A novel CO2 gas analyzer based on IR absorption

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) gas analyzer can be widely used in many fields. A novel CO₂ gas analyzer based on infrared ray (IR) absorption is presented sufficiently in this paper. Applying Lambert–Beer Law, a novel space-double-beam optical structure is established successfully. The optical structure includes an IR source, a gas cell, a bandpass filter with a transmission wavelength at 4.26 μm, another bandpass filter with a transmission wavelength at 3.9 μm, and two IR detectors. Based on Redial Basic Function (RBF) artificial neural network, the measuring model of IR CO₂ analyzer is established with a high accuracy. A dynamic compensation filter is effectively designed to improve the dynamic characteristic of the IR CO₂ analyzer without gas pump. The IR CO₂ analyzer possesses the advantages of high accuracy and mechanical reliability with small volume, lightweight, and low-power consumption. Therefore, it can be used in such relevant fields as environmental protection, processing control, chemical analysis, medical diagnosis, and space environmental and control systems.