New App Note on Using Lasers to Detect Greenhouse Gases From RPMC Lasers Inc.
Detection methods have come a long way from the days of the "canary in the coal mine."
O'FALLON, Mo., July 2, 2019 (Newswire.com) - RPMC Lasers Inc has published a new Application Note on using lasers to detect greenhouse gases. Methane gas is not only highly flammable, but the fact that it is odorless, colorless, and lighter than air means that it possesses the simultaneous risk of explosion and asphyxiation. It is also a significant greenhouse gas; even though it doesn't linger in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, methane is far more effective at absorbing heat, meaning its greenhouse effects, while shorter-lived, can be far more devastating. For all of these reasons, it is easy to see why methane detection in both the open atmosphere and confined spaces is critical.
Detection methods have come a long way from the days of the “canary in the coal mine,” where a canary bird was taken down into the mineshaft so that if there were a spike in the amount of methane in the atmosphere, the canary would pass out first, alerting the workers to evacuate. These days, there is a wide range of measurement methodologies used for methane detection, but in this application note, RPMC Lasers Inc focuses primarily on a technique known as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS).
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Source: RPMC Lasers, Inc
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