Grantee Research Project Results

An Advanced Flue Gas Monitor for SO2

EPA Contract Number: 68D50093
Title: An Advanced Flue Gas Monitor for SO2
Investigators: Kosek, John A.
Small Business: Giner Inc.
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: I
Project Period: September 1, 1995 through March 1, 1996
Project Amount: $65,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase I (1996) RFA Text |  Recipients Lists
Research Category: Ecological Indicators/Assessment/Restoration , SBIR - Monitoring , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

Description:

The development of an instrument for continuously monitoring SO2 levels in flue gas is proposed. The SO2 will be detected by means of an electrochemical sensor cell, which operates in a three-electrode potentiostatic mode. The proposed innovation is develop-ment of an advance sensor cell which uses a high-temperature solid polymer electrolyte as the sensor cell electrolyte. The objectives of the proposed program are:

1. identification of potentiostatic method operating conditions for the detection of SO2,
   
2. design and fabrication of a breadboard sensor, and
   
3. performance testing of the breadboard sensor.

Supplemental Keywords:

small business, SBIR, air emissions, engineering, chemistry., RFA, Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Air, Scientific Discipline, Environmental Chemistry, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, Analytical Chemistry, Monitoring/Modeling, air toxics, Environmental Engineering, air quality, compliance, air sampling, ambient monitoring, emission control strategies, sulfer oxide, atmospheric chemistry, environmental monitoring, electrochemical sensor cell, flue gas monitor, Sulfur Oxides (SO2), monitoring, control, chemical detection techniques, sensor technology, ambient emissions, emission control technologies, SO2, air pollutants, emissions contol engineering, air pollution, Sulfur dioxide, continuous measurement, electrochemical analysis, fugitive emissions, breadboard sensor

Progress and Final Reports:

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