Gas analyzer for measuring nitrogen oxides and least one further component of an exhaust gas

US10871443B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Camiel Heffels · Blankenloch, DE
• Benjamin Schmidt · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 16, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 22, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 16, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/20
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A gas analyzer includes an oxidation device and a subsequent photometer, wherein the oxidation device has a reaction chamber located in an exhaust gas path and a heating chamber downstream thereof, where an ultraviolet light source generates ozone from residual oxygen content of the exhaust gas within the reaction chamber to convert nitrogen monoxide into nitrogen dioxide in the exhaust gas, nitrogen oxides and excess ozone are broken down into nitrogen dioxide and oxygen in the heating chamber, the photometer outputs the measured nitrogen dioxide concentration as nitrogen oxide concentration of the untreated exhaust gas, and where an additional photometer is located in the exhaust gas path between the reaction chamber and the heating chamber which, via light absorption, measures the ozone concentration in the partially treated exhaust gas and outputs the same as oxygen concentration of the untreated exhaust gas.