Single Spectral Line Method for TDLAS Imaging of Temperature and Water Vapor Concentration

A single spectral line method for gas temperature as well as concentration extraction was proposed by using iterations with a fuzzy proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller in tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS). Usually, two or more spectral lines are essential to extract temperatures from coupled gas concentration and pressure. The proposed method utilized the line shape of a single absorption spectrum to decouple gas parameters along the laser path simultaneously and simplified the optical implementations. Differential equations of the Voigt profile were introduced at multiple wavenumbers to extract gas parameters from a single spectral line. A fuzzy PID controller was utilized to iteratively achieve the single spectral line from widely existed overlapping spectra. A relative temperature error within 2.5% at reference temperatures ranged from 300 to 2300 K was achieved by using the spectral line of 7444.35,,{mathrm {cm}}^{-1} from noise free data. At low temperatures below 350 K, the proposed method using the single spectral line of 7181.14,,{mathrm {cm}}^{-1} yielded smaller errors in noisy cases, and the temperature errors were verified within 5 °C on the water-based thermostat below 100 °C using the single spectral line. Experiments of axisymmetric counterflow flames at different heights were also implemented. The proposed method effectively reconstructed distributions of flame temperature and water vapor concentration inside, by only using a single spectral line of 7444.35,,{mathrm {cm}}^{-1}.