Gaseous impurities contained in hydrogen (H2) profoundly
affect the performance of hydrogen proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
We demonstrate the utility of cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy as
a unique approach for detection of gaseous impurities. A dense-pattern
multipass cavity which is composed of four spherical mirrors placed
in a Z-shaped configuration is used to enhance the Raman signal by
extending the laser–gas interaction length. A total of 85 spots
are identified on the 2-inch-diameter front (or rear) mirror, which
indicates that 510 beams exist in the cavity. Detection limits of
the impurity gases, including oxygen (O2), nitrogen (N2), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2),
methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), and hydrogen sulfide
(H2S), reach sub-ppm- and ppb-levels at a total pressure
of 0.1 and 2.5 MPa, respectively. This satisfies the detection requirements
according to the maximum allowable concentration for these gases.
Our cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (CERS) apparatus can simultaneously
measure multiple gases with high sensitivity and selectivity with
no sample destruction. It has excellent application prospects in gaseous
impurity analysis for the quality assessment of gaseous energy.
C 2 H 2 and H 2 , as important chemical and energy raw materials, can be produced effectively and environmentally friendly by the partial oxidation (POX) of CH 4 . Simultaneous analysis of intermediate gas compositions in the multiprocess (cracking, recovery, degassing, etc) of POX can regulate product generation and improve production efficiency. To overcome the disadvantage of common gas chromatography, we propose a fluorescence noise eliminating fiberenhanced Raman spectroscopy (FNEFERS) technique for simultaneous and multiprocess analysis of the POX process, in which the fluorescence noise eliminating (FNE) method can effectively eliminate the horizontal and vertical spatial noise to ensure ppm level limits of detection (LOD). The vibration modes of gas compositions related to each POX process such as cracked gas, synthesis gas, and product acetylene are analyzed. Meanwhile, the composition of three-process intermediate sample gases from Sinopec Chongqing SVW Chemical Co., Ltd is quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed simultaneously, along with the ppm level LODs (
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