Sick Engineering Gmbh

Alexander Schladitz

Kai Klinder

An optical analysis device for determining particulate matter includes three light sources having different wavelengths, an apparatus for combining the three transmitted light beams on a common optical path, a measurement volume, an optical axis in the forward scattering direction defines the scattering angle 0&#xb0;, a light absorption apparatus at 0&#xb0; that absorbs unscattered light, and six detectors which are arranged at different specified angles which are as close as possible to 0&#xb0; directly next to the light absorption apparatus, at a second scattering angle between 7&#xb0; and 40&#xb0;, at a third scattering angle between 41&#xb0; and 70&#xb0;, at a fourth scattering angle between 71&#xb0; and 115&#xb0;, at a fifth scattering angle between 116&#xb0; and 145&#xb0;, at a sixth scattering angle between 146&#xb0; and 180&#xb0;. A control and evaluation unit controls the light sources such that the scattered light is detected in a wavelength selective manner by the detectors.

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Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany

Alexander Schladitz