I-Corps: Flame Luminosity Analyzer for Measuring Sooting Tendency of Fuels

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是创建一种产品，该产品将促进对运输燃料的评估，以确保它们将通过燃料规格测试。特别是，该项目将提供一种装置，生产商可以用来更准确地确定他们的燃料是否符合烟尘/烟雾排放规范，并应该创建一个框架，允许更准确地定义颗粒物(PM)排放的燃料规范。这将通过降低成本和增加确定性而使燃料行业受益。这也将使他们能够自信地推出PM排放更低的替代燃料。这个i-Corps项目进一步开发了一种仪器，通过煤烟亮度来表征燃料的煤烟倾向。与目前使用的方法不同，这项技术允许定量测量完全自动化并在线执行。它将比现有的定性方法更快地提供更准确的结果，同时需要更少的样本。广泛的学术研究已经证明，这种方法正确地检测了燃料成分对PM排放的影响。这个i-Corps项目将探索这种仪器在各种潜在客户群中的商业潜力。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to create a product that will facilitate assessment of transportation fuels to ensure they will pass fuel specification tests. In particular, the project will provide a device that producers can use to more accurately determine whether their fuels will meet the specifications for soot/smoke emissions and should create a framework that allows fuel specifications for particulate matter (PM) emissions to be defined more precisely. This will benefit the fuels industry by reducing costs and increasing certainty. It will also enable them to confidently introduce alternative fuels that have lower PM emissions.This I-Corps project further develops an instrument that characterizes the sooting propensity of a fuel by its soot luminosity. Unlike the methods currently in use, this technology allows a quantitative measurement to be fully automated and performed online. It will deliver more accurate results faster than existing qualitative methods while requiring less sample. Extensive academic research has verified that this approach correctly detects the effect of fuel composition on PM emissions. This I-Corps project will explore the commercial potential of this instrument across a variety of potential customer segments.