TDLAS Detection of propane and butane gas over the near-infrared wavelength range from 1678nm to 1686nm
Wang, Y., Jiang, T., Wei, Y. , Liu, T., Sun, T. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3861-8933 & Grattan, K. T. V. ORCID: 0000-0003-2250-3832 (2018).
TDLAS Detection of propane and butane gas over the near-infrared wavelength range from 1678nm to 1686nm.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1065(25),
article number 252006.
doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1065/25/252006
Abstract
It is important in the petrochemical industry that there are high sensitivity, high accuracy, low-power consumption and intrinsically safe methods for the detection of propane, butane and their gas mixtures, to provide early warning of potential explosion hazards during both storage and transportation of oil and gas. This paper proposes a 'proof of principle' method for the detection of propane and butane using a Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) technique over the near-infrared wavelength range from 1678nm to 1686nm. This method is relatively inexpensive to implement and is thus more practical, compared with detection methods using wavelengths further into the infra-red, near 3.3μm. The minimum detectable concentration was found to be low as 300ppm for propane or butane. Importantly, the relative measurement errors were all below 3% LEL, which meets the requirements from the petrochemical and oil-gas storage and transportation industries for a field-based system for monitoring of combustible gases.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Departments: | School of Science & Technology > Engineering |
Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0.
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