A fluorescence image detection system that can visualize the COIL hot mixing
flow field by taking images of the fluorescence of active I2 with a high speed camera
was set up. Based on the captured flow field image, O2(a1Δ)/I2 mixing quality was
evaluated quantitively by an exclusive image processing program. With this method,
the hot supersonic mixing flow field in COIL which uses parallel stream supersonic
mixing nozzles with a set of trip tabs was investigated. Meanwhile the effectiveness
of the trip tabs was demonstrated.
KEYWORDS: Oxygen, Absorption, Emission spectroscopy, Chlorine, Diagnostics, Absorption spectroscopy, Chemical lasers, Temperature metrology, Chemical oxygen iodine lasers, Chlorine gas
By using emission spectroscopy method and absorption at 1392nm, partial water pressure at the exit of a square pipe-array jet-type singlet oxygen generator (SPJSOG) for chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) was measured. The water vapor fraction was calculated from the partial water pressure in the diagnostic cell when we assumed the water vapor fraction in the diagnostic cell is the same as that in the generator. The results from the two methods showed that the water vapor concentration is less than 0.08 in this SPJSOG during normal operation. The water vapor fraction decreases with the increasing of the pressure in the generator and rises with the increasing of buffer gas flow rate and the basic hydrogen peroxide (BHP) temperature in the case of constant chlorine flow rate. Measurements showed that the change of water vapor fraction due to BHP temperature could be ignored during normal operation. It is indicated that the gas flow velocity is the main reason that affects on the water vapor fraction in COIL. It is proved that the emission spectroscopy method is one of the simple and convenient ways to measure the water vapor concentration in singlet oxygen generator (SOG), especially in real time measurements. But absorption spectroscopy method, as a direct measurement, can give the more factual results of the water concentration.
Using a doubled Nd: YAG laser as a spontaneous vibrational Raman scattering source, and a single intensified CCD array at the exit of an imaging monochromator, the Raman scattering system is used to directly measure the concentrations of the O2(a1(Delta) ) and the O2((Chi) 3(Sigma) ) in the chemical oxygen-iodine laser singlet oxygen generator in real time. We present the results from the tests that conducted on a 0.1-mol singlet oxygen-iodine generator. With the current reported uncertainty of the Raman cross-section, the error in the yield measurement is calculated to be less than 8 percent.
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