Ice-phobic and durable coatings for the aerospace and energy sectors (ICELIP)

结冰在不同的工业和能源应用中是一个复杂而昂贵的问题-飞机，风力涡轮机，电力线-导致事故和严重事故。主要的缓解方法依赖于机械破冰、电加热和除冰化学品。ICELIP项目的目的是开发一种被动式防冰涂层，该涂层还能为飞机应用提供足够的耐久性。这不仅会对航空业产生影响，还会对其他行业产生影响（其他运输：铁路、海运、汽车和能源：风力涡轮机、电力线）。主要好处包括：安全性提高4%，产品更加环保（通过减少飞机重量和燃油消耗，避免排放1亿升除冰液，减少8000万吨二氧化碳排放），更经济高效的产品（每年节省70亿英镑的燃料），和提高能效（例如增加20%的风能产量）。ICELIP项目是基于该财团部分成员以前的研发工作，集中于开发一种包括掺入标准航空透明涂层中的纳米添加剂的防冰涂层。该涂层系统表现出优异的防冰性和耐久性（TRL 3-4），需要进一步开发和测试，以适用于航空航天市场。

Icing represents a complex and expensive problem in different industrial and energy applications -- aircraft, wind turbines, power lines -- causing incidents and severe accidents. The main mitigation methods rely on mechanical breaking of the ice, electrical heating, and de-icing chemicals. These are expensive, inefficient, unreliable, and environmentally harmful.The aim of the ICELIP project is to develop a passive ice-repellent coating which also provides adequate durability for aircraft applications. This will have impacts not only in aviation, but also in other sectors (other transport: rail, maritime, automotive, and energy: wind turbines, power lines). The main benefits include: increased safety by 4%, more environmentally friendly products (avoiding discharge of 100 million litres of de-icing fluids and cutting emissions of 80million tonnes of CO2 by reducing aircraft weight and, thus, fuel consumption), more cost-efficient products (saving £7bn/year in fuel), and improved energy efficiency (e.g. increasing wind energy production by 20%).The ICELIP project is based on previous R&D work of part of the consortium, focused on the development of an ice-repellent coating comprising nano-additives incorporated in a standard aerospace clear coat. The coating system showed an outstanding combination of ice-repellency and durability (TRL 3-4) which will need further development and testing in order to be suitable for the aerospace market.