System for sampling gas from a solid porous medium
AssigneeEngie
InventorsMaria ROSANNE, Serge JUNCA
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system for sampling gas from a porous medium, the system including a sampling chamber, an insertion end of which is intended to be pressed into the porous medium, which chamber is delimited by a gas-permeable casing and provided with an outlet opening; an outlet duct connected to the outlet opening and to an external medium; a pipe extending from a first end connected to the sampling chamber to a second end connected to an external medium through a control member that enables or prevents the passage of a gas flow; a suction pump for suctioning, through the outlet opening, a gas from the sampling chamber to the outlet duct.
Claims12
A system for sampling gas from a solid porous medium, especially for determining a flow rate of gas diffusing from said solid porous medium, the solid porous medium being bounded by a surface,
- the system comprising:
- a sampling chamber, extending along a longitudinal axis, which
- is intended to be pressed at least partially into the solid porous medium by a longitudinal insertion end, which sampling chamber is delimited by a casing, a portion of which is gas-permeable to allow gas to diffuse from the solid porous medium into the sampling chamber, an outlet opening also being formed in the casing;
- an outlet duct, one part of which is connected to an external medium and another part of which is connected directly or indirectly to the outlet opening;
- a pipe extending from a first end connected to the sampling chamber to a second end connected to an external medium through a control member that enables or prevents passage of a gas flow through this pipe;
- a suction pump for suctioning, through the outlet opening, a gas from the sampling chamber to the outlet duct;
- wherein:
- along the longitudinal axis, the first end of the pipe is closer to the insertion end than the outlet opening is.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.