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Temperature calibration methods and apparatus for optical absorption gas sensors, and optical absorption gas sensors thereby calibrated
Temperature calibration methods and apparatus for optical absorption gas sensors, and optical absorption gas sensors thereby calibrated
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机译:用于光学吸收气体传感器的温度校准方法和装置,以及由此校准的光学吸收气体传感器
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An optical absorption gas sensor has an LED light source and a photodiode light detector, a temperature measuring device for measuring the LED temperature and a temperature measuring device for measuring the photodiode temperature. The sensor is calibrated by measuring the response of photodiode current at zero analyte gas concentration and at a reference analyte gas concentration. From these measurement, calibration data taking into account the effect of photodiode temperature on the sensitivity of the photodiode and, independently, the effect of changes in the spectrum of light output by the LED on the light detected by the photodiode with LED temperature can be obtained. Calibration data is written to memory in the gas sensor and in operation of the gas sensor, the output is compensated for both LED and photodiode temperature. The LED and photodiode can therefore be relatively far apart and operate at significantly different temperatures allowing greater freedom of optical pathway design.
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