In Situ Oil-Gas Separator Enabled Carrier-Free Photoacoustic Sensing of Acetylene
Weitao Dou1, Xitong Sun1, Yanping Gao1
1School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Abstract:
In this work, a carrier-free photoacoustic spectroscopy system is developed for the detection of trace acetylene gas in insulating oil. The photoacoustic cell was integrated with an oil-gas separator, allowing dissolved gases in oil to be introduced into the cell through free diffusion. The oil-gas separator is a custom-fabricated AF2400-coated ceramic membrane, and its spin-coating process was carefully designed to enable rapid oil-gas separation and achieve high film flatness. Using a resonant photoacoustic cell and a low-noise lock-in amplifier, the sensitivity of the system was improved to 6.90 mV/ppm, with a repeatability error less than 1.65%. Calibration experiments demonstrated that continuous detection of dissolved gas in oil could be achieved, with a response time T90 of less than 72.5 min. Compared to traditional photoacoustic spectroscopy, the continuous measurement capability of this method is expected to enable earlier fault diagnosis, thus having greater potential in industrial fields.
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