Abstract
A PSD-based solar spot position detection system is developed for solar tracking closed-loop control of mobile SOF-FTIR (Solar Occultation Flux method based on Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer). The positioning error factors of PSD (position sensitive detector) are analyzed in detail. A voltage model for PSD signal conditioning circuit has been established to investigate the noise factors. The model shows that the positioning error is mainly related to PSD dark current and circuit gain. A static voltage deduction calibration method based on genetic algorithm is proposed to eliminate the effect of dark current. The gain ratio between channels is calculated based on the fitting curve slope of discrete position data of PSD center point with different light intensity for circuit gain calibration. The positioning accuracy and precision are greatly enhanced, especially when the light intensity is weak, compared with uncalibrated results. The positioning accuracy of center, middle and edge areas of PSD can reach 0.14%, 0.49%, and 1.09%, respectively, after correction in the range of light intensity voltage from 40 mV to 20 V. The corresponding standard deviations of each region are 0.005, 0.009, and 0.014, respectively. The adjustment methods proposed in this paper improve both measurement accuracy and detection limit. The results demonstrate that the calibrated PSD positioning accuracy can meet the requirements of SOF-FTIR for solar tracking.
Highlights
SOF-FTIR (Solar Occultation Flux method based on Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer) method is an optical remote sensing technique for quantifying fugitive VOC emissions from industrial sources
position sensitive detector (PSD) is applied in mobile SOF-FTIR system to detect the position of solar spot and realize the closed-loop control of solar tracking
The error factors of PSD point positioning are analyzed in detail
Summary
SOF-FTIR (Solar Occultation Flux method based on Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer) method is an optical remote sensing technique for quantifying fugitive VOC emissions from industrial sources. The FTIR is connected to the mobile solar tracker, which reflects the sunlight to the spectrometer. The SOF method can directly measure the wide band absorption spectroscopy of infrared sunlight, as well as the concentration of a gas column integrated along a straight line or surface. SOF-FTIR has been shown to be very useful to constrain emission of trace gases from source regions [1]. The SOF method requires very high accuracy in solar tracking. An error smaller than 0.05% in tracking the total gas column is desirable for ground-based solar absorption FTIR to achieve a total CO2 column precision of 0.1% [2,3]. If one wants to maintain this for a tropospheric gas up to a solar zenith angle of 80◦ , a tracking accuracy of about 19 arc sec is Sensors 2019, 19, 5081; doi:10.3390/s19235081 www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors
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