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Method and apparatus for measuring concentration of a solution using pathlength complementally modulated cells

US5387971A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 7, 1993
Grant dateFeb 7, 1995
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Expiry dateSep 7, 2013

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N21/534
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Method and apparatus for measuring concentration of a solution use pathlength complementarily modulated cells comprising a sample cell and a reference cell arranged in parallel to each other and separated by a displacable separator window which is displaced parallelly in a direction of an optical axis of a measuring optical system thereby varying each of cell-length of sample and reference cells complementarily, detect transmitted intensities by the combined cells at different positions of the separator window while flowing a sample solution and a reference solution having a known concentration into the sample cell and reference cell, respectively, and calculate the concentration of the sample solution based on detected transmitted intensities, positions of the separator window at which transmitted intensities are detected and the known concentration of the reference solution.

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