Hydrogen sulfide measurement of combustion gaseous product using ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy

Abstract

Measurement of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in gaseous product can provide direct reference for high-temperature corrosion of industrial combustion equipment. Aiming at the interference effect of overlapping measurement of absorption spectrum for H2S and other combustion gas components in UV absorption spectroscopy, the simulation calculation of ultraviolet band absorption spectrum of the typical gaseous products of coal combustion were carried out. The cross interference effects of combustion gaseous products were analyzed in detail. Due to the SO2 and H2S gas under typical combustion condition have equivalent absorption strength in the 228 nm-233 nm band, the influence of SO2 on H2S concentration inversion must be emphatically considered, and the inversion algorithm of H2S gas concentration under the background interference of combustion gaseous products SO2 was put forward. In order to validate the measurement accuracy by the inversion algorithm, the measurement experiments of gas mixture of H2S and SO2 were carried out. The results show that the algorithm can effectively solve the problem of cross interference between the detection of H2S and SO2 in the combustion gaseous products by UV absorption spectroscopy. On this basis, the sampling, pre-treatment and H2S gas concentration measurement system for boiler flue gas near the wall was developed and applied to measure H2S concentration of flue gas near the wall in a 1000 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power generation boiler. The results can provide important references for combustion adjustment and high-temperature corrosion prevention of boiler.