A seamless fumed silica monolithic integrating cavity device tailored to analyzing a flowed sample. The device is configured to facilitate optical measurements taken from a sample flowed through a cavity of the device. The cavity is defined by a fumed silica monolith with the added feature of a fused quartz lining on the surface of the monolith. This provides an intermediate surface that allows for cleaning and reuse of the highly effective diffuse light scattering fumed silica monolith. The lining may be placed under pressure or vacuum to structurally enhance mechanical integrity of the underlying monolith. Thus, continued or reliably repeated use of the device may be appreciated as well as use in more industrial environments that are prone to vibration. Additionally, while well suited for flow-based sample analysis, a valve of the cavity may be utilized for holding a sample in a temporarily static state for measurement.

This laser gas analysis device compensates distortion of a laser beam and can place a detector depending on the wavelength used. A transmitter side process window unit consists of two wedge-shaped glass substrates that are positioned to have a space with an appropriate length along a laser propagation direction, and sends the laser beam from a transmitter unit to a measuring space. A receiver side process window unit is configured the same as the transmitter side process window unit, and sends the laser beam passed through the measuring space to a receiver unit. The outer surfaces of the two wedge-shaped glass substrates with respect to the space in between are placed to be parallel each other, and accordingly the inner surfaces are also parallel each other. The distance between the two wedge-shaped glass substrates in the laser propagation direction is determined so as to avoid optical interferences of the laser.

A method of measuring a gas concentration is described. The method comprises illuminating, with a light source, a volume of space that includes a gas and measuring, with a detector, a first illumination level of the volume of space. The method further comprises determining, via a processor, a gas concentration in the volume of space based on the measured first illumination level, where the volume of space is configured to be in fluid communication with a gas recirculation flow path including a catalyst, the catalyst configured to substantially remove the gas from the volume of space.

A pathogen detection system includes a pathogen sensing adaptor that detect pathogens present in the breathing circuit associated with a ventilated patient. A pathogen sensing adaptor may include a conduit, removable cartridges with testing strips, an optical sensor, and communication circuitry. Upon detecting a colorimetric change on the testing strip, the optical sensor generates a signal indicative of the presence and/or level of pathogens.

The invention relates to a method for in-situ measurement of the concentration of gaseous chemical species contained in a biogas (10) flowing in a pipe (20), for example in a biogas treatment plant or a system using biogas.

The method according to the invention is implemented by means of an optical measurement system (40) including a light source (41) and a spectrometer (44). Source (41) emits a UV radiation (42) through the biogas (10) within a measurement zone (21) in the pipe. Spectrometer (44) detects at least part of said UV radiation that has passed through biogas (10) and it generates a digital signal of the light intensity (50) as a function of the wavelength of the part of the UV radiation that has passed through the biogas. The chemical species concentration is then determined from digital light intensity signal (50).

Process for measuring emission for a flame in an open combustion environment. A captured image is received from each of a plurality of image capturing devices in at least one selected spectral band. Each of the plurality of image capturing devices is trained on the flame from the combustion process from a different perspective view angle. A spectral path length of the flame in the at least one spectral band is estimated from the captured images. Emitted radiance of the flame is estimated from the captured images, and a temperature of the flame is estimated from the estimated emitted radiance. A gas species concentration of the flame is estimated from the temperature of the flame and the spectral path length of the flame. Emission for the flame is measured from the gas species concentration.

A particle sensor for detecting particles in a flow of a measuring gas for detecting soot particles in an exhaust gas channel of a burner or of an internal combustion engine. The particle sensor includes a device for generating or for supplying laser light, a device for focusing laser light, and a device for detecting or transferring thermal radiation. The particle sensor includes at least one optical access, which separates an area exposed to the measuring gas from an area facing away from the measuring gas not exposed to the measuring gas, the device for generating or supplying laser light and/or the device for detecting or for transferring thermal radiation being situated in the area facing away from the measuring gas, wherein the particle sensor removes a sub-flow from the measuring gas flow and supplies it to the laser focus and further fluidically shields the optical access from the sub-flow.

A Raman scattered light acquisition device includes an emitting optical system configured to guide excitation light into a fluid, a scattered light window configured to define a part of a flow path of the fluid and through which Raman scattered light from the fluid irradiated with the excitation light passes, and a scattered light receiving device having a light receiving surface receiving Raman scattered light passed through the scattered light window. The scattered light window and the light receiving surface of the scattered light receiving device are disposed at a position in which they are separated from an optical axis in the fluid in a radial direction within a range in which an optical path of the excitation light in the fluid is present in an optical axis direction in which the optical axis in the fluid which is an optical axis of the excitation light in the fluid extends.

The present disclosure provides a remote sensing-based detection system for gaseous pollutant from diesel vehicle exhaust, including: a diesel vehicle exhaust emission measuring device, a main control computer, an information display device, a vehicle driving status monitoring device, a weather monitoring device and a vehicle license plate recognizing device; where the diesel vehicle exhaust emission measuring device, the information display device, the vehicle driving status monitoring device, the weather monitoring device and the vehicle license plate recognizing device are in communication connection with the main control computer, the main control computer is connected to a motor vehicle emission monitoring platform via internet, and the vehicle driving status monitoring device includes a speedometer, an accelerometer or a radar speedometer. Compared with a traditional detection system, the present disclosure uses remote sensing technology for detection of gaseous emission concentration in exhaust from diesel vehicle in real time.

A laser radar system apparatus for the multi-wavelength measurement of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and a vertical aerosol profile, including: a laser transmitting unit; a dual-pulse laser capable of simultaneously transmitting laser having three wavelengths, i.e., 1572 nm, 1064 nm, and 532 nm; a transmitting beam expander; a receiving telescope system; a visual axis monitoring module; a photoelectric detection unit; and a data acquisition and processing unit. The laser that simultaneously outputs laser having three wavelengths is used in a laser radar system, and an optical differential absorption method and a high spectral resolution detection method are used, such that the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the vertical aerosol profile can be measured simultaneously and high-precision aerosol monitoring is implemented during the high-precision obtaining of the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.