I-Corps: Commercialization of Novel CO2 Measurement Technologies

I-Corps：新型二氧化碳测量技术的商业化

• 批准号: 1620072
• 负责人: Robert Byrne
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620072&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Commercialization; Novel; CO2; Measurement

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.

为了测量化石燃料燃烧和增加大气二氧化碳（CO2）的水平环境影响，需要对海水，湖水和河水的准确测量CO2系统参数的准确测量。目前缺乏低成本仪器来精确，准确的现场监控，以及对收集样品的离散二氧化碳系统测量。在该团队以前成功开发营养，微量金属和二氧化碳系统参数的仪器的基础上，该I-Corps团队建议通过将一系列在各种研究实体，教学机构和行业中使用的工具商业化，将其技术转化为科学仪器公司。该公司的核心业务是设计，构建和制造二氧化碳系统测量工具，其中包括使用多个平台 - 船上系统，实验室系统和原位系统。拟议的技术提供了一系列不同的工具来满足客户的需求。对于研究机构，拟议的技术提供了满足数据精度和准确性最苛刻要求的最先进工具的状态。拟议的原位仪器可用于不同测量值的用户，可大大降低采集成本。拟议的船上系统提供了二氧化碳系统的全面表征，以及与其他任何技术都无法匹配的小占地面积。对于监管机构和渔业行业，监测和减轻海洋酸化的影响，该技术的pH传感器的精度非常低，其精度优于0.01 pH单元。通过成立高级仪器公司，该团队将通过将不同的测量组件集成到用户友好的软件包中，将定制的原型仪器定制为商业仪器。这些工具将为环境科学提供强大的工具，尤其是重要的新功能，以研究CO2系统化学和海洋酸化对环境的影响。