Publications by authors named "Rui-Feng Kan"

In the field of the absorption spectrum, especially for direct tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (dTDLAS) technology, the integrated area of the absorption spectrum is needed to be measured accurately for calculating the temperature and the component concentration of the flow field. Doing single optical path absorption spectroscopic measurement in the non-uniform flow field, spectral lineshape broadening is varied with the flow changes, in previous research reports, researchers mainly use single Voigt or Lorentz profile to fit absorbance curve or use directly integral to obtain the integrated area of the absorption spectrum. There are some shortcomings in these methods, resulting in certain error between the fitting result and the actual area, which is not conducive to the accurate measurement of flow field parameters.

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The main source and sink of CO2 in the atmosphere are concentrated in the troposphere. It is of great significance to the study of CO2 flux and global climate change to obtain the accurate tropospheric CO2 concentration profile. For the characteristics of high resolution, high sensitivity and fast response of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), a compact balloon-borne system based on direct absorption was developed to detect the CO2 concentration profiles by use of the 2 004.

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We specify water vapor among combustion products as the target gas based on tunable diode absorption spectroscopy in this paper. The direct absorption signals of water vapor after being processed can be used to calculate the gas concentration distributions and temperature distributions of the combustion region of methane and air flat flame furnace via algebraic reconstruction technique (ART). In the numerical simulation, reconstruction region is a grid of five by five, we assume a temperature and water vapor concentration distribution of 25 grid, then simulate different direction laser rays which cross the combustion region, generating projection of each ray, by ART reconstruction algorithm, it turns out that the temperature and water vapor distribution reconstruction error is less than 1%.

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TDLAS (tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy) technology, with its unmatched advantages such as high selectivity molecular spectra, fast response, high sensitivity, non-contact measuring, become the preferred scheme for combustion process diagnosis, and can be effectively used for oxygen measuring. DFB (distributed feedback) laser diode with its small size, low power consumption, long service life, narrow linewidth, tunable wavelength has become the main choice of the TDLAS system. Performance of laser tuning characteristics is a key factor restricting TDLAS's measuring performance.

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Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) has been developed to realize the real-time and dynamic measurement of the combustion temperature, gas component concentration, velocity and other flow parameters, owing to its high sensitivity, fast time response, non-invasive character and robust nature. In order to obtain accurate water vapor concentration at high temperature, several absorption spectra of water vapor near 1.39 μm from 773 to 1273 K under ordinary pressure were recorded in a high temperature experiment setup using a narrow band diode laser.

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This paper reports the development of an experimental technique for optical remote sensing of broadband absorbers in ambient air. Broadband absorbers have been difficult to detect due to a lack of narrow absorption features, which makes it hard to separate them from interference with other absorbing species and background. In combination with a multidimensional linear regression procedure, we have developed a further step to correct for water vapor and background influences.

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Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) is a new gas detection technique developed recently with high spectral resolution, high sensitivity and fast time response. The second-harmonic signal of wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) is often used as the detection signal for gas concentration inversion. Using Simulink, a visual modeling and simulation platform, the authors simulated the WMS signal based on TDLAS, and got the second-harmonic signal by using lock-in amplifier algorithm.

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The present paper describes how to measure OH radicals in the flame of alcohol burner flame by using XeCl excimer laser. The instrument consists of a XeCl excimer laser as light source, a multiple-reflection cell with whole path length of light achieving 2 560 meters, and a double pass high resolution echelle spectrometer with resolution 3.3 pm.

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The detection of natural gas pipeline leak becomes a significant issue for body security, environmental protection and security of state property. However, the leak detection is difficult, because of the pipeline's covering many areas, operating conditions and complicated environment. A mobile sensor for remote detection of natural gas leakage based on scanning wavelength differential absorption spectroscopy (SWDAS) is introduced.

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The present paper describes a new developed high resolution differential optical absorption spectroscopy instrument used for the measurement of OH radicals in flame. The instrument consists of a Xenon lamp for light source; a double pass high resolution echelle spectrometer with a resolution of 3.3 pm; a multiple-reflection cell of 20 meter base length, in which the light reflects in the cell for 176 times, so the whole path length of light can achieve 3 520 meters.

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Tunable diode-laser absorption spectroscopy techniques have been widely used in many regions, such as environmental monitoring and detection of industrial process, due to their high spectral resolution, high sensitivity, fast time response and nonintrusive character. It's important to obtain absorbance curve and integrated absorbance for gas concentration inversion and line strength calibration in direct-absorption spectroscopy techniques. An approach was taken to process the laser direct absorption spectrum.

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HCL, with the character of strong erosion and toxicity, is a kind of chemical material of vital importance. So measuring the HCL in-situ can not only optimize its production process, but also be necessary to reduce the environment pollution. TDLAS (tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy) technology, and owning the advantage of the tunability and narrow line width of the diode laser, this method can relatively easily select the absorption line of the detected gas without the interference from other gas, thus making the rapid and accurate HCL measurement possible.

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Mid-infrared lasers are very suitable for high-sensitive trace-gases detection in that their wavelengths cover the fundamental absorption lines of most gases. Quantum-cascade lasers have been demonstrated to be ideal light sources with their especially high power, wide range of tuning capability and favorable operating condition on room-temperature. The intra-pulse spectroscopy based on a room-temperature distributed-feedback pulsed QC laser is a simple and effective trace gas detective method to detect trace-gas qualitatively or quantificationally.

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Oxygen is a widely used important gas in the industrial process. It is very meaningful to on-line monitor the oxygen concentration for the enhancement of combustion efficiency and reduction in environmental pollution. Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) is a highly sensitive, highly selective and fast time response trace gas detection technique.

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Based on the technology of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) in conjunction with second harmonic wave detection, a long open-path TDLAS system using a 1.65 microm InGaAsP distributed feedback laser was developed, which is used for detecting pipeline leakage. In this system, a high cost performance Fresnel lens is used as the receiving optical system, which receives the laser-beam reflected by a solid corner cube reflector, and focuses the receiving laser-beam to the InGaAs detector.

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With the conjunction of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy technology (TDLAS) and the open long optical path technology, the system designing scheme of CO2 on-line monitoring based on near infrared tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy technology was discussed in detail, and the instrument for large-range measurement was set up. By choosing the infrared absorption line of CO2 at 1.57 microm whose line strength is strong and suitable for measurement, the ambient atmospheric CO2 was measured continuously with a 30 s temporal resolution at an suburb site in the autumn of 2007.

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In the present paper, the technology of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) in conjunction with the open path multi-pass Herriot cell and the new-style detection method of auto-balanced detection combined with wavelength modulation technology were used, and the concentration of CO produced in combustion of alcohol blowtorch was measured. It was found in the measured result that the change in CO concentration in the flame of alcohol blowtorch presented a stated periodicity in the process of combustion and the average concentration of CO was calculated to be 49.4 (10(-6) ratio by volume).

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As one of the materials in organic chemical industry, acetylene has been used in many aspects of chemical industry. But acetylene is a very dangerous inflammable and explosive gas, so it needs in-situ monitoring during industrial storage and production. Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) technology has been widely used in atmospheric trace gases detection, because it has a lot of advantageous characteristics, such as high sensitivity, good selectivity, and rapid time response.

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Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) is a new method to detect trace-gas qualitatively or quantificationally based on the scan characteristic of the diode laser used to obtain the absorption spectroscopy in the characteristic absorption region It needs to be combined with a long absorption path in the ambient trace-gas measurements. TDLAS is a new trace gas detective method developed with the combination of a tunable diode laser source and a long absorption path; it has significant advantages not only in the sensitivity but also in rapidity of response. It has been widely used in many atmospheric trace-gases detection, ground trace-gas detection and, gas leakage detection.

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A new equipment of pulsed DC discharge supersonic molecular beam was set up for producing transient species. Thepulsed DC discharge can be used stably under 10 kV. In data collection using software, it can be utilized as gated integrators and averagers.

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