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  • Microwave Engineering
  • Chemical Sensing
  • Instrumentation

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  • Volatile gas detection is crucial for environmental monitoring and industrial safety.
  • Existing methods often face challenges with sensitivity, selectivity, and environmental factors.
  • Microwave sensors offer potential for non-invasive and sensitive gas analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel microwave sensor system for quantitative volatile gas detection.
  • To integrate rectangular cavity resonators (RCRs) with multiport demodulation circuitry.
  • To establish a real-time monitoring platform with high sensitivity and environmental robustness.

Main Methods:

  • Design and experimental validation of a pump-through gas sensing element using RCRs.
  • Integration of reference and sensing RCR elements within a rat-race coupler-based multiport demodulation network.
  • Characterization of the phase shift to power output relationship for gas concentration estimation.
  • Development of a LabVIEW-based platform for real-time data acquisition and analysis.

Main Results:

  • Successful experimental validation of the RCR sensing element's functionality.
  • Demonstration of the multiport network's principle and the quantitative link between phase shift and power output.
  • Achieved excellent detection limits: 300 ppm for acetone and 200 ppm for ethanol.
  • Exhibited robust mitigation of artifacts from ambient temperature and humidity fluctuations.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed multiport network and RCR architecture provide an effective platform for volatile gas sensing.
  • The integrated system offers high sensitivity, real-time monitoring capabilities, and environmental stability.
  • This novel approach advances microwave-based sensing for accurate volatile compound analysis.