Real-timemonitoring of benzene, toluene, and p-xylene in a photoreaction chamber with a tunable mid-infrared laser and ultraviolet differential optical absorption spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Parsons, Matthew T ^a   Sydoryk, Ihor ^a   Lim, Alan ^a   McIntyre, Thomas J ^a   Tulip, John ^a   Jäger, Wolfgang ^a   McDonald, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; GASES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; CHEMICAL PROCESSING; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; GAS-PHASE CONCENTRATION; HYDROXYL RADICALS; MIDINFRARED LASERS; QUANTITATION LIMITS; ULTRAVIOLET DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

BENZENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERE; BENZENE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

EID: 79551530736     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000A90     Document Type: Article

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