Cost reduction for a new multi-scale fugitive gas detection tool

该项目旨在消除一种新型大气泄漏检测系统进入市场的主要障碍，该系统可以检测常规和非常规能源开发排放的甲烷、温室气体和有毒逃逸气体的存在和运行来源。目前进入市场的主要障碍是成本和需要训练有素的工作人员来操作目前用于进行这些逃逸排放调查的系统。因此，该项目的目标是大幅降低我们检测技术的成本(硬件、人力)，同时为最终用户提供更连续的数据，并且仍然超过商用移动调查系统的泄漏解决能力。 这项技术有可能让操作员识别并因此消除或减少甲烷等气体的逃逸排放，甲烷的温室效应是二氧化碳的20多倍。

This project aims to remove the main barrier to market for a new type of atmospheric leak detection system that detects the presence and operational origin of methane, greenhouse, and toxic fugitive gas emissions from energy developments, conventional and unconventional. This main barrier to market is currently the cost and the need for highly trained staff to operate the system that is currently used to carry out these fugitive emission surveys. Therefore, the goal of this project is to substantially reduce the costs (hardware, manpower) of our detection technique while also providing more continuous data for the end user, and still exceed the leak resolution capability of commercially available mobile survey systems. This technique has the potential to allow operators to identify, and therefore eliminate or reduce, fugitive emissions of gases like methane, which is over 20 times as powerful as CO2 in its greenhouse potential.