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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 114, Issue 4, Pages 1926-1933Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.1605386
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The photoacoustic effect may be exploited for the detection and localization of gas leaks from otherwise sealed components. The technique involves filling the test component with a tracer gas, and radiating the component to produce photoacoustic sound from any leak site where tracer gas is present. This paper describes demonstration experiments utilizing 10.6-mu radiation from a carbon-dioxide laser and sulfur hexafluoride as a tracer gas for photoacoustic leak testing at leak rates between 6 X 10(-5) cm(3)/s (1 cm(3) in 4.6 h) and 5 X 10(-9) cm(3)/s (1 cm(3) in 6.3 years). The technique may reach or exceed the capabilities of the most sensitive commercial leak test systems using helium mass-spectrometers. In addition, comparison of the measured results to a simple scaling law suggests that tracer gas cloud geometry influences the photoacoustic signal amplitude. (C) 2003 Acoustical Society of America.
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