Aerodyne Research, Inc.

Charles E Kolb

David D Nelson, Jr

Mark Stuart Zahniser

Scott Christopher Herndon

J Barry McManus

John T Jayne

Douglas R Worsnop

John Barry McManus

A non-contact, extractive sampling system and method is provided for measuring the exhaust gas composition and fine particle composition of exhaust emissions of various types of vehicles under actual operating conditions. A portion (or sample) of an exhaust plume of a vehicle is pulled or extracted through an extraction sampling tube, via a vacuum pump, to a remote trace gas detection system where the concentration of one or more constituents present in the sample of exhaust plume may be measured. In this regard, the invention enables vehicle emissions measurements to be made at a location remote from roadway, rather than using known, 'cross-path' remote emissions sensing systems.

Extractive sampling system and method for measuring one or more molecular species

The principle object of the invention is to provide an improved particle analyzer for analyzing particles contained in a gaseous medium. A more specific object is to provide a particle analyzer that provides a measure of the concentration of particles of various sizes in the atmosphere and the make up of the particles of various sizes. A more specific object is to provide an analyzer of the foregoing type which is small inexpensive and suitable for unattended use in the field.

Atmospheric-particle analyzer

A cross-road motor vehicle exhaust gas analyzer uses tunable infrared laser differential absorption spectroscopy incorporating photon infrared detection to determine the absolute fractional absorption of a laser by the gaseous medium. Spectroscopic constants of the gaseous species of interest are applied to the absolute fractional absorption to calculate the pertinent absolute column densities. In addition to a laser that sweeps across one or more absorption line of an component of interest, the system of the invention includes a laser source tunable over an absorption line of a reference species; the calculated column density of the reference species is used to normalize the concentration of the component of interest to the fuel consumption rate of the motor vehicle.

Laser system for cross-road measurement of motor vehicle exhaust gases

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Sudbury, MA, United States of America

Charles E Kolb