IP Library Granted Patent US 12,066,418
Granted Patent B2
US 12,066,418 · App. 17/609,211 · Granted Aug 20, 2024

Method for measuring concentration of fluorine gas contained in halogen fluoride-containing gas by ultra violet spectroscopy

Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Resonac Corporation
G01N33/0052G01N21/01G01N21/255G01N21/314G01N21/33G01N2021/0112
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Patent No.
US 12,066,418
App. No.
17/609,211
Granted
Aug 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for measuring the concentration of fluorine gas, which includes irradiating a halogen fluoride-containing gas with ultraviolet light in which the ratio (W X /W F ) of the maximum value (W X ) of ultraviolet light intensity in the wavelength region of less than 250 nm with respect to the ultraviolet light intensity (W F ) at a wavelength of 285 nm is 1/10 or less, and measuring the absorbance at a wavelength of 285 nm to obtain the concentration of fluorine gas contained in the halogen fluoride-containing gas.

Claims (20)

1. A method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas, the method comprising:

irradiating a halogen fluoride-containing gas with ultraviolet light in which a ratio (W X /W F ) of a maximum value (W X ) of ultraviolet light intensity in a wavelength region of less than 250 nm with respect to an ultraviolet light intensity (W F ) at a wavelength of 285 nm is 1/10 or less; and

measuring an absorbance at a wavelength of 285 nm to obtain a concentration of fluorine gas contained in the halogen fluoride-containing gas.

2. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

using a means for suppressing irradiation with ultraviolet light of wavelengths of less than 250 nm, the halogen fluoride-containing gas is irradiated with ultraviolet light of wavelengths of not less than 250 nm from a light source.

3. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

the means is to irradiate the ultraviolet light irradiated from the light source to the halogen fluoride-containing gas via a filter that blocks at least 50% of the ultraviolet light with a wavelength of less than 250 nm and transmits at least 90% of the ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 280-290 nm.

4. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

the halogen fluoride is one kind of gas selected from the group consisting of chlorine trifluoride, bromine pentafluoride, iodine heptafluoride, bromine trifluoride, and iodine pentafluoride.

5. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

the halogen fluoride is iodine heptafluoride.

6. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

the halogen fluoride is bromine pentafluoride, and

the maximum value (W X ) of ultraviolet light intensity in the wavelength region of less than 250 nm is a maximum value of ultraviolet light intensity in a wavelength region of less than 225 nm.

7. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

the halogen fluoride is chlorine trifluoride, and

the maximum value (W X ) of ultraviolet light intensity in the wavelength region of less than 250 nm is a maximum value of ultraviolet light intensity in a wavelength region of less than 215 nm.

8. The method for measuring a concentration of fluorine gas according to claim 1 , wherein

an absorption spectrum measured by irradiating a reference gas with the ultraviolet light is subtracted from an absorption spectrum measured by irradiating the halogen fluoride-containing gas with the ultraviolet light, and

the concentration of fluorine gas is obtained from an absorbance at a wavelength of 285 nm of an obtained absorption spectrum.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 9, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066547/0677 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 23, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064082/0513 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2021
From: SUZUKI, ATSUSHI
To: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
Reel/Frame 058038/0463 →