Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy at high temperatures in industrial boilers and furnaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2003, Pages 6107-6118

  Blevins, Linda G ^a   Shaddix, Christopher R ^a   Sickafoose, Shane M ^a   Walsh, Peter M ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; NATURAL GAS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OXYGEN; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUPERHEATERS;

PARTICLE LOADINGS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0242334679     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006107     Document Type: Article

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