With support from the Danish Maritime Fund, Danfoss IXA and Green Instruments are now taking the first steps towards creating an emissions sensor which will measure environmentally-impacting gases at source in ship chimneys.

Danfoss IXA and Green Instruments’ cooperation is literally riding the waves of the increasing demand for emissions measuring equipment for the maritime sector. With the support of the Danish Maritime Fund, it will be possible to implement Danfoss IXA’s breakthrough sensor technology in a platform from Green Instruments. By combining the platform and new measuring technology, the two entrepreneurial companies have an extremely robust product, which will measure the emission of CO2 and nitrous gases from ships throughout the world.

Sparkling cooperation
With different backgrounds as technology developer and technology integrator respectively, the sensor from Danfoss IXA and Green Instruments builds on a sparkling cooperation, driven by a shared ambition to enter the maritime sector.

“We see a great deal of attention towards emissions measurement today. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has already this year set up requirements for the measurement of CO2 released from ships, and by 2016, all new ships must reduce their emission of nitrous gases (NOx) by 80%. This has resulted in great demand for equipment which measures emissions at source in the chimney. So, with the project, we see huge potential for implementing a very promising technology in our platform,” says Poul Sørensen, Managing Director, Green Instruments.

Danfoss IXA is happy about the support of the Danish Maritime Fund and sees opportunities in the patented sensor technology:

“We are really happy about the support from the Danish Maritime Fund, because it gives us an opportunity to put our technology to use at sea. The marine market is incredibly important, and we hope that our technology will create a global Danish success within the maritime sector,” says Henrik Gedde Moos, CEO, Danfoss IXA.
 

An important step for Denmark
Denmark already has a dominant position within the shipping industry and the ambition for the project is to create a dominant position within emissions measurement.

“The Fund is pleased to support this development work, which we consider to be a future-oriented project aimed a very relevant topic for the shipping industry,” says Carsten Melchiors, Administrator for the Danish Maritime Fund.