Abstract
This paper presents an alternate calibration method for measurement of the unburned carbon (UC) in fly ash using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Fly ashes studied in this research were produced from pulverized coal in a muffle furnace and the UC was determined by a loss-on-ignition (LOI) test. We apply both univariate calibration and multivariate calibration methods to LIBS data to establish the calibration curve of the UC in measured samples, and the performance of these two approaches was compared. Our analysis shows that traditionally used univariate calibration in LIBS does not qualify quantitative analysis of fly ashes from different kinds of coal due to the presence of matrix effects. Instead, multivariate calibration has a better performance as the matrix effects can be taken into account with the influence of the spectroscopic signals of other components in fly ash. The correlation coefficients R2 of multivariate calibration reach 0.994 (fly ashes from one kind of coal) and 0.981 (fly ashes from different kinds of coal), which is significantly improved compared with univariate calibration.
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