Microelectrochemical Sensors for Hazardous Material Detection

描述(由申请人提供)：Synkera Technologies计划开发新的电化学传感器，用于识别危险材料容器系统(如化学品储罐)中的故障。这些传感器将构成小型化设备的基础，这些设备可用于小型安全壳系统(桶)的独立泄漏检测，并且它们将足够便宜，可以用于分布式网络系统，以监控整个工业设施中大型容器上多个点的潜在泄漏。危险材料控制系统的故障可能会导致灾难性的事故，导致人员受伤和生命损失，或者可能导致工人不可避免地长期暴露在有毒化学品中，这可能会对健康产生慢性影响。这一努力将产生性能卓越的新一代固态电化学传感器，使其能够与已知但成本高得多的技术竞争，并可能创造新的应用(由于显著的成本优势)。建议的传感器是基于一种新的燃料电池技术的开发，代表着已经被广泛用于气体检测的相关设备的重大进步。利用材料和分析化学方面的进步，Synkera将开发先进的传感器和电子设备，以在非常小、负担得起的设备中操作它们，这些设备将能够在分布式网络中实施，以进行广泛的监测。该项目将开发新的、改进的、实用的和具有成本效益的气体检测设备，这些设备可以在多种环境下使用，以保护工人和普通公众。预计这些装置将极大地降低灾难性事故的风险，以及因危险材料控制系统故障而长期暴露在有毒气体中的风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Synkera Technologies proposes to develop new electrochemical sensors for the identification of failures in hazardous materials containment systems, such as chemical storage tanks. These sensors will form the basis for miniaturized devices that can be used for stand alone leak detection of small containment systems (drums) and they will be inexpensive enough to use in distributed network systems to monitor potential leaks from multiple points on large vessels throughout an industrial facility. Failures in hazardous materials containment systems can lead to catastrophic accidents leading to injury and loss of life, or can cause workers to be routinely exposed, unecessarily, to toxic chemicals over long periods of time, which can have chronic effects on health. This effort will produce a new generation of solid state electrochemical sensors with excellent performance, enabling competition with known, but much higher cost, technologies and potentially creating new applications (due to significant cost advantages). The proposed sensor is based on development of a new kind of fuel cell technology, and represents a significant advance in related devices that are already widely used for gas detection. Using advances in materials and analytical chemistry, Synkera will develop advanced sensors and electronics to operate them in very small, affordable devices which will be ameanable for implementation in distibuted networks for wide range monitoring. This project will develop new, improved, practical and cost effective gas detection devices that can be used in multiple settings for the protection of workers and the general public. It is expected that these devices will greatly reduce the risk of catastrophic accidents and long term exposure to toxic gases created by failures in hazardous materials containment systems.