Need help calculating PPM (% Mol) in Gas samples

[JWF239]

Hello all,

I am using an FTIR to attempt to calculate concentrations of impurities in air and oxygen. I have a standard that I know has 500.5 ppm (% mol) of CO[sub]2[/sub] and am trying to use the spectrum that I obtained from this sample to back calculate and find this value. Does anyone have any experience doing something like this?

 

[IRstuff]

You also need to know the cell thickness to do that calculation. If you have that, then you can use Beer's law to estimate the concentration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer–Lambert_law

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