Fuel Cell Sensor - DNO prototype

由拉夫堡大学和Des19ncor Limited开发的一个原型项目，旨在测试基于燃料电池的传感器(FCS)是否能够近乎实时地感知和计算天然气、氢气和沼气中的热值，以便FCS可以用于天然气分配网络运营商(DNO)公司的完全集成系统中的气体质量控制(即沃贝指数、相对密度和热值)。FCS已被证明在欧盟资助的概念验证项目中发挥作用。该项目旨在与来自天然气公用事业和工业背景的DNO公司一起评估、克服和测试在市场上采用新技术的技术障碍。一旦实现商业化，这种在环境和经济上都可持续的创新将把“英国PLC”置于全球绿色科技领域新冠肺炎复苏的核心位置。这将通过提供当地就业和研究机会，帮助英国实现后新冠肺炎时代的增长。

A prototype project to test whether a fuel cell based sensor (FCS), developed by Loughborough University and Des19ncor Limited, is capable of sensing and calculating calorific values in natural gas, hydrogen and biogases in near real time, such that the FCS can be used to control gas quality (i.e., Wobbe index, relative densities and calorific values) in a fully integrated system for a gas Distribution Network Operator (DNO) company. The FCS has already been shown to work in an EU funded proof-of-concept project.This project aims to assess, overcome and test the technical barriers for the adoption of the new technology in the market with DNO companies from gas utility and industrial backgrounds. Once commercialised, this environmentally and economically sustainable innovation will put "UK PLC" at the heart of the worldwide recovery from COVID-19 in a green technology area. This will help post-COVID-19 growth in the UK by providing local jobs and research opportunities.