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High performance direct absorption spectroscopy of pure and binary mixture hydrocarbon gases in the 6 - 11 μm range

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Date
08/2017
Author
Heinrich, Robert
Popescu, Alexandru
Hangauer, Andreas
Strzoda, Rainer
Höfling, Sven
Keywords
QC Physics
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Abstract
The availability of accurate and fast hydrocarbon analyzers, capable of real-time operation while enabling feedback-loops, would lead to a paradigm change in the petro-chemical industry. Primarily gas chromatographs measure the composition of hydrocarbon process streams. Due to sophisticated gas sampling, these analyzers are limited in response time. As hydrocarbons absorb in the mid-infrared spectral range, the employment of fast spectroscopic systems is highly attractive due to significantly reduced maintenance costs and the capability to setup real-time process control. New developments in mid-infrared laser systems pave the way for the development of high-performance analyzers provided that accurate spectral models are available for multi-species detection. In order to overcome current deficiencies in the availability of spectroscopic data, we developed a laser-based setup covering the 6–11 μm wavelength range. The presented system is designated as laboratory reference system. Its spectral accuracy is at least 6.6×10−3 cm−1 with a precision of 3×10−3 cm−1. With a “per point” minimum detectable absorption of 1.3×10−3 cm−1 Hz−1/2 it allows us to perform systematic measurements of hydrocarbon spectra of the first 7 alkanes under conditions which are not tabulated in spectroscopic database. We exemplify the system performance with measured direct absorption spectra of methane, propane, iso-butane, and a mixture of methane and propane.
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Heinrich , R , Popescu , A , Hangauer , A , Strzoda , R & Höfling , S 2017 , ' High performance direct absorption spectroscopy of pure and binary mixture hydrocarbon gases in the 6 - 11 μ m range ' Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics , vol. 123 , 223 . DOI: 10.1007/s00340-017-6796-6
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Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6796-6
ISSN
0946-2171
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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The project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 636930.
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11342

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