High-sensitivity interference-free diagnostic for measurement of methane in shock tubes

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-87

  Sur, Ritobrata ^a   Wang, Shengkai ^a   Sun, Kai ^a   Davidson, David F ^a   Jeffries, Jay B ^a   Hanson, Ronald K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High temperature; Laser diagnostics; Methane; Shock tube; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ETHYLENE; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; METHANE; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SPECTROSCOPY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT MEASUREMENTS; ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERMEDIATE SPECIE; KINETICS EXPERIMENTS; MINIMUM DETECTABLE LEVEL; SHOCK TUBE EXPERIMENT;

SHOCK TUBES;

ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METHANE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84923090075     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2015.01.023     Document Type: Article

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