Abstract
Measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) mixing ratios in Houston, Texas, during the period from May 16, 2013 to May 28, 2013 were performed using a sensitive, selective, compact, and portable quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS)-based CO sensor employing a high-power continuous wave (CW) distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (DFB-QCL). The minimum detectable CO concentration was 3 ppbv for the strong, interference-free R(6) absorption line at 2,169.2 cm−1 and a 5 s data acquisition time. The average CO concentration during the measurement period was 299.1 ± 81.4 ppb with observed minimum and maximum values of 210.5 and 4,307.9 ppb, respectively. A commercially available electrochemical sensor was employed in-line for simultaneous measurements to confirm the response of the CW DFB-QCL-based QEPAS sensor to variations of the CO mixing ratios. Moderate agreement (R2 = 0.7) was found between both sets of CO measurements.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 519-526 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Nov 2014 |
Funding
The Rice University group acknowledges financial support from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant EEC-0540832 entitled “Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)”, a NSF-ANR award for international collaboration in chemistry “Next generation of Compact Infrared Laser based Sensor for environmental monitoring (NexCILAS)” and the Robert Welch Foundation Grant C-0586.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- General Physics and Astronomy