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Laser-Aerosolspektrometer Messung von Vulkanasche - Grimm Aerosol Technik
High-Tech from Ainring, Germany: Measuring volcanic ash with Laser Aerosol-spectrometers by Grimm Aerosol Technik GmbH & Co. KG
Since the eruption of Iceland´s volcanoes Eyjafjallajökull and the Grimsvötn, as well as now of Chile´s Puyehue-El Caulle, the volcanic ash causes severe disturbances within the international aviation. Predictions regarding the dispersion of the volcanic ash and estimations of the risk potential for airplanes are based upon simulated calculations by the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VACC).
Another possibility to learn more about volcanic ash, is to measure the volcanic ash directly in the atmosphere. Therefore LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) instruments are used on the ground or inside air planes. With this method, emitted laser pulses reflect from the ash particles and those scattering signals are then collected by a telescope. Such data however, gives no direct information on the concentration and size of ash particles. In order to measure particles directly within the volcanic ash, we equip air planes with special laser aerosol-spectrometers, such as GRIMM´s Sky-OPC. In collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Grimm Aerosol Technik developed for many years such devices. The Sky-OPC is able to detect the particle concentration and the particle size of ash particles ranging from 250 nm up to 32 µm. This laser aerosolspectrometer can be operated in altitudes of 10 km (33000 ft.) and even higher! Currently this device is used in Germany, Great Britain, Norway, and Iceland.
Even more laser aerosol-spectrometers by Grimm Aerosol Technik are able to measure volcanic ash inside airplanes up to altitudes of 2 – 3 km. These devices are very compact, light, and battery-operated. Thus they perfectly suit for the operation inside microlights, or smaller airplanes without the need of scientific staff on board. Such kind of measurements are presently done in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
For over ten years now, we at Grimm Aerosol Technik operate laser aerosol-spectrometers inside airplanes for measuring airborne particles. First experiences and measurement data were collected for example at the Lindenberger Aerosol Characterisation Experiment (LACE 98) in 1998. Here the main focus was on ash particles emitted by a forest fire in Canada also a veritable source of fine particles worldwide.
More information on airplane measurements and volcanic ash:
http://mv.fh-duesseldorf.de/d_pers/Weber_Konradin
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/11/2245/2011/acp-11-2245-2011.html
http://www.dlr.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-6449/10620_read-23839/
http://www.rocketrange.no/?page_id=21
Copyright: Grimm Aerosol Technik 2011
Grimm-Spectrometer-Software 1.178 Version 2.5
Our Grimm-Spektrometer-Software is now available in version 2.5
After an extensive phase of development and thorough testing, we have succeeded in enhancing our software with state-of-the-art features and important performance improvements.
- Export your measured data as counts, mass, and log directly to Excel
- Evaluate your data directly in our Grimm-Spectrometer-Software
- Grimm-Spectrometer-Software is now fully compatible to all time zones and the a.m./p.m.-format
- Re-designed and improved headers.
- Calibrate the K-line now as a new feature.
- Memory cardreadout has been improved.
- Various bug fixes
We are proud to present these improvements to our customers.
Update your previous version of the Grimm-Spectrometer-Software 1178 for free now!
Download our software here
Grimm (1.108/1.109) Spektrometer mit NanoCheck (1.320)
Grimm (1.108/1.109) Spectrometer with Nano-Check (1.320)
The 1.100-series spectrometers are lightweight, small, portable units measuring 24 x 12 x 6 cm and with a weight of approx. 1.7 kg + battery (0.7 kg); they are used for the continuous measurement of particles in the air (aerosols). The highest time resolution attainable with this unit is 1 s, making it a unique single particle counter in the world.
The result from the conductivity measurement combined with the unipolar diffusion charger, the current of the aerosol electrometer and a calibration factor enables this setup to reach a total number concentration range of 500 to > 106 particles/cm³ and an average particle diameter range of 25 to 300nm.
The NanoCheck sensor consists of an aerosol Faraday cup electrometer combined with a unipolar corona charger and a time multiplexed electrode for conductivity measurement.
The result of the conductivity measurement combined with the diffusion charger, the current of the aerosol electrometer and a calibration factor enables this setup to reach a total number concentration range of 500 to > 106 particles/cm³ and an average particle diameter range of 25 to 300nm.
As a consequence, the above compact system has a wide field of applications: particle count, determination of surface, volume and mass distribution within the range of 25 nm to 32 µm in more than 30 size channels; it can be employed for occupational health monitoring according to EN 481 as well, i.e. identification of inhalable, thoracic and alveolar mass fractions, down to nano particles.
