Executive Summary
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MNT Gas Sensor Roadmap Prepared by the MNT Gas Sensor Forum December 2006 MNT Gas Sensor Roadmap version 3.0 Executive Summary Why consider gas sensors? Gas detection is important to the UK, not only because of the manufacturing industry but also because a number of wider societal benefits result from the use of gas sensors:
• Providing early diagnostics in healthcare, • Monitoring complex processes that ensure a sustainable economy, • Monitoring and reducing pollutants in the environment, • Providing early detection and forensic analysis for security, • Reducing pollution by improving efficiency in transport.
Scope and purpose This application-led roadmap has been drawn together by the Forum’s steering committee, informing government-level decision makers of this industry’s needs and research challenges, and supporting corporate decision-making.
This UK MNT Gas Sensors Forum started with two DTI-sponsored workshops in 2005. The Forum links the gas detection community (industry, consultants and the research base) and micro and nanotechnology (MNT) technology providers.
Our approach Fragmentation of the gas sensor market means that few niche applications can justify investment costs for step changes in technology. Fortunately there are many such niches, which together can provide broader justification. We generated a matrix of gas detection applications / technologies, agreeing on the potential impact for each area. This matrix is a useful market analysis tool in its own right.
Individual roadmaps were drawn together for fourteen application areas, and represent the current view of this steering group. The information contained within these roadmaps may be controversial, since predicting the future is impossible.
Finally, this report details our collective views of each market and each technology, considering the opportunities for both research and exploitation. We hope that you will provide feedback, refining this consensus view, captured within a living document.
The UK gas detection community has a strong heritage and is well served by several trade and government sponsored groups. We have drawn on the collective knowledge of the following: • Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network (Sensors KTN) • Gas Analysis and Sensing Group (GASG) • Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring (CoGDEM) • OptoCem.net KTN • Members of the gas detection community
Gas sensing in the UK • UK sensor research was considered by the 2002 Sensors Foresight study to give a healthy return to the treasury. • The gas sensor industry is driven by high technology SMEs. • Gas sensors, the enabling technology, are mostly developed and manufactured in the UK, while gas detection systems manufacture is frequently outsourced. • This strong UK SME industry is at risk of missing out on the next generation of technology developments because of the investment cost barrier. • Recent consolidation has brought some UK companies into US ownership, which is starting to weaken the UK sensor technology base. • The 2002 Sensor Foresight study considered the UK to be weak in microengineered sensors, but government MNT investment has improved the infrastructure landscape. • The opportunity now is for pre-competitive development, exploiting the MNT infrastructure and research base. MNT Gas Sensor Roadmap version 3.0 Market size and growth Globally, the gas sensor market is £250 M/yr, with sensor systems totalling >£1.5 B. The principal markets are: • Fire and domestic gas detection: £80M; a mature market, with growth in domestic CO. • Automotive (ignoring lambda): £5M; rapid growth in cabin air quality monitoring, with large potential growth in emissions control. • Industrial safety: £80M; a mature market with rapid expansion in developing economies. • Process control and emissions monitoring: £20M; legislation- and efficiency- driven growth. • Breath and drugs: £20M; large potential growth in medical diagnostics, but research is needed. • Environmental monitoring: £5M; large potential growth, but technically challenging and legislation is not yet in place. • Security and military £30M, with event-driven growth.
Technology priorities High impact technologies include separation science, electronic components, optical light sources, nanomaterials, low cost/ integrated optics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMs), MEMs/ CMOS integration and electrochemical cells. Specific MNT priorities are: Nanomaterials • Functionalised materials for gas filtration and separation. • Reproducible manufacture of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots and nanostructured metal oxides for improved gas sensitivity and selectivity. Microfabrication • High temperature amplifiers and logic for extreme environments. • Si MEMS integrated optics as a generic platform to address several niche markets, migrating telecoms manufacturing to small-run gas sensors. • Broad spectrum MEMS to discriminate compounds: micro mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry and gas chromatography. • Establish credible production of new mid-IR light sources.
