I-Corps: Commercialization of Novel CO2 Measurement Technologies

为了测量化石燃料燃烧和大气二氧化碳（CO2）水平增加所造成的水生环境影响，需要对海水、湖泊和河流的CO2系统参数进行精确测量。目前缺乏用于精确和准确的现场监测的低成本仪器，以及对收集的样品进行离散的CO2系统测量。在团队之前成功开发用于测量营养物质，微量金属和二氧化碳系统参数的仪器的基础上，这个I-Corps团队建议通过将一系列用于各种研究实体，教学机构和行业的仪器商业化，将其技术转化为科学仪器公司。该公司的核心业务是设计、建造和制造二氧化碳系统测量仪器，包括使用多种平台-船上系统、实验室系统和现场系统。拟议的技术提供了一系列不同的仪器来满足客户的需求。对于研究机构来说，拟议的技术提供了最先进的仪器，满足最苛刻的数据精度和准确性要求。提出的原位仪器是用户可配置的不同的测量，显著降低购置成本。拟议中的船载系统提供了CO2系统的完整特征，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封装中，将定制的原型仪器转变为商用仪器。总的来说，这些仪器将为环境科学提供有力的工具，特别是为研究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。

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.