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Industrial application of apodized gas sensor for on-line and in situ measurement of CO and CO2 concentration

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The performance of an apodized gas sensor is demonstrated through simultaneous detection of CO and CO2 absorption lines around 1.57 µm in the recuperator channel of a gas-fired industrial furnace at Shahid Montazeri power plant (SMPP) industry. This led to the concentration measurement of targeted molecules as less than ~ 1% and 9.5%, respectively, at atmospheric pressure and 350 °C, indicating close consistency with the reference data reported by SMPP. A minimum detectable absorption of ~ 0.4 × 10−3, corresponding to a detection sensitivity of ~ 4.8 × 10−9 cm−1 Hz−1/2 is measured in this application.

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Khorsandi, A., Ghavami Sabouri, S. Industrial application of apodized gas sensor for on-line and in situ measurement of CO and CO2 concentration. J Theor Appl Phys 14, 399–409 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40094-020-00396-z

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