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QLM Technology Ltd is a company that develops technology that provides a true understanding of greenhouse gas emissions in an affordable, accurate, and scalable way. QLM provides camera systems that continuously visualize and quantify greenhouse gas emissions. The company hopes to enable organizations to achieve Net Zero through the mitigation of these GHG emissions.
QLM changes the way emissions of methane and key greenhouse gases are monitored and quantified at the facility scale, enabling organizations to achieve net-zero through effective mitigation. The endorsement of BloombergNEF shows that the energy industry is beginning to recognize the necessity of continuous monitoring.
QLM is a proud member of the 2021 BloombergNEF Pioneers. Chosen from over 250 applications from 36 different countries, QLM is the only UK-based company featured among the Pioneers, who offer innovations in one of three major climate challenges:
- Managing and optimizing long-haul freight
- Advancing materials and techniques for sustainable products
- Monitoring and understanding our changing planet
QLM’s revolutionary quantum gas camera is well-positioned to address the third challenge, with its unique ability to detect, visualize and quantify emissions of methane and other key greenhouse gases. The quantum gas camera helps organizations achieve net-zero through the mitigation of emission sources.
QLM takes a unique approach to the challenge of enabling organizations to effectively monitor emissions of greenhouse gases.
The Tunable Diode Lidar (TDLidar) gas sensor offers a quantum approach to quantification.TDLidar combines drawing on quantum technology, applying Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) using a quantum Single Photon Avalanche Detector (SPAD). This is combined with aspects of existing open path gas measurement techniques, such as Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) and Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL).
TDLidar offers several benefits to the user, such as:
- Long-range, high-sensitivity, high-speed quantitative imaging of gas plume shape and concentration
- Precise mapping of gas leak locations and flow rates
- Fixed, mobile, drone, and handheld options
- Mains or battery power options
QLM has four fields of applications for its technology:
- Oil & Gas Emissions Monitoring
- Industrial Emissions Monitoring
- Biogas Emissions Monitoring
- Agricultural Emissions Monitoring
QLM Technology Ltd started as an idea of Chief Technical Officer, Xiao Ai, as he carried out postgraduate research into single-photon Lidar gas detection at the University of Bristol. Aware of the ever-growing need to comprehensively understand the extent of emissions of methane and other key greenhouse gases, he realized that his research, in which a Lidar beam simultaneously probed both the shape and the concentration of plumes of methane, could help enable organizations worldwide to achieve net-zero through mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2017, Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre (QTEC) helped Xiao form QLM Technology to explore the commercialization of his research, assigning him a business mentor in the form of Dr. Murray Reed, a photonics industry veteran with thirty years of experience commercializing cutting-edge technology in Silicon Valley. Murray then became CEO of QLM in June 2019.
Since then, QLM has been proud to collaborate with backers in the industrial, government and private sectors, notably Innovate UK who have been the major backer of the SPLICE project. QLM has also benefitted from the expertise of the National Physical Laboratory across a number of projects.
QLM releases its new solution to the industry – the first camera system that continuously visualizes and quantifies greenhouse gas emissions.
