PFI-TT: Three Dimensional (3D) Printing of Ceramic Components with Hierarchical and Interconnected Pore Structures for Carbon Capture Applications

这一创新-技术转化伙伴关系项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是通过降低碳捕获技术的运营成本来应对全球变暖和气候变化。如果成功，该项目将能够制造创新的陶瓷整体吸附剂，这是碳捕获技术的关键部件。新的吸附剂可以比现有的胺基吸附剂需要更少的再生和吸附能量。该项目旨在通过三维（3D）打印产生生产吸附剂所需的科学和技术知识。碳捕获技术的广泛采用可能有助于缓解全球变暖和气候变化，以及挽救生命和极端天气事件造成的经济损失。此外，快速增长的碳市场将在美国创造新的就业机会，通过该项目的教育和领导力发展计划，研究生将获得对创新和创业的深刻理解，并提高他们的研究，项目管理和领导技能。本科生将加强他们的批判性思维和解决问题的能力，并获得创新和创业的基本认识。来自代表性不足群体的学生的参与将增加未来STEM劳动力的多样性。拟议的项目旨在开发整个3D打印过程，用于生产具有分层和互连孔结构的陶瓷部件，这些部件可用作碳捕获应用的吸附剂。使用现有的制造方法生产这种陶瓷部件是非常困难和昂贵的。拟议的项目利用粘合剂喷射三维（3D）打印与颗粒粉末。所提出的吸附剂的新奇在于它们含有具有四峰尺寸分布的互连孔。研究目标是：该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is to address global warming and climate change by reducing the operational costs of carbon capture technologies. If successful, this project will enable manufacturing of innovative ceramic monolithic adsorbents, the key components in carbon capture technologies. The new adsorbents may require less energy for regeneration and adsorption than existing amines-based absorbents. The project seeks to generate the scientific and technological knowledge necessary for producing the adsorbents through three dimensional (3D) printing. The wide-spread adoption of carbon capture technologies may help alleviate global warming and climate change, as well as save lives and economic losses from extreme weather events. Furthermore, the fast-growing carbon market will create new jobs in the U.S. Through this project’s educational and leadership development program, the graduate students will gain a solid understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship and sharpen their research, project management, and leadership skills. The undergraduate students will strengthen their critical thinking and problem-solving abilities and gain a basic understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The involvement of students from underrepresented groups will increase the diversity of the future STEM workforce.The proposed project aims to develop the entire 3D printing process for producing ceramic components with hierarchical and interconnected pore structures that can be used as adsorbents for carbon capture applications. It is very difficult and costly to produce such ceramic components using existing manufacturing methods. The proposed project utilizes binder jetting three dimensional (3D) printing with granulated powders. The novelty of the proposed adsorbents is that they contain interconnected pores with a quadrimodal size distribution. The research objectives are: (1) to develop the feedstock powder preparation process, (2) to identify a compatible binder for the feedstock powder, and (3) to develop the binder jetting 3D printing process.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.