一种新型高精度甲烷浓度检测系统的研究

在气体浓度检测过程中采用特征光谱吸收法时，提高气体浓度检测精度常常需要采用高质量窄带激光器并调制其波长使其对准被测气体特征吸收峰的方法，这样大大增加了对激光器的要求及系统成本。为了在采用原有便携式、低成本固体激光器的条件下获取更高的检测精度，设计了转换窗差分吸收光学结构以及特征吸收差分比例算法。分析了特征波长位置选择的依据，给出了实现该处理算法的步骤。系统利用转换窗与吸收气室组合的方法，将非特征吸收峰位置上的光强响应通过求比值的方法约掉，从而实现了与采用窄带激光器对准特征吸收峰位置相近的检测效果。实验采用MW-IR-1650型红外激光器、SSM17-2型步进电机控制模块、C30659型红外探测器等器件，对不同浓度的甲烷气体进行测试，结果显示在200～5 000 ppm之间测量相对误差基本在2.0%以内。证明了该系统具有较高的检测精度及稳定性。

Research on a Novel High-Precision Methane Concentration Detection Sy s te m

In the gas concentration detection process using the characteristic spectrum absorption method, in order to improve the detection accuracy of the gas concentration, it often has to use the high-quality narrowband modulated laser and modulate wavelength to align with the characteristic absorption peaks of measured gas. But by this way, the cost of the laser and system requirements will be greatly increased. To use the existing portable, low-cost semiconductor laser conditions, at the same time it can obtain higher precision, conversion window differential absorption optical structure and the algorithm of differential characteristic absorption ratio was designed. Selection reason of position of the wavelength characteristic was analyzed, and steps to implement the processing algorithm were given. Systematically utilizing the combination method of conversion window and absorption gas chamber, by the method for calculating the ratio of the light intensity response, the light intensity from non-characteristic absorption peak position was divided out. So it achieved a similar detecting effect was achieved that used a narrow-band laser aligned to the feature absorption peak position. Experiments adopted MW-IR-1650 infrared laser, type SSM17-2 stepper motor control module, C30659 infrared detectors, and other devices. In the experiments, different concentrations of methane gas were tested, and experimental results show that the relative error of measurement was less than 2.0% within the range from 200 to 5 000 ppm. In summary, it’s proved that the system has high accuracy and stability.