Next Generation Processing Technologies for Power Generation: Phase 2

英国制造业的长期未来取决于可持续发展和实现政府目标。然而，提高制造业成本效益的需求对保持竞争力至关重要，也是生存和再增长的关键，这与受到COVID-19严重影响的中部制造业集群尤其相关。至关重要的是，工业界通过创新不仅要实现成本节约，还要实现环境可持续性和清洁增长，从而创造一个更可持续的经济。该项目是第一阶段可行性研究的直接后续项目，旨在通过提供可持续的解决方案来解决行业难题，从而提高业务和行业效率。在广泛的应用中，需要对部件的表面进行改性，以提供最佳的功能和性能。然而，目前高价值制造业的表面纹理化和精加工操作严重依赖于肮脏、危险和不可持续的传统工艺，目前还没有有意义的替代品，可以以成本提供性能水平，同时提供可持续性优势。高价值制造中的整理工艺通常涉及酸-基于化学蚀刻和介质喷砂，由于他们的知识基础和易于加工困难的材料。虽然硬件被认为成本相对较低，但由于非增值工艺步骤、扩大的工厂占地面积以及高昂的运营和基础设施成本，存在显著的成本效率低下。此外，当前的工艺在多个废物流和能源使用方面对环境产生了重大影响。TextureJet具有完全取代这些传统工艺的技术潜力。TextureJet的核心技术是一种独特的中性溶液电化学加工工艺，它提供了一种创新的清洁解决方案，以解决当前方法的经济和环境限制。它可以粗糙化，抛光，蚀刻和结构化表面，而不会引起表面损伤或需要掩蔽。它具有优于现有技术的简单性的益处，有助于低成本可扩展性、精确性和灵活性。Vitally TextureJet的解决方案具有环境可持续性，无需使用有毒化学品，仅需低浓度盐水溶液，无粉尘或烟雾污染，加工效率高达100%。独特的是，它可以在现场或原位进行，因此可以大大减少生产线的占地面积。通过这个项目，TextureJet将展示其技术的可行性，通过提供一个具有成本效益的解决方案，大大减少整理技术对环境的影响，其中一个目前不存在，使英国制造业“重建更好”。

The long-term future of UK manufacturing is reliant on sustainability and achieving government targets. However, the need for increased cost efficiency in manufacturing is critical to remain competitive and key for survival and regrowth, which is especially relevant to the midlands manufacturing cluster having been severely impacted by COVID-19\. It is paramount that industry realise, through innovation, not only cost savings but environmental sustainability and clean growth thus creating a more sustainable economy. Therefore, technologies that can achieve all these goals are highly sought.This project is a direct follow on from the Phase-1 feasibility study and is intended to improve business and industry efficiency by providing a sustainable solution to industry pains. Across a wide number of applications, there is a need to modify surfaces of components providing the optimum function and performance. However, current surface texturing and finishing operations across high-value manufacturing are heavily dependent upon dirty, dangerous, and unsustainable legacy processes, with currently no meaningful alternatives available offering a level of performance at cost whilst delivering a sustainability advantage.Finishing processes in high-value manufacturing typically involve acid-based chemical etching and media blasting due to their knowledge base and ease of working difficult materials. Although the hardware is considered relatively low cost, there are significant cost inefficiencies caused by non-value-added process steps, enlarged factory footprint and high operating and infrastructure costs. Additionally, current processes have a significant environmental impact across multiple waste streams and energy usage.TextureJet has the technological potential to replace these legacy processes in their entirety. TextureJet's core technology is a unique, neutral solution electrochemical machining process which offers an innovative and clean solution to address both the economic and environmental constraints of current methods. It can roughen, polish, etch and structure surfaces, without inducing surface damage or the requirement of masking. It has the benefits over prior art of simplicity aiding low-cost scalability, precision, and flexibility. Vitally TextureJet's solution is environmentally sustainable, eliminating use of toxic chemicals only requiring low concentration saltwater solutions, with no dust or fume contamination and can operate at up to 100% machining efficiencies. Uniquely, it can be performed onsite or in-situ, so the production line attributable footprint can be drastically reduced.Through this project, TextureJet will demonstrate the viability of its technology to vastly reduce the environmental impact of finishing technologies by providing a cost-efficient solution where one does not currently exist enabling UK manufacturing to 'build back better'.