1651 results about "Gas monitoring" patented technology

A method and apparatus for improving measurement accuracy in a gas monitoring system is provided. The apparatus can be connected to a plurality of gas sample lines each containing a gas sample. The gas samples are routed through a number of delivery channels which are fewer in number than the plurality of sample lines. Each delivery channel is alternatively coupled to a detector which identifies contaminants present in the gas samples. Each delivery channel includes a voltage sensitive orifice (VSO). The VSO's are operated by a controller and provide gas samples at a constant flow and a constant pressure to the detector independent of the length of the gas sample line being measured.

Gas detection or monitoring apparatus mainly comprising, an optical source unit including a tunable diode laser, an optical detection unit including a light sensitive detector, the source and the detector being arranged so that light from the source propagates through a gas measurement volume prior to being received by the detector, and the source being adapted to scan the light wavelength across one or more expected absorption lines of gases in the measurement volume, a control and processing unit for control and modulation of the source and processing of the detected signal and for calculating at least one digital value representing (a) gas concentrations in the gas measurement volume, wherein said control and processing unit is coupled to the source via a digital-to-analogue (D / A) converter, and the detector output signal is coupled to the input of an analogue-to-digital (A / D) converter, and the output of the A / D converter is coupled to the processing unit.

A face mask including a gas monitoring capability for improved patient management in combination with improved efficiency of supplemental oxygen delivery to the patient is provided. The face mask of the present invention is configured to direct substantially all of the inspiratory and expiratory gas streams to and from the patient through a gas measuring device and to efficiently deliver supplemental oxygen. As such, the face mask permits measurement of both oral and nasal gas exchange.

A sensor device for detecting the presence of a gas species in a gas environment susceptible to the presence of same. The sensor device may include a piezoelectric crystal coated with a sensor material having adsorptive affinity for the gas species, with an electric oscillator arranged for applying an oscillating electric field to the piezoelectric crystal to generate an output frequency therefrom indicative of the presence of the gas species when present in the gas environment, when the gas environment is exposed to the piezoelectric crystal. Another aspect of the invention involves a porous polymeric material that may be employed as a sensor material on a piezoelectric crystal sensor device, as well as a quartz microbalance holder that enables reactor gas monitoring. The sensor device alternatively may comprise an optical sensor arranged in a non-contaminating fashion in relation to the gas environment being monitored.

The current invention provides a wireless monitoring system. The system has one or more monitoring devices. Each device can transmit data and receive messages from an output center or alarm system. The output center can also transmit and receive messages. Both the output center and each device preferably have a transceiver that enables both the transmission and receipt of messages. No remote terminal units hardwiring is required for the system to function. The system is truly a wireless gas monitoring system. The system may use low earth orbit satellite technology, or licensed radio frequencies or any other means to wirelessly transmit and receive messages.

A gas sensor for sensing the presence of a gas includes an IR source, a microphone, a reference gas substantially similar to the gas to be detected, a reference body defining a reference chamber therein, the reference chamber having a pressure port coupled to the microphone, and a broad-band optical window through which at least IR wavelengths corresponding to absorption peaks of the predetermined gas may pass. The window is disposed between the IR source and reference chamber. The reference gas is contained within the reference chamber between the optical window and the microphone. The sensor can be included in a hand-held gas detection instrument having power supply, an outer shell, a circuit board assembly including sensor circuitry, a suction pump, actuation controls and status indicators. A probe defining a lumen therethrough supplies the sample gas.

A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas and landfill well parameters. The portable monitor includes a control unit and a measuring unit that can communicate wirelessly with one another. The control unit and / or measuring unit can include a heating arrangement to increase the temperature of one or more components in the control unit and / or measuring unit in cold environments.

The current invention discloses a wireless monitoring system. The system has one or more monitoring devices. Each device can transmit data and receive messages from an output center or alarm system. The output center can also transmit and receive messages. Both the output center and each device preferably have a transceiver that enables both the transmission and receipt of messages. No remote terminal units or hardwiring is required for the system to function. The system is truly a wireless gas monitoring system. The system may use low earth orbit satellite technology, or licensed radio frequencies or any other means to wirelessly transmit and receive messages.

A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas and landfill well parameters. The portable monitor includes a control unit and a measuring unit that can communication wirelessly with one another. The control unit and / or measuring unit can includes a heating arrangement to increase the temperature of one or more components in the control unit and / or measuring unit in cold environments.

The present invention discloses methods and system for coal mine downhole personnel locating and mash gas concentration dynamic monitoring, the system includes: CAN bus network, wireless sensor network and data conversion device. CAN network connects with wireless transducing network connections by data switching device, and by using wireless sensor network self-organizing, multi- skip, data acquisition and processing, and wireless communicating characteristic, the invention designs a system about out-in well personnel work attendance and moving vehicle zone location in coal mine well, and a system for monitoring gas dynamic concentration. The system and method overcome the current deficiency of operating gas monitoring system and personnel position location system respectively, not only personnel zone location and dynamic gas testing is realized, but also allocation is obtained about personnel arrangement and moving mechanical equipment before the accident, this provides reliable data for rescuing miner and avoiding second disaster.

A multilane motor vehicle exhaust remote measuring device comprises a vehicle road condition recognizing unit, a license plate recording unit, a vehicle velocity and acceleration measuring unit, a polluted gas monitoring unit by using infrared and ultraviolet absorption spectrometry and a control and data analysis / processing unit. The device can obtain the real-time condition of vehicle driving on one-way or two-way multilane pavement, accurately obtain various exhaust concentrations, velocity, acceleration and license plate number when only one vehicle drives on multiple lanes in a short time and complete preliminary exhaust analysis and license plate obtainment when a plurality of vehicles drive on multiple lanes simultaneously.

Measurement approaches and data analysis methods are disclosed for combining 3D topographic data with spatially-registered gas concentration data to increase the efficiency of gas monitoring and leak detection tasks. Here, the metric for efficiency is defined as reducing the measurement time required to achieve the detection, or non-detection, of a gas leak with a desired confidence level. Methods are presented for localizing and quantifying detected gas leaks. Particular attention is paid to the combination of 3D spatial data with path-integrated gas concentration measurements acquired using remote gas sensing technologies, as this data can be used to determine the path-averaged gas concentration between the sensor and points in the measurement scene. Path-averaged gas concentration data is useful for finding and quantifying localized regions of elevated (or anomalous) gas concentration making it ideal for a variety of applications including: oil and gas pipeline monitoring, facility leak and emissions monitoring, and environmental monitoring.

An arrangement and method for detecting spontaneous respiratory effort of a patient receiving ventilatory support by a breathing circuit. The nasal cannula control system includes a nasal cannula assembly having two distinct lumens. A different pressure sensor is positioned to detect the pressure difference between each of the two lumens, thereby determining the differential pressure from within the patient's nostrils and within a breathing mask. The nasal cannula control system includes a gas sampling system such that the amount of a monitored gas discharged or exhaled by the patient can be monitored using the same nasal cannula assembly used to generate the differential pressure signal.

An improved optical configuration for use in a gas monitoring system. The optical system uses a high numerical aperture lens that maximizes capture of relatively large angle rays, thereby increasing the measured signal at the infrared radiation detector. In one embodiment of the present invention, a half-ball-type lens is provided proximal to the infrared radiation source in the gas measurement system. To further increase the measured signal at the infrared radiation detector and allow more efficient capture of the larger angle rays, materials that are reflective in the infrared band of interest are used, so that the walls of the sample cell act as a hollow light pipe.

An arrangement and method for detecting spontaneous respiratory effort of a patient receiving ventilatory support by a breathing circuit. The nasal cannula control system includes a nasal cannula assembly having two distinct lumens. A different pressure sensor is positioned to detect the pressure difference between each of the two lumens, thereby determining the differential pressure from within the patient's nostrils and within a breathing mask. The nasal cannula control system includes a gas sampling system such that the amount of a monitored gas discharged or exhaled by the patient can be monitored using the same nasal cannula assembly used to generate the differential pressure signal.

A water trap system based on a thermoelectric cooling device is employed to remove a major fraction of the water from air samples, prior to analysis of these samples for chemical composition, by a variety of analytical techniques where water vapor interferes with the measurement process. These analytical techniques include infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry and gas chromatography. The thermoelectric system for trapping water present in air samples can substantially improve detection sensitivity in these analytical techniques when it is necessary to measure trace analytes with concentrations in the ppm (parts per million) or ppb (parts per billion) partial pressure range. The thermoelectric trap design is compact and amenable to use in a portable gas monitoring instrumentation.

A gas monitoring device for monitoring gas levels within a chamber is provided. The gas monitoring device includes a housing having a probe with a sensor disposed on the probe. The probe extends through the housing and into a chamber such that the sensor is within the chamber. The housing includes a first passageway disposed about the probe and second passageway disposed about the first passageway. During operation of the gas monitoring device, a temperature adjusting medium enters the second passageway through an inlet of the housing and then enters into the first passageway via the second passageway. As the temperature adjusting medium travels through the first passageway, the temperature adjusting medium adjusts the temperature of the probe. The temperature adjusting medium adjusts the temperature of the probe through thermal conduction. As the temperature of the probe adjusts, the temperature of the sensor also adjusts through thermal conduction.

The invention relates to an identification system of a smoke intensity image of tail gas of a diesel vehicle. The identification system consists of a vehicle detection unit, a license plate identifying and processing unit, a vehicle velocity and acceleration measuring unit, a vehicle tail gas monitoring unit and a central data processing unit. The identification system provided by the invention can acquire the real-time condition of a vehicle running on the roadway, and accurately acquire tail gas smoke intensity level, velocity, acceleration and license plate number of the vehicle running on the roadway in a short time.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a comprehensive monitoring system and method for a power cable tunnel, wherein the system comprises: a cable body information monitoring mechanism and a tunnelenvironment monitoring auxiliary mechanism, wherein the cable body information monitoring mechanism comprises a ring current monitoring subsystem, a local discharge monitoring subsystem, and a fibertemperature measuring subsystem, wherein the tunnel environment monitoring auxiliary mechanism comprises a video monitoring subsystem, a security subsystem, a firefighting subsystem, a fan / water pump / lighting control subsystem, a toxic harmful gas monitoring subsystem, a personnel positioning subsystem, a robot inspection subsystem, a wireless communication subsystem, and a tunnel tamper-proof monitoring subsystem.

A system and method for measuring fluid flow rate in a system where fluid is pumped, such as a gas monitoring instrument where gas is pumped from a space such as a room or enclosure through a conduit to a sensor. The flow of gas through a pump is determined by measuring motor back-e.m.f. which is proportional to motor speed. In a system where motor speed is regulated by pulse width modulation of the motor drive voltage, the back-e.m.f. is sampled during intervals between the drive pulses applied to the motor, and in a further aspect the sampling is done at selected, spaced-apart or infrequent intervals such as once for every ten or once for every hundred motor drive pulses. Advantageously, in an instrument that uses a microprocessor and analog-to-digital converter to measure gas-concentration, the same microprocessor and converter can provide the PWM control of the pump, in response to the back-e.m.f. generated by the pump motor between the drive pulses. The microprocessor compares the output of the analog-to-digital converter, corresponding to the back-e.m.f., which in turn corresponds to the pump motor speed, to a set-point value, representative of the desired pump motor speed. The processor then adjusts the PWM to control the pump motor to achieve and maintain the desired speed. As a result, in a gas monitor, the gas-flow rate may be maintained close to a desired gas flow rate regardless of the voltage supplied by the battery or other voltage source, regardless of the degree to which the gas is filtered, and under a wide range of operating conditions.

The gas monitoring system may include a gas line, an oxygen sensor, a filter, a pump, a indicator, and a controller. The gas line is configured to convey gas from a space configured to receive inert gas to a location remote from the space. The oxygen sensor is fluidly coupled to the gas line at the location. The oxygen sensor is configured to determine a partial pressure of oxygen present in the gas. The filter is fluidly coupled to the gas line between the space and the location. The filter is configured to remove combustible contaminants from the gas before it reaches the oxygen sensor. The controller is electrically coupled to the oxygen sensor and to the indicator. The controller is configured to activate the indicator when the partial pressure of oxygen exceeds a predetermined level.

The invention relates to the technical field of coal mine safety, in particular to a continuous prediction method of gas emission dynamic characteristic outburst of a tunneling surface, which utilizes the development state and the development trend of three factors of outburst comprehensive hypothesis of the tunneling surface of gas emission dynamic characteristic reaction of the tunneling surface and realizes the non-contact type continuous prediction technology of coal of the tunneling surface and gas outburst; and the method comprises the following steps: acquiring real-time gas emission monitoring data of an underground gas sensor from a coal mine gas monitoring system; extracting dynamic characteristics of gas emission of the tunneling surface, including average value of frequency ofthe monitoring data of the gas emission, the maximum value of the frequency per minute of the monitoring data of the gas emission and the movement minimum value of the frequency per t minutes of the gas emission; and acquiring the shape design characteristic parameters of a lane, the original desorbable gas content of a coal layer, wind rate and frequency time, sequentially acquiring characteristic index of the gas emission rate of the tunneling surface, gas desorption index and gas dividing source characteristic index, and carrying out real-time prediction and forecast of outburst risk of a working surface according to the states and the trends of the three characteristic indexes.

The invention relates to a smoke gas on-line monitoring system and a smoke gas on-line monitoring method, and aims at providing the smoke gas monitoring system and the monitoring method which have the advantages of being simple in structure, high in automation degree and accurate in monitoring. The system comprises a pitot pitometer, a smoke gas sampler, a particulate matter monitor, sampling pipelines and demarcating pipelines, wherein the pitot pitometer, the smoke gas sampler and the particulate matter monitor are all provided with anti-purging devices, signal receiving terminals of all the anti-purging devices are respectively connected with a central controller, and all the anti-purging devices are controlled by the central controller to regularly purge. Smoke gas collected by the smoke gas sampler successively passes through a first refrigerator, a gas filter, a second refrigerator and a membrane type filter, the collected smoke gas is cooled and filtered by the first refrigerator, the gas filter, the second refrigerator and the membrane type filter, and the rest smoke gas finally obtained is fed into a multicomponent gas analysis instrument to be analyzed and detected. For the system, whole calibrated pipelines and partial calibrated pipelines are also arranged, so that the analysis instrument in a line can be wholly calibrated and partially calibrated.

The present invention discloses a blockchain-based carbon trading system, relates to the technical field of greenhouse gas monitoring and block chains. The carbon trading system comprises: a carbon emission measurement module configured to measure carbon emission of greenhouse gas to generate carbon emission data, a block chain carbon emission checking module configured to add a timestamp onto the carbon emission data to generate carbon emission information, a carbon emission reduction calculation module configured to measure carbon emission reduction of reduced greenhouse gas to generate carbon emission reduction data, and a block chain carbon emission reduction checking module configured to add a timestamp onto the carbon emission reduction data to check the generated carbon emission reduction information.