Detection of potentially explosive methane levels using a solid-state infrared source

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3088-3095

  Leis, John ^a   Buttsworth, David ^a   Snook, Chris ^a   Holmes, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gas leak detection; infrared (IR) spectroscopy; natural gas; signal processing; synchronous detection

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GAS LEAK DETECTION; INFRARED SOURCE; SYNCHRONOUS DETECTION;

NATURAL GAS;

EID: 84909642556     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2327457     Document Type: Article

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