System of systems for monitoring greenhouse gas fluxes
AssigneePlanetary Emissions Management, Inc.
InventorBruno D. V. Marino
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Abstract
A system of systems to monitor data for carbon flux, for example, at scales capable of managing regional net carbon flux and pricing carbon financial instruments is disclosed. The system of systems can monitor carbon flux in forests, soils, agricultural areas, body of waters, flue gases, and the like. The system includes a means to identify and quantify sources of carbon based on simultaneous measurement of isotopologues of carbon dioxide, for example, industrial, agricultural or natural sources, offering integration of same in time and space. Carbon standards are employed at multiple scales to ensure harmonization of data and carbon financial instruments.
Claims25
A system of systems for creating tradable products that separately quantify biogenic and fossil carbon, comprising:
- (a) a carbon data collection system for collecting carbon flux data comprising
- an array of analyzers placed in predetermined representative geographic locations, wherein each analyzer comprises a 12C laser device, a 13C laser device, a 14C laser device, and a sample chamber to measure the individual amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes contained in one or more samples, a modulator to modulate the 14C laser device, and a timer to allow measurements of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes at a sampling frequency of at least once an hour over a predetermined time period;
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- a standard reference gas module for obtaining a standard reference baseline and calibrating the measured amounts of the 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from each of said analyzers based on said standard reference baseline;
- (b) a global reference system including a 12C laser device, a 13C laser device, a 14C laser device, and a global reference sample cell to measure the individual amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes contained in a global reference sample;
- (c) a calibration system for standardizing the measured amount of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from the analyzers of said carbon data collection system based on said measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes contained in the global reference sample to obtain standardized amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes;
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- (d) a data processing system for receiving and converting one or more of the measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from each of said analyzers, the standard reference baseline, the standardized amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes and the calibrated measured amounts of the 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes to tradable products that separately quantify biogenic and fossil carbon.
A method for generating tradable products that separately quantify biogenic and fossil carbon flux comprising:
- (a) placing an array of analyzers at predetermined representative geographic locations, wherein each analyzer comprises a 12C laser device, a 13C laser device, a 14C laser device, a modulator to modulate the 14C laser device, and a sample chamber;
- (b) collecting one or more samples in the sample chambers of the analyzers;
- (c) measuring the individual amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes contained in the samples at a sampling frequency of at least once an hour over a predetermined time period;
- (d) obtaining a standard reference baseline with a standard reference gas module;
- (e) calibrating the measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from each of the analyzers based on the standard reference baseline;
- (f) standardizing the measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes in the at least one forest samples based on measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes in a global reference sample;
- (g) sending one or more of the measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from each of said analyzers, the standard reference baseline, the calibrated measured amounts of the 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes and the standardized amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes to a data processing system;
- (h) converting said one or more of the measured amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes from each of said analyzers, the standard reference baseline, the calibrated measured amounts of the 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes and the standardized amounts of 12C, 13C, and 14C isotopes in the data processing system to tradable products that separately quantify biogenic and fossil carbon flux.
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