Hot exhaust gases with passive FTIR emission spectroscopy

Joerg Heland; Klaus Schaefer; Rainer Haus

doi:10.1117/12.332637

15 December 1998 Hot exhaust gases with passive FTIR emission spectroscopy

Joerg Heland, Klaus Schaefer, Rainer Haus

Proceedings Volume 3493, Spectroscopic Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Techniques; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332637
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Passive FTIR emission spectroscopy using a commercial medium resolution instrument with a telescope has been applied to analyze the hot exhaust gases of various combustion sources, such as industrial and building smoke stacks, aircraft engines, flares, and forest fires. To interpret the remotely measured spectra a multi-layer, line-by-line spectra retrieval software using the molecular spectral databases HITRAN and HITEMP has been developed, validated and successfully used to determine the exhaust gas temperatures and the concentrations of CO₂, H₂O, CO, N₂O, CH₄, NO, NO₂, SO₂, and HCl for different combustion conditions of the sources. In this paper the feasibility and the setup of passive IR measurements, the basic theory of radiative transfer and special features of the commercially available spectra analysis code are described. In addition, the results of the different measurement applications are summarized.

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Joerg Heland, Klaus Schaefer, and Rainer Haus "Hot exhaust gases with passive FTIR emission spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 3493, Spectroscopic Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Techniques, (15 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332637

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