{"id":147268,"date":"2022-09-30T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-capture-first-images-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-commercial-aircraft-engine"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:22:18","slug":"researchers-capture-first-images-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-commercial-aircraft-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-capture-first-images-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-commercial-aircraft-engine","title":{"rendered":"Researchers capture first images of carbon dioxide emissions from commercial aircraft engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-capture-first-images-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-commercial-aircraft-engine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. This new state-of-the-art technology could help accelerate turbine combustion research aimed at developing engines and aviation fuels that are more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach, which we call chemical species tomography, provides <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a> spatially resolved information for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+dioxide+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide emissions<\/a> from a large-scale commercial engine,\u201d said research team leader Michael Lengden from the University of Strathclyde in the U.K. \u201cThis information has not been available before at this industrial scale and is a big improvement over the current industry-standard emissions measurement, which involves taking gas from the exhaust to a gas analyzer system in a different location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers report the new research in <i>Applied Optics<\/i>. Chemical species tomography works much like the X-ray-based CT scans used in medicine, except that it uses near-infrared laser light tuned to the absorption wavelength of a target molecule and requires very fast imaging speeds to capture the dynamic processes of combustion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. This new state-of-the-art technology could help accelerate turbine combustion research aimed at developing engines and aviation fuels that are more environmentally friendly. \u201cThis approach, which we call chemical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}