摘要:
A cylindrically shaped coil of resistance wire constitutes a source of infrared radiation which is located within a reflector comprised of a curved reflector section having a reflecting surface shaped to resemble an axially bisected rotationally symmetrical paraboloid, and a cylindrical reflector section which extends from an open side of the curved reflector section. The focal points of the reflecting surface are located on a circle which coincides with the outer circumference of the cylindrically shaped coil.
摘要:
A cylindrical block is provided with two ducts, forming a V whose legs terminate in exit windows in one axial end face of the block. A light source is disposed in the bottom of the V to direct light into both ducts. The block is further traversed by a bore, terminating as to one end in between the windows, avoiding the ducts and terminating in an offset position relative to the V-bottom and the light source at the other end of the block. A shaft traverses this bore for rotating a shutter in front of the windows. A complementary, light receiving unit is disposed with misaligned entrance windows in front of the unit windows, but their centers are traversed respectively by the optical axes of the ducts.
摘要:
A modulated twin beam selective radiation absorption monitoring analyzer. Beam modulation is converted to modulated electrical quantity fed to an amplifier and thence to a rectifier to give reading, the rectifier having a sensitivity threshold exceeding the amplified zero drift prior to rectification. Sample cell length is chosen such that the amount of absorption therein is in the range of 40 to 60 percent. The absorption by a sample of known composition is simulated by a change in beam intensity.
摘要:
Separate pulsed sample and reference beams of infrared energy are passed, respectively, through sample and reference gases to separate chambers in a detector unit for measuring the absorption of the sample beam by a component of interest in the sample gas. In the detector unit, the relative absorption of the two beams is measured by a flow responsive sensor in a passage connecting the two chambers, the sensor having a rate of change of resistance that varies inversely with temperature. By substantially unbalancing the two beams, in the absence of a component of interest in the sample gas, so that the sample beam is the stronger before the beams enter the detector unit, the sensitivity of the instrument is greatly increased because of the nonlinear response of the sensor. The greater the initial unbalance, the greater the sensitivity. In the extreme case, the unbalance amounts to complete suppression of the reference beam, so that the analyzer becomes a single beam instrument.
摘要:
A flow responsive detector for use in an infrared gas analyzer includes a pair of gas chambers, at least one of which is adapted to be irradiated by a pulsed beam of infrared energy to produce alternate heating and cooling, and concomitant expansion and contraction, of the gas therein when that gas contains a radiation absorbing component. A sensor responsive to gas flow in the form of a thermistor that has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and a rate of change of resistance that varies inversely with temperature is mounted in a flow chamber, which is connected by a separate passage with each gas chamber. Where these passages enter the flow chamber, they are provided with jet orifices for directing a high velocity stream or jet flow of gas on the sensor in response to the expansion and contraction of gas in at least one of the gas chambers, thereby greatly enhancing the favorable nonlinear response characteristics of the sensor.