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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Greenhouse gas sensors fabricated with new materials for monitoring climate change: A review
Kalathur Santhanam
and
N N N Ahamed
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
W
ith increasing utilization of fossil fuels in today’s technological world, the atmosphere is having increased concentrations
of greenhouse gases that need to be controlled in it. For achieving this goal, it is imperative to have sensors that could
provide the data on greenhouse effect gases in the environment. The recent literature contains a few publications using new
methods and materials for sensing these gases. The first part of this review is focused on the possible effects of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere and the second part surveys the developments of sensors for greenhouse gases with coverage on carbon
nano materials and the composites directed towards sensing gases like CO2, CH4 and NOx (Figure 1). With carbon dioxide
measurements, due consideration for the dissolved carbon dioxide gas in water (moisture) is focused. The density functional
calculations projects Pd doped single walled carbon nanotubes as ideal for the development of NOx sensor. The current trend is
to make sensors through 3D printing or inkjet printing to allow the reach of ppb levels of sensitivity that has not been realized
before.
Biography
Kalathur Santhanam has been actively working on developing clean energy programs and has been actively developing sensors that would monitor greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. He has published over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals and also co-authored books on hydrogen technology and clean energy. He
is teaching courses on clean energy at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester.
ksssch@rit.eduKalathur Santhanam et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036