Optical gas analyzer
First Claim
1. An optical gas analyzer comprising:
- a radiation source;
a measuring chamber capable of containing a gas sample, said measuring chamber receiving radiation from said radiation source;
a plurality of filters positionable in a beam path from said radiation source to said measuring chamber;
a photoelectric receiver receiving radiation from said radiation source through said measuring chamber, said photoelectric receiver generating a voltage signal in proportion to a received amount of said radiation, said voltage signal of said photoelectric receiver having a frequency response with a declining branch;
filter wheel means for moving said plurality of filters into and out of said beam path at a filter change frequency f, said filter change frequency f being in said declining branch of said frequency response.
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Abstract
An optical gas analyzer for measuring the percentage of components in a gas phase by IR absorption, containing a power source, a measuring path containing the gas sample, a photoelectric receiver with an evaluation circuit arranged downstream of it, which receiver detects the IR radiation from the measuring path, and a plurality of filters, which can be introduced one after another into the beam path at a predetermined filter change frequency f, wherein measured signals belonging to the filters are sent by the receiver due to the radiation extinction in the measuring path, is to be improved such that different components in the gas sample can be detected in a simple manner and at good selectivity. To accomplish this object, the receiver is a pyroelectric detector, the evaluation circuit has elements for the evaluation of the voltage signal of the pyroelectric detector, the filter change frequency f is set at a value in the range of the declining branch of the frequency response of the voltage signal, and the pyroelectric detector is selected to be such that the declining branch of the voltage signal has a decline of -20 dB per decade.
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15 Claims
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1. An optical gas analyzer comprising:
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a radiation source; a measuring chamber capable of containing a gas sample, said measuring chamber receiving radiation from said radiation source; a plurality of filters positionable in a beam path from said radiation source to said measuring chamber; a photoelectric receiver receiving radiation from said radiation source through said measuring chamber, said photoelectric receiver generating a voltage signal in proportion to a received amount of said radiation, said voltage signal of said photoelectric receiver having a frequency response with a declining branch; filter wheel means for moving said plurality of filters into and out of said beam path at a filter change frequency f, said filter change frequency f being in said declining branch of said frequency response. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A process for identification of a component in a gas sample from a group of N possible components, the process comprising the steps of:
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providing an infrared gas analyzer with two filters and a measuring chamber; generating a calibration curve for each of the N possible components by introducing respective gas samples containing a known percentage of a respective one of the N possible components into the said measuring path, recording measured signals with each of said filters and relating said measured signals to percentages as characteristic values; recording at least one measured signal from the gas sample with each of said filters; determining corresponding characteristic values of the N components for each said measured signal from said calibration curves; selecting one of the N possible components at which the determined characteristic values for each filter are located within a predetermined tolerance range as the component to be identified.
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