Infrared simultaneous gas detector for an atmospheric environmental network

  • J. A. Chavez*
  • , J. A. Ortega
  • , A. Turo
  • , J. Salazar
  • , M. J. Garcia
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A pollutant gas detector is presented. The sensor system detects simultaneously CO and SO2 in a range from 0 to 200 ppm with a resolution of 7 ppm, however the system is able to analyse up to 19 gases simultaneously. A new technique based on a multilayer filter array is proposed to prevent the use of moving parts. The central-wavelengths of filters were selected according to the position of the absorption band of interest for each gas. The CO and SO2 central-wavelengths were measured and its transmission spectral response was also predicted by using the HITRAN database. Also a new conditioning circuit with high-performance is proposed using low-cost components. The circuit is based on shifting the measured signal to intermediate frequency. With this technique a reduction of 1/f noise is achieved. The new system features reduction of moving parts, high acquisition speed and low-cost.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)158-168
Number of pages11
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume3493
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1998 Conference on Spectroscopic Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Techniques - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 21 Sept 199822 Sept 1998

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