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Meng Li

at Ocean Univ of China

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Proceedings Article | 24 October 2017 Paper

Development of a prototype for dissolved CO2 rapid measurement and preliminary tests

Meng Li, Jinjia Guo, Zhihao Zhang, Zhao Luo, Chuan Qin, Ronger Zheng

Proceedings Volume 10461, 104611D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285348

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Carbon dioxide, Tunable diode lasers, Absorption spectroscopy

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The measurements of dissolved CO₂ in seawater is of great significance for the study of global carbon cycle. At present, the commercial sensors used for dissolved CO₂ measurements are mostly equipped with permeable membranes for the purpose of gas-liquid separation, with the advantages of easy operation, low cost, etc.. However, most of these devices measure CO₂ after reaching gas equilibrium, so it takes a few minutes to respond, which limited its applications in rapid measurements. In this paper, a set of prototype was developed for the rapid measurements of dissolved CO₂. The system was built basing the direct absorption TDLAS. To detect the CO₂ absorption line located at 4991.26 cm^-1 , a fiber-coupled DFB laser operating at 2004 nm was selected as the light source. A Herriott type multi-pass cavity with an effective optical path length of 10 m and an inner volume of 90 mL was used for absorption measurements. A detection limit of 26 μatm can be obtained with this compact cavity. To realize the rapid measurements of dissolved CO₂, a degasser with high degassing rate was necessary. A hollow fiber membrane with a large permeable area used in this paper can achieve degassing rate up to 2.88 kPa/min. Benefitted from the high degassing rate of the degasser and high sensitivity of the compact TDLAS system, a rapid measurement of dissolved CO₂ in water can be achieved within 1s time, and the response time of the prototype when the dissolved CO₂ concentration changed abruptly in actual measurement was 15 s. To evaluate the performance of the prototype, comparison measurements were carried out with a commercial mass spectrometer. The dissolved CO₂ in both seawater and tap-water was measured, and the experimental results showed good consistent trends with R² of 0.973 and 0.931. The experimental results proved the feasibility of dissolved CO₂ rapid measurement. In the near future, more system evaluation experiments will be carried out and the system will be further optimized focusing on the underwater in-situ detection system.

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