Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOES20230914014
- Term of Validity
- 14 September 2023 - 13 September 2025
- Company's Country
- Spain
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A Spanish research centre has developed a technology aimed at reducing deep emissions. Combining chemical sensors and high-resolution satellite imagery, they estimate the concentration of air pollutants and provide proposals to avoid exceeding the maximum levels of air pollutants recommended and evaluate the impacts. They seek partners looking to reduce emissions to fight climate change and partners experienced in the field of the atmosphere for a commercial agreement with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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A Spanish research center working in the field of product design and development, innovative materials, advanced and sustainable supply, manufacturing, logistics, distribution and service processes, aims to contribute to the challenge of turning the EU into the first climate neutral continent by 2050. To get there, one of the key lines of work is the reduction of emissions which directly affects the health of citizens, ecosystems, biodiversity, and crop yield.
To promote sustainable development is critical to take action in mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts. With that goal, the centre has developed a technology to reduce deep emissions. Using the combination of chemical sensors and high-resolution satellite imagery, they offer an approach to estimate the concentration of air pollutants in the adequate locations and provide specific proposals to avoid exceeding the maximum levels of air pollutants established by the WHO, as well as evaluating the impacts. This solution aims to develop an emissions monitoring plan using chemical data (concentration of atmospheric gases) and satellite imagery.
Satellite imagery has been evolving rapidly in recent years, allowing high resolution images to be obtained with increasingly better revisit times. Through the satellite images, it can be estimated the pollutants concentrations in larger areas. The satellites used in this development are primarily the Copernicus SENTINEL-2 mission which is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit, each carries a high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands generating images at 10 meters spatial resolution every 5 days.
For each particular location, the distribution and quantity of emissions vary. In order to predict the behaviour and the specific gas concentration, robust prediction models are generated, and several land use regression models (LUR) allow to compare and decide the most robust model. These measurements necessarily must consider the seasonality during the winter and summer months, for a sampling time at least of two weeks each month.
With the final tool, rulers can use the information to predict pollution episodes or take traffic measures addressed to decrease the atmospheric pollution.
A commercial agreement with technical assistance is expected with partners aimed at reducing emissions to fight climate change and with partners experienced in the field of the atmosphere (meteorology, pollution, and atmospheric chemistry), Climate Change or the Carbon Cycle to collaborate in the process of developing a plan or implementing measures to reduce these emissions. - Advantages and Innovations
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Within the framework of the active fight against Climate Change, the ecological transition and the progressive decarbonization of the economy, it is possible to achieve the community objective set in the New Geen Deal to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% in 2030 in a cost-efficient manner providing solutions to reduce GHG emissions and other pollutants.
Regarding the subject of Climate Change, it is difficult to estimate the concentration of air pollutants due to the insufficient knowledge about the source of the emissions and limited information available. The proposed solution allows to maintain a continuous monitoring, during an indefinite period of time about the emissions that are being generated.
Nowadays, Sentinel-5, another mission of the Copernicus programme, is focused on air quality and composition-climate interaction, but the main problem of Sentinel-5 is its coarse spatial resolution (5x7 km) unlike Sentinel-2 high spatial resolution (10 m) that allows to create high resolution models for air quality and emissions providing detailed knowledge of critical points and facilitate decision making. - Stage of Development
- Lab tested
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- This technology is aimed at companies/institutions/administrations looking to reduce emissions to fight climate change. Furthermore, collaboration with partner experienced in the field of the atmosphere (meteorology, pollution, and atmospheric chemistry), Climate Change or the Carbon Cycle, is sought for a collaboration in the process of elaboration of a plan or implement measures to reduce these emissions.
- Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME 50 - 249
- University
- R&D Institution
- SME 11-49
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 10002002 - Outdoor Air Pollution/Treatment
- 10002001 - Indoor Air Pollution/Treatment
- 010002001 - Air Pollution/Treatment
- 10002007 - Environmental Engineering / Technology
- Market keywords
- 08004001 - Air filters and air purification and monitoring equipment
- 08004004 - Other pollution and recycling related
- Sector Groups Involved
- Energy-Intensive Industries
- Targeted countries
- All countries