Descripción del proyecto
Sensores de gas pequeños e inteligentes para combatir el cambio climático
El cambio climático aumenta el riesgo de fenómenos meteorológicos extremos y desastrosos. Por lo tanto, se requieren con urgencia tecnologías que mejoren la adaptación y la mitigación del cambio climático. Los gases de efecto invernadero, en concreto el dióxido de carbono, el óxido nitroso y el metano, son algunos de los principales responsables del calentamiento global. Los equipos de supervisión de emisiones suelen ser caros, complejos y voluminosos. En el proyecto NEOGAS, financiado con fondos europeos, se diseñarán nuevos sensores de gas adecuados para el internet de las cosas y fabricados con materiales con marcos organometálicos. Los dispositivos desarrollados se probarán para detectar gases de efecto invernadero y se compararán con estaciones de referencia ambiental. Esta tecnología podrá proporcionar múltiples lecturas y será más eficiente.
Objetivo
The emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), is the major source of global warming and climate change. To monitor their emissions, one can find in the market highly sensitive and selective, complex, bulky and expensive instruments, used as reference measuring systems, which can only be installed in few specific locations. For an accurate spatial control of these emissions, however, large number of sensing systems need to be installed and connected, benefitting from Internet of Things (IoT) and providing the required ubiquity. Usually these devices do not need to meet the sensitivity level of the reference instruments.
The present project addresses the development, fabrication and testing of gas sensors, suitable for IoT, made from advanced metal organic frameworks (MOFs) materials. These gas sensors will be multivariable devices, providing the simultaneous readout of the change of electrical and optical properties when exposed to gaseous species, in opposition to standard gas sensing devices, that deliver one single readout. This innovative approach is expected to present advantages over the standard devices, especially in terms of miniaturization, compactness and selectivity, as they are integrated nanoelectronic noses. The developed devices will be tested towards GHGs and will be benchmarked against environmental reference stations.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Régimen de financiación
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinador
08007 Barcelona
España