Low Cost Carbon Dioxide Sensor

该项目将展示用于在低成本和低功率平台上传感二氧化碳的创新材料。它将涉及在陶瓷微电热板平台上制备这些创新材料，并在受控气体环境中进行测试，其中二氧化碳水平从环境值改变到不安全水平。新的创新材料将设计为在与低功率硅MEMS基板兼容的低温下运行，从而受益于低成本、大容量、微制造工艺，以进入更广泛的市场。该技术对室内空气质量、建筑通风控制、火灾探测、园艺等成熟的大众市场和新兴市场(如智能建筑、家用燃气锅炉排放、易腐烂货物存储、二氧化碳捕获和存储、汽车驾驶舱空气质量和医疗诊断)具有广泛的吸引力。新兴市场也宣布对二氧化碳捕获和储存感兴趣，因为这项技术在零度以下和高温下的高湿度下运行。该项目将为一家小型科技公司带来明显的经济效益，巩固与学术界的紧密联系，并有助于在英国重新建立主流的气体传感技术。除了提高建筑管理系统和燃气电器的能源效率外，这项技术本身还提供了福利和安全方面的好处。

The project will demonstrate innovative materials for sensing CO2 on low-cost and low-power platforms. It will involve preparation of these innovative materials on ceramic micro-hotplate platforms and testing in controlled gas environments where the CO2 level is altered from ambient values to unsafe levels. The new innovative materials will be designed to operate at low temperatures compatible with low-power silicon MEMS substrates, thereby benefiting from low-cost, high-volume, micro-fabrication processes to access wider markets. The technology has wide appeal to established mass markets such as indoor air quality, building ventilation controls, fire detection, horticulture and emerging markets such as smart buildings, domestic gas boiler emissions, perishable goods storage, CO2 capture and storage, vehicle cabin air quality and medical diagnostics. There is also a declared interest from the emerging market in CO2 capture and storage, as the technology operates in high humidity at sub-zero and elevated temperatures. The project will provide clear economic benefits to a small technology company, consolidate a strong link to academia, and help re-establish a mainstream gas-sensing technology in the UK. The technology itself offers both well-being and safety benefits in addition to the potential to improve energy efficiencies in building management systems and in gas-fired appliances.