AIR & WATER

MONITORING NEWSLETTER  

March 2013
No. 401

OptoAcoustic Has Advantages in Gas Measurement

OptoAcoustic gas detection determines gas content via the measurement of acoustic pressure waves that are propagated as a gas is irradiated under an appropriately-tune light. Dr. Mourad Baraket, writing in Pipeline & Gas Journal, compares the optoacoustic detector to infrared and catalytic.

The OptoAcoustic sensor requires less frequent maintenance due essentially to its embedded self-diagnostics, false alarm rejection and temperature compensation algorithms.

Detectors for additional hydrocarbons such as ethane, ethylene, pentane, propylene hexane as well as liquid hydrocarbons are also available upon request.

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