The invention relates to the technical field of TDLAS (
Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy)
gas monitoring, in particular to a
methane and ethane dual-gas detection method based on an intermediate
infrared laser. A DAC pin of a single-
chip microcomputer is adopted to output sawtooth scanning signals modulated by superposition sine
waves, by adjusting the amplitude of the sawtooth scanning signals, the
wavelength of light emitted by a
laser is controlled to be 3344.4 nm and 3345.8 nm, meanwhile, the positions of absorption peaks of ethane and
methane are covered, simultaneous detection of
methane and methane is achieved, and the detection precision is high. The methane scanning
signal and the ethane scanning
signal can be independently modulated by changing the amplitude of sine
waves of different wave bands of the sawtooth scanning
signal, so that the signal-to-
noise ratio of single gas detection is increased, the sensitivity is higher, and the ppb level can be easily reached. According to the method, the
single chip microcomputer is adopted to output scanning signals, sine
waves with different modulation amplitudes can be output in a quick response mode, use is more flexible, cost reduction is facilitated, and the detection precision of single gas is greatly improved by independently modulating different gas scanning signals.