Abstract
An ir analyzer employing gas-filter correlation techniques has been designed and constructed to measure the concentrations of CO, NO, SO2, HCL, and HF in the stacks or ducts of stationary pollutant sources. Use of a retroreflector allows the stack to be double passed, and no sample is extracted. For each gas, small interchangeable fixed-position grating polychromators are used as narrow (~1.5-cm−1) multiband spectral filters with the bands corresponding to locations of selected absorption lines. The approximate useful ranges (in parts per million-meters) over which this analyzer operates are 10–4000 for NO, 10–1500 for CO, 50–40,000 for SO2 10–2000 for HCl, and 5–200 for HF. The discrimination against other gases and particulates is excellent. The analyzer has been tested in the laboratory and on a variety of pollutant sources.
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