In situ measurements of nitric oxide in coal-combustion exhaust using a sensor based on a widely tunable external-cavity GaN diode laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3946-3957

  Anderson, Thomas N ^a,b   Lucht, Robert P ^a   Priyadarsan, Soyuz ^c   Annamalai, Kalyan ^c   Caton, Jerald A ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COAL COMBUSTION; EXHAUST GASES; GALLIUM NITRIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSORS;

COAL COMBUSTION EXHAUST; EXHAUST STREAM; EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASERS (ECDL);

NITRIC OXIDE;

BORIC ACID; COAL; NITRIC OXIDE; TETRABORATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; BORATES; COAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASERS; NITRIC OXIDE; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447544664     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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