Feasibility of Trace Alcohol Congener Detection and Identification Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

ZHANG Jialiang (张家良); WANG Shangmin (王尚民); ZHAO Lixian (赵丽贤); LIU Liying (刘莉莹); WANG Dezhen (王德真)

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/16/12/07

Plasma Science and Technology > 2014 > 16(12): 1119-1125. > DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/12/07

ZHANG Jialiang (张家良), WANG Shangmin (王尚民), ZHAO Lixian (赵丽贤), LIU Liying (刘莉莹), WANG Dezhen (王德真). Feasibility of Trace Alcohol Congener Detection and Identification Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2014, 16(12): 1119-1125. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/12/07

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Feasibility of Trace Alcohol Congener Detection and Identification Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Key Laboratory for Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

Funds: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11375041, 10675028), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. DUT11ZD(G)06) and the Fund of the Key Laboratory of Chemical Laser, CAS (No. 20131008)

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In this paper, a feasible scheme is reported for the detection and identification of trace alcohol congeners that have identical elemental composition using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). In the scheme, an intensive pulsed laser is used to break down trace alcohol samples and the optical emission spectra of the induced plasma are collected for the detection and identification of alcohol molecules. In order to prepare trace alcohol samples, pure ethanol or methanol is bubbled by argon carrier gas and then mixed into matrix gases. The key issue for the scheme is to constitute indices from the LIBS data of the alcohol samples. Two indices are found to be suitable for alcohol detection and identification. One is the emission intensity ratio (denoted as H/C) of the hydrogen line (653.3 nm) to the carbon line (247.9 nm) for identification and the other is the ratio of the carbon line (as C/Ar) or the hydrogen line (as H/Ar) to the argon lines (866.7 nm) for quantitative detection. The calibration experiment result shows that the index H/C is specific for alcohol congeners while almost being independent of alcohol concentration. In detail, the H/C keeps a specific constant of 34 and 23 respectively for ethanol and methanol. In the meanwhile, the C/Ar and H/Ar indices respond almost linearly to the alcohol concentration below 1300 ppm, and are therefore competent for concentration measurement. With the indices, trace alcohol concentration measurement achieves a limit of 140 ppm using a laser pulse energy of 300 mJ.
- laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, alcohol congener, quantitative detec- tion, molecular identification

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