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22 February 2002 Ground-based passive FT-IR spectrometry
Robert B. Knapp, Roger J. Combs, Robert T. Kroutil
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Proceedings Volume 4577, Vibrational Spectroscopy-based Sensor Systems; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455745
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States
Abstract
Absorbance and transmittance spectra were acquired with ground-based passive FT-IR spectrometry for industrial stack evaluations and open-air controlled vapor generation experiments. The industrial stack effluents of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide were detected from a coal-burning power plant and an acid plant, respectively, with both MWIR and LWIR passive sensors. The controlled open-air experiments relied on only a LWIR sensor. These experiments produced plumes of methanol and ethanol at three and four elevated plume temperatures, respectively. Various vapor concentration pathlength produces of both ethanol and methanol were generated and gravimetrically monitored in the range from 0 to 300 ppm-m. The associated absorbance values for these concentration pathlength products were found to obey Beer's Law for each elevate stack temperature of 125, 150, 175, and 200 degrees C.
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Robert B. Knapp, Roger J. Combs, and Robert T. Kroutil "Ground-based passive FT-IR spectrometry", Proc. SPIE 4577, Vibrational Spectroscopy-based Sensor Systems, (22 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455745
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KEYWORDS
Absorbance

Spectroscopy

Sensors

Sulfur

Bioalcohols

Long wavelength infrared

Nitrous oxide

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