Adaptation of a military FTS to civilian air toxics measurements
- OPTRA, Inc., Topsfield, MA (United States)
In many ways, the military problem of chemical agent detection is similar to the civilian problem of toxic and related air pollutants detection. A recent program to design a next generation Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) based chemical agent detection system has been funded by the US Army. This program has resulted in an FTS system that has a number of characteristics that make it suitable for applications to the civilian measurement problem. Low power, low weight, and small size lead to low installation, operating and maintenance costs. Innovative use of diode lasers in place of HeNe reference sources leads to long lifetimes and high reliability. Absolute scan position servos allow for highly efficient offset scanning. This paper will relate the performance of this system to present air monitoring requirements.
- OSTI ID:
- 197415
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9405167-; TRN: IM9612%%189
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Measurement of toxic and related air pollutants, Durham, NC (United States), 3-6 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Measurement of toxic and related air pollutants. Proceedings of the 1994 U.S. EPA/A and WMA international symposium; PB: 1075 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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