Abstract:
A sensor unit is provided for selective detection of one or another of gaseous pollutants by response to absorption of infrared radiation by the pollutant to be detected. The unit contains a pair of thermistor elements mounted back to back in a housing having two opposite windows, in each of which filters are mounted. These filters are selective for the different radiation absorption characteristics of two different gaseous pollutants such as carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Each thermistor is behind a different filter. The unit is rotatable to expose one filter window or the other to radiation passing through the sample containing the pollutant to be measured. A shield is provided to shade the filter window which is not to be exposed to radiation.
Abstract:
A nondispersive infrared analyzer having a source, flow cell, filter and detector is disclosed. The inlet to the flow cell may be switched from one of two intakes and the outlet is connected to a jet pump. With air flowing through the cell the zero suppression control is adjusted to reduce the signal input to the DC amplifier to zero. The calibration blade is started and the span control adjusted to provide a given up-scale reading of the meter. The analyzer is then calibrated to provide a reading directly in concentration of the desired constituent.
Abstract:
Phase and amplitude balance adjustment are provided for a gas analyzer of the type in which two infrared beams are generated, one passed through a cell containing a standard and the other through a cell containing a sample gas, constituents in which are to be detected and measured; and there is a detector which compares the energy absorption in the two cells to provide a measure of the gas content. In this type of gas detector there is a chopper consisting of a rotating shutter with two sectors which rotate in front of two apertures through which infrared beams are transmitted from two different infrared beam generators. Phase adjustment is accomplished mechanically by physically moving a mounting plate carrying the two infrared beam generators with respect to the position of the apertures. Amplitude balance adjustment is accomplished by adjusting the relative electrical energy supplied to the two infrared beam generators.