Accession Number:
ADA037563
Title:
A Laser Raman System for Obtaining N2 and CO2 Concentrations in Probe- Sampled Combustion Gases
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Mar 1975-Jun 1976
Corporate Author:
ARO INC ARNOLD AFS TN
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1977-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
26.0
Abstract:
A system for obtaining N2 and CO2 concentrations in probe-sampled combustion gases by means of vibrational Raman scattering of an argon laser beam passed through a small cell located in the sample transfer line has been designed and tested. The detectors consisted of conventional photomultiplier tubes windowed by narrow bandpass approximately 1 nm interference filters and Rayleigh rejection filters. For N2, the center wavelength of the filter was 584. 6 nm with a half-width of 1.2 nm, and for CO2, the wavelength was 554.1 nm with a half-width of 1.3 nm. Laboratory tests with calibration gases indicated excellent system linearity with respect to species concentration and partial pressure. The detection threshold was found to be approximately 1 percent at a sample pressure of 0.5 atm. The factors which determine this limit were photomultiplier noise levels and out-of-band leakage of the Raman interference filters.
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Subject Categories:
- Lasers and Masers
- Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
- Combustion and Ignition