In recent years, gas sensing methods by jointly measuring
acoustic relaxation absorption and sound speeds have become a
research focus in acoustic fields. However, the existing methods are
difficult to be employed in practical gas detection due to complex
measurement processes and large measurement errors when measuring
the sound relaxational absorption. Furthermore, the acoustic
relaxation absorption spectrum's small signal is hard to be measured
because of the noise and large classical relaxation in the
high-frequency range. In this paper, a gas sensing method is
proposed by only measuring the sound speeds at the three
frequencies, avoiding the problems of measuring the acoustic
absorption spectrum. First, sound speeds are measured at three
frequency points; second, the relaxation strength and the relaxation
time of the acoustic relaxation features are extracted; finally, the
absorption spectral peak is acquired and located for gas
detection. The simulation results verify the feasibility of our
method, and the detection errors from the measurement errors of
sound speeds can be eliminated effectively. Thus, our work provides
a high-accurate and simple acoustic method for gas sensing.