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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1996
R. Neal Harvey, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Allen F. Dageforde, Orange, CA (US);
Horiba Instruments, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus adapted for analyzing exhaust emissions by using a small fraction of a continuously-extracted exhaust sample combined with a pollutant-free diluent through a system of critical flow orifices at a predetermined and precisely controlled flow ratio. A small quantity of gas is extracted from the diluted exhaust gas available which is diluted with the contaminant-free air or nitrogen to produce a mixture having a dew point below ambient air temperature and satisfying the flow requirements of the analysis system. The diluted sample may then be analyzed to obtain the total mass of pollutants through identification of the instantaneous exhaust concentration rate and the exhaust mass flow rate or through identification of the concentration of pollutants collected in a sample bag and the total exhaust volume.