Process and device for measuring the concentrations of a plurality of gas components in a gas sample

US6728643B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Michael Hackenberg · Lübeck, DE
• Matthias Studer · Kehlhof, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N35/00603
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A process and device measures and checks concentration values of a plurality of gas components in a gas sample. The distortion of the measuring results by temperature and moisture effects, contamination as well as cross sensitivity and drift phenomena of the sensors of the gas-measuring device is a frequent problem in the measurement of gases by a gas-measuring device. It is possible with the process to recognize implausible measuring results as such on the gas-measuring device without design measures. This is achieved by the evaluation of data of suitably selected calibrating gases, from which a subvector space is constructed in the vector space of all possible measurement data (s1, s2, s3), represented as a plane (E), and a corresponding tolerance range is constructed. If the data (*) determined later during a measurement, are in the tolerance range, they are classified as plausible, and otherwise as implausible. The subvector space is constructed, e.g., such that the sum of the distances of the measurement points belonging to the calibrating gases from the subvector space is as small as possible.