Patent ID: 8355124
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: spectroscopically quantifying a carbon dioxide concentration and a water concentration for a sample volume of combustion products produced in an oxidation process; determining an oxygen consumption value for the sample volume based at least on the quantified carbon dioxide concentration and the quantified water concentration in the sample volume, the oxygen consumption value representing a number of moles of oxygen consumed to produce the quantified carbon dioxide concentration and the quantified water concentration from combustible compounds present in the sample volume prior to the oxidation process; and converting the oxygen consumption value to an energy content for the sample volume, the converting comprising multiplying the oxygen consumption value by a normalized energy content factor, comprising an enthalpy of combustion per mole fraction of the combustible compounds in the mixture per mole of oxygen atoms consumed in the oxidation process.