I-Corps: Commercialization of Novel CO2 Measurement Technologies

I-Corps：新型二氧化碳测量技术的商业化

• 批准号: 1620072
• 负责人: Robert Byrne
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620072&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Commercialization; Novel; CO2; Measurement

To measure the aquatic environmental effects caused by fossil fuel combustion and increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), accurate measurements of CO2 system parameters are needed for seawater, lake waters, and river waters. There is currently a lack of low-cost instrumentation for precise and accurate on-site monitoring, and discrete CO2 system measurements of collected samples. Building on the team's previous successful development of instrumentation for measurements of nutrients, trace metals and CO2 system parameters, this I-Corps team proposes to translate its technologies into a scientific instrument company by commercializing an array of instruments for use in a variety of research entities, teaching institutions and industries. The core business of the company is to design, construct and manufacture CO2-system measurement instrumentation that includes use of multiple platforms - underway shipboard systems, laboratory systems, and in situ systems.The proposed technology offers an array of different instruments to meet customers' needs. For research institutions, the proposed technology provides state of the art instrumentation that meets the most demanding requirements for data precision and accuracy. The proposed in situ instruments are user configurable for different measurements, significantly reducing acquisition costs. The proposed underway shipboard system provides full characterization of the CO2 system, and a small footprint that cannot be matched with any other technologies. For regulatory agencies, and fisheries industries, to monitor and mitigate the effects of ocean acidification this technology offers very low cost pH sensors that have a precision better than 0.01 pH unit. Through the founding of an advanced instrumentation company, this team will transition customized prototype instruments to commercial instruments by integrating different measurement components into user friendly packages. Collectively these instruments will provide powerful tools for environmental science and, in particular, important new capabilities for investigation of CO2-system chemistry and the impact of ocean acidification on the environment.

为了测量由化石燃料燃烧和大气二氧化碳（CO2）水平增加引起的水环境影响，需要对海水、湖泊沃茨和河流沃茨的CO2系统参数进行精确测量。目前缺乏低成本的仪器，用于精确和准确的现场监测，以及对收集的样品进行离散的CO2系统测量。在该团队先前成功开发用于测量营养物、微量金属和CO2系统参数的仪器的基础上，I-Corps团队提议将其技术转化为一家科学仪器公司，将一系列仪器商业化，供各种研究实体、教学机构和行业使用。该公司的核心业务是设计、建造和制造CO2系统测量仪器，包括使用多个平台-在航船载系统、实验室系统和现场系统。拟议的技术提供一系列不同的仪器，以满足客户的需求。对于研究机构来说，所提出的技术提供了最先进的仪器，可满足对数据精度和准确性的最苛刻要求。建议的现场仪器是用户可配置的不同的测量，大大降低了采购成本。拟议中的船载系统提供了二氧化碳系统的全面表征，并且占地面积小，无法与任何其他技术相匹配。对于监管机构和渔业行业来说，为了监测和减轻海洋酸化的影响，这项技术提供了非常低成本的pH传感器，其精度优于0.01 pH单位。通过成立一家先进的仪器公司，该团队将通过将不同的测量组件集成到用户友好的软件包中，将定制的原型仪器过渡到商业仪器。这些仪器合在一起将为环境科学提供强有力的工具，特别是为调查二氧化碳系统化学和海洋酸化对环境的影响提供重要的新能力。