Abstract:
Concentrations of a target analyte in a gas mixture containing one or more background analytes having potentially interfering spectral absorption features can be calculated by compensating for background analyte absorption at a target wavelength used to quantify the target analyte. Absorption can be measured at a reference wavelength chosen to quantify the concentration of the background analyte. Using a background gas adjustment factor or function, the absorption measured at the reference wavelength can be used to calculate absorption due to the background analyte at the target wavelength and thereby compensate for this background absorption to more accurately calculate the target analyte concentration in real or near real time. Additional background analytes can optionally be compensated for by using one or more additional reference wavelengths.
Abstract:
A differential absorption spectrum for a reactive gas in a gas mixture can be generated for sample absorption data by subtracting background absorption data set from the sample absorption data. The background absorption data can be characteristic of absorption characteristics of the background composition in a laser light scan range that includes a target wavelength. The differential absorption spectrum can be converted to a measured concentration of the reactive gas using calibration data. A determination can be made whether the background composition has substantially changed relative to the background absorption data, and new background absorption data can be used if the background composition has substantially changed. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described..
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are described that permit an analyte concentration to be estimated from a measurement in the presence of compounds that interfere with the measurement. The method reduces the error in the analyte concentration in the presence of interferents. The method includes the use of a set of measurements obtained for a large population having a range of know analyte and interfering compound concentrations. From a sample measurement, which may or may not be one of the population, likely present interferents are identified, and a calibration vector is calculated.
Abstract:
PCT No. PCT/DE93/00333 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 21, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 21, 1994 PCT Filed Apr. 13, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/21515 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 1993A concentration of a detector gas in a measuring gas containing an interfering gas is measured. A zero gas that is free of the detector gas and/or a test gas having a known concentration of the detector gas are supplied to an analyzer such as a non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas analyzer. Interfering gas is added to the measuring gas, the zero gas, and in some instances, to the test gas to an extent which allows the interfering gas to have a same concentration in each case.
Abstract:
The object of the invention is a method for the separation of overlapping absorption bands of a spectrum from one another, in which a part of the absorption bands of the gas being measured and of an interfering gas compound occur in the same wavelength area. The content of the gas being measured is obtained by means of the following stages: a pure spectrum of the interfering gas compound at the comparative content is entered into the memory; a pure wavelength area is chosen from the interfering gas compound spectrum, which does not overlap the spectrum of any other substance contained in the gas being investigated; the spectrum (S0) of the gas mixture being investigated is measured and entered in the memory; the wavelength area of the above-mentioned pure area is determined from the measured spectrum, and the relative content value of the interfering gas compound in the gas being investigated is calculated by means of it; the spectrum of the interfering gas compound is calculated by means of the calculated content value, when the interfering spectrum contained in the measured spectrum is obtained; the measured spectrum is divided by the calculated interference spectrum, in which a corrected spectrum (S1) is obtained.
Abstract:
A gas analyzer system includes an optical source, an optical filter assembly, a controller, and an analyzer. The optical source generates an optical signal. The optical filter assembly includes different optical filters in which to filter the optical signal. During operation, the controller selects sequential application of each of the different optical filters in a path of the optical signal to modulate the optical signal using different frequency bands of optical energy. The modulated optical signal passes through an unknown sample. Based on absorption of the optical signal by the sample gas at different frequencies, the optical analyzer detects which types of multiple different gases are present in the sample.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for interfacing a plurality of gas measurement systems (8, 28, 60), including a mainstream and a sidestream gas measurement system, to a host system (74) via an interface unit (64). The present invention also pertains to a sidestream gas measurement system (80) that outputs signals emulating the signals output by a mainstream gas measurement system or portion thereof, so that the sidestream gas measurement system can seamlessly communicate with a host system configured to communicate only a mainstream gas measurement system or a portion thereof.
Abstract:
In order to measure the nitric oxide concentration in a measuring gas containing water vapour by means of NDIR gas analysis, the measuring gas, possibly after water vapour has been partially removed, a zero gas by means of which the zero point is determined and a test gas which contains a known concentration of nitric oxide and with which the extent of the measurement effect is determined, are taken via a humidifier so that all three gases have the same water vapour concentration. After the zero point and the measuring effect have been determined, the interfering effect of the water vapour on the measurement can be eliminated by finding the difference and the use of a correcting calculation. The invention is used in the measurement of nitric oxide in exhaust gases.
Abstract:
The object of the invention is a method for the separation of overlapping absorption bands of a spectrum from one another, in which a part of the absorption bands of the gas being measured and of an interfering gas compound occur in the same wavelength area. The content of the gas being measured is obtained by means of the following stages: a pure spectrum of the interfering gas compound at the comparative content is entered into the memory; a pure wavelength area is chosen from the interfering gas compound spectrum, which does not overlap the spectrum of any other substance contained in the gas being investigated; the spectrum (S0) of the gas mixture being investigated is measured and entered in the memory; the wavelength area of the above-mentioned pure area is determined from the measured spectrum, and the relative content value of the interfering gas compound in the gas being investigated is calculated by means of it; the spectrum of the interfering gas compound is calculated by means of the calculated content value, when the interfering spectrum contained in the measured spectrum is obtained; the measured spectrum is divided by the calculated interference spectrum, in which a corrected spectrum (S1) is obtained.