Inventors:
William Walker - Palatine IL, US
Larry Golden - Palatine IL, US
Amy Karony - Palatine IL, US
International Classification:
G01J 3/28
Abstract:
The invention is a combination of two prior arts (one being a tower elevator system and the other an open-path monitoring system) in order to perform automated “full wall” monitoring of an emission source. The system will allow an open-path detection system to take near real-time readings of the compounds present in the full area between the towers (both rectangular and triangular areas as shown in FIG. ) by allowing either the retroreflector, or both the retroreflector and an open-path monitoring device to traverse the height of the towers. Sampled air is continuously monitored as the instrument traverses the tower. This is essentially a method for obtaining the impact of an emission source on the environment by acquiring a virtual “wall” of sampled air through automated and synchronized vertical movement and operation (both upstream and downstream of the source) of an open path detection method.