Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method that enables the measurement of a trace gas concentration invariant or at least less affected to gas pressure changes and atmospheric pressure changes.SOLUTION: The method neither requires a pressure sensor nor a pressure calibration. Furthermore, the method can be applied to other gas species present in the background gas or to the background gas itself that cross-interferes with the target gas of interest. This allows removing any pressure dependency of cross-interference parameters of other gas species and/or the background gas. The new method for accurately measuring a gas concentration is based on optimizing the wavelength modulation amplitude of the laser to minimum pressure dependency.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flow sensor that does not depend on pressure and temperature as little as possible.SOLUTION: A flow sensor for measuring flow rate of a gas or liquid includes a housing. In the housing, a flow channel having a main flow channel 2 and a measurement flow channel 3 in parallel with the main flow channel 2 extends between an introduction path 15 and an exhaust path 16. In the main flow channel 2, at least one diaphragm part 17 is provided. In the measurement flow channel 3, one sensor element for measuring flow rate is provided. At each entrance side and exit side of the measurement flow channel 3, a diaphragm part 18 is provided. The diaphragm part 17 of the main flow channel has at least one passage channel 19. The diaphragm part 18 of the measurement flow channel has at least one passage channel 20. Each passage channel has the same shape and extends in parallel with the flow direction.
Abstract:
A flow rate measuring unit, comprising a housing, which is composed of at least two housing parts that can be connected to one another and in which a flow passage extends, which branches off into a measuring channel branch and at least one bypass channel branch, wherein a substrate comprising a sensor system is disposed in the measuring channel branch. According to the invention, the flow passage includes a channel widening chamber in which an insert plate stack composed of at least two insert plates is disposed, which each include at least one plate-longitudinal recess extending in the longitudinal direction as the measuring channel branch and/or as the bypass channel branch. The insert plates are provided as insert parts for the channel widening chamber.
Abstract:
A method for operating an optical measuring system for measuring the concentration of a gas component in a measured gas, based on wavelength modulation spectroscopy, wherein a laser light source is operated in a current-modulated manner with a base current IDC and a modulation current IAC and a laser beam of the wavelength λ0 having a wavelength modulation amplitude ΔλAC is emitted, and the wavelength modulation amplitude ΔλAC of the laser light is kept constant by way of variable setting of the current modulation amplitude ΔIAC. The method provides for keeping a modulated power ΔPAC at an internal resistor RI of the laser light source constant at the operating point so as to stabilize the wavelength modulation amplitude ΔλAC.
Abstract:
A method for operating an optical measuring system including a wavelength-tunable temperature-stabilized laser light source for measuring the concentration of a target gas component in a measured gas, wherein an instantaneous base current IDC_ZG,act corresponding to a wavelength λZG of a target gas absorption line is set so that a wavelength distance ΔλDC defined during calibration between a target gas absorption line for a target gas component and a reference gas absorption line for a reference gas component is maintained. During operation, a relative temperature difference in the laser light source, defined in advance during calibration, between the operating points selected at the time of calibration of the reference gas, with a base current IDC_RG,cal, and the target gas component, with a base current IDC_ZG,cal, is maintained by determining the required instantaneous base current IDC_ZG,act for the target gas component, as a function of an instantaneous base current IDC_RG,act for the reference gas. The system includes a measuring system for carrying out the method.
Abstract:
A flow rate measuring unit, comprising a housing, which is composed of at least two housing parts that can be connected to one another and in which a flow passage extends, which branches off into a measuring channel branch and at least one bypass channel branch, wherein a substrate comprising a sensor system is disposed in the measuring channel branch. According to the invention, the flow passage includes a channel widening chamber in which an insert plate stack composed of at least two insert plates is disposed, which each include at least one plate-longitudinal recess extending in the longitudinal direction as the measuring channel branch and/or as the bypass channel branch. The insert plates are provided as insert parts for the channel widening chamber.
Abstract:
An infrared radiation source for gas detection, with a thin layer infrared radiator that is arranged in the interior chamber of a protective housing that includes a support surface for the thin layer infrared radiator and an exit window for the infrared radiation arranged at a distance opposite the support surface. The thin layer infrared radiator includes a platinum layer and at least one structurally defined de-gassing canal with an entry opening and an exit opening that leads from the interior chamber of the protective housing to the outside. For non-critical applications, the de-gassing canal is not sealed. For critical applications, it may be sealed by a sealing membrane that is water impermeable, water vapor permeable and open for gas diffusion, with the sealing membrane preferably being semi-permeable.