Open-Path Near Real-Time Full Wall Emissions Monitoring Method

摘要

The invention is a combination of two prior arts (one being a tower elevator system and the other an open-path monitoring system) in order to perform automated “full wall” monitoring of an emission source. The system will allow an open-path detection system to take near real-time readings of the compounds present in the full area between the towers (both rectangular and triangular areas as shown in FIG. 1) by allowing either the retroreflector, or both the retroreflector and an open-path monitoring device to traverse the height of the towers. Sampled air is continuously monitored as the instrument traverses the tower. This is essentially a method for obtaining the impact of an emission source on the environment by acquiring a virtual “wall” of sampled air through automated and synchronized vertical movement and operation (both upstream and downstream of the source) of an open path detection method.