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Multicomponent infrared gas analyzer

US5055688A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 30, 1990
Grant dateOct 8, 1991
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Expiry dateOct 30, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2021/3133
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Nondispersive infrared gas analyzer for the concurrent measurement in the concentration of several components contained in a gas sample, and including a source of and modulator for infrared radiation, a measuring and reference chamber are traversed by said beams, at least two serially pneumatic radiation detectors each having a front and a rear chamber filled with a respective component and each provided for measuring the pressure differential between the respective chambers, a filter disposed between the first detectors upstream and having opaque range which covers at least a major absorption band of the component filling the downstream detector but having a region of transparency which includes at least one secondary absorption band of that component.

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