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Oxsensis Ltd, a spinout company from the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK has secured the lead role in a consortium to accelerate development of its harsh environment sensors to facilitate future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and the potential for considerable fuel savings in gas turbines for power generation, civil aviation and marine transportation.
Oxsensis is working on advanced sensors based on micromachined sapphire, co-developed by the company with scientists at RAL, to enable the development of combustion systems with much more precise control, offering significant fuel and energy savings for future gas turbine products. The extreme environment sensors also have applicability to energy intensive industries and to car engines.
The £1.07M award is under the DTI's Technology Strategy programmes and partners include Rolls-Royce plc and RAL. "A step-change in emissions in aviation and power generation requires control instrumentation to go where no sensors have gone before," said Oxsensis's Chief Executive David Gahan. "The consortium will put sensors right into the heart of some of the world's most advanced engine and power plant developments".
"It is about encouraging collaboration in order that companies can invest for the future and develop new world-beating products."
"I congratulate the project participants and wish them every success."