Validation of methane optical gas sensors in a dairy farm environment****

奶牛场环境中甲烷光学气体传感器的验证****

• 批准号: 536396-2018
• 负责人: Peter, YvesAlain
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=662023
• 关键词: Validation; methane; optical; gas; sensors

Valacta is the expertise center in milk production for Québec-Atlantic. The company aims to increase rentability and sustainability of this industry. They developed several technico-economic aspects of milk production to advise dairy farms. Valacta collects data and analyzes samples for benchmarking and decision tool for dairy producer. Many metrics are collected like food analysis, milk analysis, cow's biological markers and in the future environment metrics. For the last category, gas monitoring lack of a cheap and real-time solution. Presently, gas sensors are mainly infrared gas sensors that are expensive or electronic gas sensors which are not selective. Many gases play a role in a dairy farm like ammonia for cow's health or carbon dioxide and methane for environmental impacts of the industry and animal productivity. Valacta needs a cheap, real-time and precise solution for methane monitoring in dairy farms. The Microphotonics Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal developed previously an optical gas sensor on chip. This project is aimed at the development of a packaging for our optical gas sensor in a rough dairy farm environment.

Valacta是魁北克-大西洋牛奶生产的专业中心。该公司的目标是提高该行业的可盈利性和可持续性。他们开发了牛奶生产的几个技术经济方面，为奶牛场提供建议。Valacta收集数据并分析样本，为乳制品生产商提供基准和决策工具。收集了许多指标，如食品分析，牛奶分析，奶牛的生物标志物和未来的环境指标。对于最后一类，气体监测缺乏廉价和实时的解决方案。目前，气体传感器主要是昂贵的红外气体传感器或没有选择性的电子气体传感器。许多气体在奶牛场中发挥作用，如氨对奶牛的健康或二氧化碳和甲烷对工业和动物生产力的环境影响。Valacta需要一种廉价、实时和精确的解决方案来监测奶牛场的甲烷。蒙特利尔理工学院的微光子学实验室此前开发了一种片上光学气体传感器。该项目的目的是在恶劣的奶牛场环境中为我们的光学气体传感器开发包装。