uncertainty (1σ) in the temperature measurement within one laser pulse is about 1 K and can be further reduced down to about 0.1 K by time averaging over 100 ms. Online temperature and CO concentration measurements on a breath simulator controlled gas flow were performed to demonstrate response-time and sensitivity for an application-driven test system.

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Frank Herklotz; Tom Rubin; Malte Sinnreich; Alexander Helmke; Theodore von Haimberger; Karsten Heyne

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Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy; Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Computer Science

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