Gas mixture measurement system and methods therefor
View Patent ↗A system including at least one laser device extending a beam through an in-situ non-restrictive flow path of the gas mixture; and a measurer coupled to each laser device for obtaining a plurality of dynamic measurements over time of at least one species in the gas mixture.
1. A system, comprising:
at least one laser device extending a beam through an in-situ non-restrictive flow path of the gas mixture;
a measurer coupled to each laser device for obtaining a plurality of dynamic measurements of at least one species in the gas mixture over time, wherein each dynamic measurement includes a concentration and a time of measurement of the concentration; and
a gas mixture analysis system, wherein the gas mixture analysis system includes a concentration trend calculator, wherein the concentration trend calculator monitors a rate of change of a concentration of the at least one species in the gas mixture.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one laser device is one of, a tunable diode laser, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, and an interband cascade laser.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein each dynamic measurement includes a concentration and a time of measurement.
4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: at least one transmission device for transmitting the obtained dynamic measurements to a receiver.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one transmission device is a radio-frequency identification tag.
6. The system of claim 4 , further comprising: at least one receiver for receiving the dynamic measurements.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gas mixture analysis system includes a concentration comparison system.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gas mixture analysis system includes a concentration trend comparison system.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a plurality of laser devices.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of laser devices obtains a simultaneous dynamic measurement of the at least one species in the gas mixture.
11. The system of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the plurality of laser devices is calibrated to obtain dynamic measurements of a different species than the at least one species in the gas mixture.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one laser device is a quantum cascade laser.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one laser device is placed within the in-situ non-restrictive flow path of the gas mixture.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the concentration trend comparison system compares the rate of change of the concentration of the at least one species in the gas mixture with a reference rate of change of the concentration of the at least one species in the gas mixture.
15. A method, comprising:
extending a beam with at least one laser device through an in-situ non-restrictive flow path of a gas mixture;
measuring a plurality of dynamic measurements of at least one species in the gas mixture over time, wherein each dynamic measurement includes a concentration and a time of measurement of the concentration; and
monitoring a rate of change of a concentration of the at least one species in the gas mixture.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the at least one laser device is one of a tunable diode laser, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, and an interband cascade laser.
17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising transmitting the obtained dynamic measurements to a receiver.
18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving the dynamic measurements and analyzing the measurements.
19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the analyzing includes calculating a trend of concentration of at least one species.
20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the at least one laser device is a quantum cascade laser.