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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2018.29.3.119

Development of On-axis Raman Lidar System for Remotely Measuring Hydrogen Gas at Long Distance  

Choi, In Young (Division of Quantum Optics, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Baik, Sung Hoon (Division of Quantum Optics, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lim, Jae Young (Division of R&D Center, Korea Nuclear Technology Co., Ltd.)
Cha, Jung Ho (Division of R&D Center, Korea Nuclear Technology Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Jin Ho (Division of R&D Center, Korea Nuclear Technology Co., Ltd.)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.29, no.3, 2018 , pp. 119-125 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hydrogen gas is an important and promising energy resource that has no emissions of pollutants during power generation. However, hydrogen gas is very dangerous because it is colorless, odorless, highly flammable, and explosive at low concentration. Conventional techniques for hydrogen gas detection are very difficult for measuring the hydrogen gas distribution at long distances, because they sample the gas to measure its concentration. Raman lidar is one of the techniques for remotely detecting hydrogen gas and measuring the range of the hydrogen gas distribution. A Raman lidar system with an on-axis optical receiver was developed to improve the range of hydrogen gas detection at long distance. To verify the accuracy and improvement in the range of detecting the hydrogen gas, experiments measuring the hydrogen gas concentration are carried out using the developed on-axis Raman lidar system and a gas chamber, to prevent explosion of the hydrogen gas. As a result, our developed on-axis Raman lidar system can measure a minimum hydrogen gas concentration of 0.66 volume percent at a distance of 50 m.
Keywords
Raman lidar system; Hydrogen gas; On-axis optical receiver; Raman scattering signal;
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