Partnerships Needed for Miniaturized Methane Sensor (MMS)

Opportunity Description: Seeking industry partner on a Department of Energy funded project to adapt existing Sandia National Laboratories' technologies for a miniaturized methane monitoring system; producing a system that is intrinsically safe to reduce the commercialization burden for entry into the oil and gas marketplace. Sandia’s portion of the work is funded by the DOE Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) and is funded for three years.

Partners will fund their portion of the work through cash or in-kind funding (i.e., staff hours, equipment, facilities). Collaborators can be any non-federal entity, including private companies, state or local governments— or entities created by a state or local government—universities, or non-profit organizations. Collaborators must agree to engage in activities that focus on commercializing or deploying technologies in the marketplace.

Sandia invites interested parties to provide a detailed description of relevant background, experience, expertise, and capabilities that could be brought into a collaboration with Sandia. Specific requirements are as follows:

Knowledge and skills to bring products or services to market. Demonstrated experience, expertise, or products in identified technology area. Capable of providing a minimum of $396,000 in project funding using non-federal funds during the course of the proposed project, either in-kind or cash contribution.

In addition to evaluating the provided information as outlined above, Sandia will evaluate all responses and select prospective parties with which to engage in further discussions based on the following criteria, pursuant to Sandia ’s technology transfer mission: How will the respondent deploy the technology for the benefit of the public good? How will the respondent’s deployment of the technology benefit U.S. economic competitiveness?

Background Information: Since 2016 the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (DOE-OTT) issues an annual TCF call for proposals. The TCF provides funding to bridge the technology maturation gap and helps to facilitate federal Research and Development (R&D) investments in technologies with commercial potential. TCF offers an opportunity for private industry to collaborate with DOE’S Laboratories to advance national laboratory- developed energy technologies and Intellectual Property (IP) toward commercialization. You can find more information about TCF at DOE’s website: https://www.energy.gov/technologytransitions/services/technology-commercialization-fund.

Primary Point of Contact:

Lily Shain Lshain@sandia.gov Keywords: Methane Sensor Micro Gas Chromatography Methane Monitoring System