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The Quantitative Measurements of the Combustion-Related Factors Using Rayleigh Scattering (CAT#: STEM-ST-0012-YJL)

Introduction

A detailed understanding of the combustion mechanisms is required for optimizing the complex relationship between fuel economy, combustion emissions, and performance; this is dependent on the accurate diagnosis of the combustion system with up-todate new measurement techniques. It is not inappropriate to describe the history of combustion research as the history of combustion diagnostics. Recently, laser-based nonintrusive diagnostic techniques, due to their many advantages that conventional probes do not possess, have been finding an explosive application in the field of combustion research, which can provide new phenomenological insight into the fundamental behavior of the combustion system.




Principle

Resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS) is similar to Rayleigh scattering in nature. Resonance Rayleigh scattering is a special elastic scattering produced when the wavelength of Rayleigh scattering (RS) is located at or close to its molecular absorption band. The key to generating RRS is: when the scattering is at or close to the absorption band of the scattering molecule, since the electron absorbs the electromagnetic wave at the same frequency as the scattering frequency, the electron strongly absorbs the photon energy due to resonance and re-scatters. Its scattering intensity is several orders of magnitude higher than that of pure Rayleigh scattering, and it no longer obeys the Rayleigh law of I∝λ-4. This absorption-rescattering process is called resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS).

Applications

Resonance Rayleigh scattering is used to the study of aggregation of chromophores on biological macromolecules and the determination of biological macromolecules such as nucleic acid, proteins and heparin, further, it has been used in the determination of trace amounts of inorganic ions and the cationic surfactant by means of ion association reactions with some dyes. In addition, it has been applied to the study of nanoparticles in liquid and the determination of β-cyclodextrin inclusion constant and the critical micelle concentration of surfactant.

Procedure

1. Sample preparation
2. Measurement by scattering detection instrument
3. Data analysis

Materials

Rayleigh scattering measurement system