US3810583A - Burners for chemical analysis - Google Patents

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US3810583A
US3810583A US00328034A US32803473A US3810583A US 3810583 A US3810583 A US 3810583A US 00328034 A US00328034 A US 00328034A US 32803473 A US32803473 A US 32803473A US 3810583 A US3810583 A US 3810583A
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  • the specified profile mini- 2 mizes turbulence in the slot region adjacent the lower [56] References Ci d surface of the burner plate and hence reduces the de- UNITED STATES PATENTS position of sample material on the burner plate. 3,516,771 6/1970 Rendina 356/87 2 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures PATFNWIIII 14 I914 1 3.81 O 58 3 SHEET 1 0F 2 RADIATION SENSITIVE INTENSITY DEVICE METER 18 21 22 '23 21. g I
  • PATENWMAY 14 974 saw 2 OF 2 1 BURNERS FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
  • This invention relates to burners. for chemical analysis apparatus of the kind in which a sample of material is burnt and the flame in which combustion takes place subjected to optical analysis.
  • An example of such apparatus is an atomic absorption spectrophotometer in which the function of the burner and flame is to produce free atoms of the sample to be determined.
  • the function of the burner and flame is to produce free atoms of the sample to be determined.
  • the most commonly adopted form of burner for atomic absorption spectrophotometers includes a burner plate, generally of rectangular shape, which is relatively thick.
  • the burner plate may either be of unitary construction or be assembled from two or more separate parts.
  • a straight-sided slot through the burner plate functions as the flame aperture, and the burner plate is usually mounted upon a sample/fuel gas receiving chamber of suitable construction.
  • the plate-type burner construction is generally preferred to others because of its ability to provide a more laminar gas flow through the flame aperture.
  • this type of burner is not completely satisfactory in use as turbulence can occur in the region of the slot adjacent the lower face of the burner plate causing fluctuations in the sample/fuel gas flow through the aperture and, when high concentration samples are being aspirated, deposition of the sample in this area, which may block the flame aperture.
  • a burner for chemical analysis apparatus including a flame aperture in the form of a longitudinal slot which extends through the upper and lower surfaces of a burner plate and has a profile in cross-section which tapers inwardly from the region adjacent the lower surface of the burner plate, the profile being at least in part arcuate about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the slot.
  • Provision of the specified profile minimises turbulence in the region of the slot adjacent the lower surface of the'burner plate and hence reduces the deposition of sample material.
  • the lower edges of the slot have a profile which is'defined by the arc of a circle of radius 3 mm or greater.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating, in general form, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a burner plate of a burner embodying the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line III- -III of FIG. 2, and
  • FIG. 4 is an outline of the view of FIG. 3 indicating the principal dimensions.
  • FIG. 1 shows in general form an atomic absorption spectrophotometer including a nebuliser 10, a cloud chamber 11 and a burner 12.
  • the nebuliser 10 is fed with compressed air from a cylinder 13 and with sample solution from a vessel 14.
  • Fuel and auxiliary air are fed from cylinders 15 and 16 through a common line 17.
  • Mixing of the fuel/air mixture and sample solution spray occurs in the cloud chamber 11, and the resulting mixture is fed to the burner 12 which produces an analytical flame 18 wherein evaporation of the sample solution solvent takes place and vaporisation of the sample occurs.
  • Radiation from a source 20 provides a beam of radiation having one or more characteristic spectral line(s).
  • the beam of radiation emitted by the source 20 is focussed and passed through the flame 18 containing the vapour of the sample solution containing an unknown quantity of the. material under examination, into a monochromator 21.
  • Certain spectral lines are absorbed by the vapour of the sample from the beam of radiation indicating the presence of a particular element in the vaporised solution if the beam of radiation is of a specific wavelength corresponding to the energy required to excite atoms which have been vaporised, from their ground state to the resonant energy level.
  • Adjustment of the monochromator 21 to the wavelength of the spectral lines which are to be absorbed gives a beam of radiation of narrow bandwidth about that wavelength.
  • the resultant beam of radiation is directed onto a radiation sensitive device 22 which provides an output signal which is amplified by an amplifier 23 and applied to a meter 24 which provides an indication of the intensity of the radiation leaving the monochromator 21.
  • the degree of absorption of radiation of a given wavelength may be measured by comparing the indication displayed by the meter 24 when unknown samples are introduced into the flame l8 and when no sample is introduced into the flame 18.
  • a burner plate generally indicated as 1 comprises two identical jaw portions 2 and 2' held together by means of screws 3 and 3'.
  • the two jaws are spaced apart by spacers 4 and 4' whose inner ends 8 and 8 limit the extent of the longitudinal flame aperture slot 5 so formed.
  • the burner plate 1 mounts upon acasting or fabricated duct 19 in FIG. 1, which serves to convey fuel gas and nebulised sample solution to the flame aperture 5.
  • the analytical flame is established along the mouth of the aperture 5.
  • edges 6 and 6 of the jaws 2 and 2 are radiused to minimise turbulence in the fuel gas/sample mixture fed under pressure to the flame aperture 5 and aid transfer of the nebulised fluid sample through the aperture 5.
  • the absence of arectangular profile adjacent the lower surface 7 of the burner plate minimises the deposition of sample material in this region and hence the obstruction of the aperture 5 when a highly concentrated sample solution is being aspirated.
  • the radiused edges 6 and 6 ofthe flame aperture 5 extend for substantially the whole length of the flame aperture 5.
  • the inner ends 8 and 8 of the spacers 4 and 4' are preferably cut to provide the aperture 5 with an inwardly tapering profile in the longitudinal direction also.
  • a burner constructed in accordance with the invention to burn a mixture of air and acetylene had burner plate dimensions as follows:
  • a burner for nitrous oxide and acetylene also constructed in accordance with the invention, had the following dimensions:
  • the widths of the aperture 5 will be within the range 0.35 mm to 0.76 mm and the thickness h of the plate within the range 4.5 mm to 26 mm. In order to provide conditions of laminar flow the following relationships should be observed.
  • the radius of the arcuate portion of the aperture profile should be greater than 3 mm.
  • the dimension x may be less than or equal to, but should not be greater than, the dimension r.
  • the circle of which the arc is part should be tangential to the straight-sided portion.
  • the present invention provides an extremely simple but effective burner for chemical analysis apparatus by reducing turbulence and sample deposition in the region of the flame aperture adjacent the lower face of the aperture of the burner plate.
  • Use of a burner plate in accordance with the invention in an otherwise standard instrument has improved instrumental sensitivity by a factor of x2 and has given a similar improvement in instrumental precision, relative to the performance of the same instrument when using a burner plate having a straight-sided flame aperture.
  • a burner for chemical apparatus comprising a burner plate having therein a flame aperture formed by a passage in the form of a slot, said passage extending through the upper and lower surfaces of said burner plate, the walls of said passage having a profile taken in a section located at right angles to the longer dimension of the slot, which tapers inwardly from a fuel inlet region adjacent the lower surface of said burner plate, said profile being at least partly arcuate about an axis parallel to the longer dimension of said slot.
  • a burner as claimed in claim 1 in which the edges of the slot in the lower surface of the burner plate have a said profile defined by the arc of a circle of radius 3 mm or greater.

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US4596463A (en) * 1983-11-22 1986-06-24 Errol Akomer Atomic spectroscopy surface burner
US4802630A (en) * 1985-11-19 1989-02-07 Ecolab Inc. Aspirating foamer
US4893754A (en) * 1987-11-13 1990-01-16 Francisco Ruiz Generation of flat liquid sheet and sprays by means of simple cylindrical orifices
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