Very Sensitive Optical System with the Concentration and Decomposition Unit for Explosive Trace Detection

• Autorzy: Zakrzewska B.

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DOI

10.1515/mms-2015-0005

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The vapour pressure of most explosives is very low. Therefore, the explosive trace detection is very difficult. To overcome the problem, concentration units can be applied. At the Institute of Optoelectronics MUT, an explosive vapour concentration and decomposition unit to operate with an optoelectronic sensor of nitrogen dioxide has been developed. This unit provides an adsorption of explosive vapours from the analysed air and then their thermal decomposition. The thermal decomposition is mainly a chemical reaction, which consists in breaking up compounds into two or more simple compounds or elements. During the heating process most explosive particles, based on nitro aromatics and alkyl nitrate, release NO2 molecules and other products of pyrolysis. In this paper, the most common methods for the NO2 detection were presented. Also, an application of the concentration and decomposition unit in the NO2 optoelectronic sensor has been discussed.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

explosives trace detection; NO2 optoelectronic sensor; concentration and thermal decomposition

• Wydawca: Komitet Metrologii i Aparatury Naukowej PAN
• Czasopismo: Metrology and Measurement Systems
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 22, nr 1
• Strony: 101--110
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 50 poz., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Zakrzewska B.

• Military University of Technology, Institute of Optoelectronics, Gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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The presented works were supported by The National Science Centre (ID: 175441) and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (in the years 2011-2014).