SBIR Phase I: Simple and Effective Fouling Release Coatings To Make Industrial Heat Exchangers More Energy Efficient

SBIR 第一阶段：简单有效的除垢涂层，使工业热交换器更加节能

• 批准号: 1447402
• 负责人: Sebnem Inceoglu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Nano Hydrophobics, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1447402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Simple; Effective; Fouling

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project include saving energy, lowering industrial and power generation-caused greenhouse gas emissions, improving the competitiveness of U.S. industry, and reducing the quantity of chemicals introduced into the nation?s water supplies. More than 1% of U.S. energy consumption is expended overcoming the insulating effects of naturally occurring mineral fouling. This technology has the potential to reduce U.S. energy consumption by 0.7 to 1.9% of annual US carbon-based energy representing from .55 to 1.5 quads. The reductions in energy consumption will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the order of 54.1 to 125.8 million metric tons of GHGs. Recognizing climate change is a worldwide problem, if fully deployed to other industrialized nations, this technology has the potential to eliminate 0.7% to 1.7% of the world's GHGs which equal 252.6 to 571.3 million metric tons of GHGs. The competitiveness of US products will be improved by large reductions of energy-related manufacturing costs without need of capital investment, and it will reduce chemical additives to cooling tower water. This project seeks a solution to "the major unresolved problem of heat transfer" which is naturally occurring mineral fouling on heat transfer surfaces (HTS). This often overlooked problem consumes 1% of the total energy consumed by the U.S. and other industrialized nations, and represents 1% of our planet's greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of the research is to develop long-lasting thin film coatings, which can protect HTS from fouling, while not impeding thermal efficiency. Using recently discovered nanomaterials, solution is applied as a coating to transform the surface properties of HTS to ones having the lowest surface energy values that have ever been created. With a low surface energy, the coatings reduce fouling nucleation as well as reducing fouling adherence to the HTS. The low adhesion of any fouling which nucleates, combined with the action of water flowing over the HTS should cause the release of any remaining fouling, effectively making the surfaces "self-cleaning." This self-cleaning mechanism has been successfully demonstrated in laboratory experiments. This research examines the fundamental chemistry and materials science of a new class of low surface energy self-assembling ultra hydrophobic nanocoatings that could spawn innovation across a range of disciplines.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括节约能源，降低工业和发电引起的温室气体排放，提高美国工业的竞争力，减少引入美国的化学品数量。S水供应。超过1%的美国能源消耗是用于克服自然产生的矿物污垢的绝缘效果。这项技术有可能使美国每年的碳基能源消耗减少0.7%至1.9%。55到1.5四边形。能源消耗的减少也将减少温室气体排放（ghg），大约减少5410万至1.258亿吨温室气体。认识到气候变化是一个全球性的问题，如果在其他工业化国家全面部署，这项技术有可能消除世界上0.7%至1.7%的温室气体，相当于2.526亿至5.713亿吨温室气体。在不需要资本投资的情况下，与能源相关的制造成本大幅降低，将提高美国产品的竞争力，并将减少冷却塔水中的化学添加剂。该项目寻求解决“传热的主要未解决问题”，即传热表面（HTS）上自然发生的矿物污垢。这个经常被忽视的问题消耗了美国和其他工业化国家总能源消耗的1%，占地球温室气体排放量的1%。这项研究的目的是开发持久的薄膜涂层，可以保护高温超导系统免受污染，同时不影响热效率。使用最近发现的纳米材料，溶液被用作涂层，以将高温超导的表面特性转变为具有有史以来最低表面能值的表面。由于具有较低的表面能，涂层减少了污垢的成核，并减少了污垢对高温超导系统的粘附。任何结核的污垢的低附着力，加上流经高温超导系统的水的作用，应该会导致任何剩余污垢的释放，有效地使表面“自清洁”。这种自清洁机制已经在实验室实验中得到了成功的证明。本研究探讨了一种新型低表面能自组装超疏水纳米涂层的基础化学和材料科学，这种涂层可以在一系列学科中产生创新。