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utatnts ? I would say optical would be the way. If you really want to get d own on it, split the optical spectrum up a bit. ike UV and IR maybe. and th en there are pollutants that are just as tansparent as air. They would have to be detectd by other means. At that point, the method is VERY dependent upon just exactle what you want to detect.
r that. But those solutions only work for one substance. (actually I am not totally sure of that, are there things that'll set off a CO detector other than CO ?)
cope. Like an oxygen concentrator, it does not concentrat oxygen. Instead i
ly a nitrogen concentrator but it discards the nitrogen.
uestion. If you could find out how to quantify clean air let's say, you cou ld measure it against it's contaninents. That's a tall order. The math is a gainst you.
It would be unwieldy to express it as 99.95 % pure. In the US we have a MP G figure for cars. In some countries they do it different, how many liters per kilometer. Screw the different units, we could use gallons per mile. If you got 20 MPG, well you got 0.05 GPM.
sensor that will detect everything but oxygen, nitrogen and whatever else, for about ten million bucks. If you are looking for smoke, that is no prob lem. If you are looking for anyhting specific, it is not all that hard. But when you look for EVERYTHING, that is not so easy.
gion I am considering are particulates.
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much focused on new sensor development (except insofar as it enables the ma in objective), but in the deployment and monitoring of low-cost 'personal' air pollution monitors. If current, commodity components could be used, tha t would be fine. I suspect, however, that some innovation (e.g., component integration) will be required to meet the objectives.
initely be required. In these cases, I may take you up on your kind offer o f a proposal review.
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Yes. In fact my original query was based, in part, on an RFA/RFP from the E PA. A SBIR is an interesting idea.