DTI award for emissions expertise

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(NPL) has secured DTI funding which will enable it to develop its expertise in emission detection and monitoring, and expand into evolving markets where increased legislation has led to the need for extra environmental monitoring.

The Teddington-based facility was awarded £430,000 in the third round of the Public Sector Research Exploitation (PSRE), announced last week. It was one of 29 innovative UK projects that won funding totalling £25m to convert research into commercial success.

Dr Melanie Williams, group leader of Environmental Measurement at NPL explained how the funding will have a two-fold effect. ‘Part of it is business development and part is extending our capability into where new areas will herald new requirements for landfill monitoring and security monitoring.’

This will mean upgrading NPL’s DIAL facility (differential absorption by LIDAR) for use in emerging markets. DIAL is a mobile, laser-based technique that fires a beam of UV, visible or infrared radiation to measure gas concentrations across a wide area rather than the conventional technique of taking samples at a single point.