A cost effective, self-calibrating, low maintenance pH sensor for an integrated approach to monitoring sea and drinking water, facilitating improvements in ocean, animal and human health

Projektinformationen

pHenom

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 822927

DOI 10.3030/822927

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 26 Juli 2018

Startdatum 1 August 2018

Enddatum 30 September 2020

Finanziert unter

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Gesamtkosten € 1 124 210,00

EU-Beitrag € 786 947,00

Koordiniert durch

ANB SENSORS LIMITED
United Kingdom

Ziel

ANB Sensors (ANB) is a company set up to develop the next generation of pH Sensors for oceanographic, source water and
aquifer monitoring and water resource management applications. In a short period of time, ANB has won innovation awards
and grant funding and registered intellectual property (IP) (3 patents pending with a further 5 patents in the filing stage)
covering new, fundamental pH sensor technology.
The key failing of existing pH sensors is the short life and high maintenance costs of the sensors, which is a result of
reference electrode drift giving unreliable measurements. The impact of reference drift is that most current ISE sensors
cannot be used for long duration monitoring, cannot be used autonomously in smart sensor networks and require frequent,
labour intensive calibrations. The only solution to reference drift currently available is expensive manual calibration.
ANB’s innovative pH sensor, the pHenom, is based on a voltammetric electrochemical technique, which utilises a pH
responding molecule bound within a solid-state matrix. This is combined with a novel means of verifying the performance of
the pHenom’s reference electrode through an additional in-situ electrochemical measurement.
For the first time, the pHenom sensor provides a pH sensor that is capable of smart, networked sensing allowing companies
and government funded agencies to use their scarce monitoring management resources more efficiently.
ANB’s overall objective for this project, therefore, is to develop the pHenom technology to the point where it can be placed
on the market as-soon-as-possible, through technology licensing and sales. To meet this objective, in this project ANB will
develop and produce four commercial prototype sensor systems specifically tailored for the biggest pH sensor market, the
water monitoring and management industry. These commercial prototypes will be used to demonstrate the operational
advantages of the pHenom technology to gain market acceptance.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › drinking water treatment processes
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › electrochemistry
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › hydrology
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors › smart sensors
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › natural resources management › water management

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme
• H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
• H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Thema/Themen

• EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Unterauftrag

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2

Finanzierungsplan

SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2

Koordinator

ANB SENSORS LIMITED

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 786 947,00
• Adresse: 28 WILLOW LANE ; CB23 6AA GREAT CAMBOURNE ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• KMU Die Organisation definierte sich zum Zeitpunkt der Unterzeichnung der Finanzhilfevereinbarung selbst als KMU (Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen). Ja:
  Region
  East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Region: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Aktivitätstyp: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 124 210,00