Method and apparatus for measuring dissolved gas concentrations
US4578154A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 19, 1985 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 19, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N27/4045
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Two dissolved gas components in sample water, for example, oxygen and hydrogen in core water, are readily quantitatively determined in one and same membrane-type oxygen meter by using a membrane producing an overlapped potential region where a potential region for an oxidation limiting current plateau is overlapped with that for a reduction limiting current plateau between two dissolved gas components, and applying to between a pair of an electrode and a counter-electrode a more positive potential than the equilibrium potential for oxidation-reduction reaction of one of the two dissolved gas components principally, thereby measuring a current generated between the electrodes, and a more negative potential than the equilibrium potential for oxidation-reduction reaction of the other dissolved gas component, when desired, thereby measuring a current generated between the electrodes, and quantitatively determining a concentration of the first dissolved gas component from the latter current quantity and quantitatively determining a concentration of the other dissolved gas component from a difference between the said two current quantities.
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