Decarbonising coating in manufacturing

制造中的脱碳涂层

• 批准号: 76990
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: ARCHIPELAGO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=76990
• 关键词: Decarbonising; coating; manufacturing

Everything we buy is coated or painted. Cars, furniture, flooring, soft drink cans are all coated. Usually with many layers of paint and usually using a paint sprayer. Paint spraying is surprisingly wasteful. Typically only half the paint sprayed lands on the intended target. The other half goes into the air. Industrial coatings companies normally collect this waste paint in filters and burn them. When you add up all the waste it is huge. Some 3 million tonnes of coating are wasted world-wide every year. This results in over 30 million tonnes of CO2 generation per year, when the paint-laden filters are incinerated. That's about 9% of the UK's entire annual CO2 output. Archipelago's Powerdrop technology solves this problem. It puts down paint so that every drop lands where it is meant to and stays there. Because there is no waste, only half the paint is needed. Its cheaper for the coating industry and much better for the environment. Archipelago has made fully operational demonstrators that prove the technology at pilot scale. In this two-phase project, we plan to scale up and begin to roll out the technology to industries both in the UK and internationally.

我们买的所有东西都是涂层或喷漆的。汽车、家具、地板、软饮料罐都有涂层。通常有许多层油漆，通常使用喷漆器。喷漆是惊人的浪费。通常只有一半的油漆喷在预定的目标上。另一半进入空气中。工业涂料公司通常将这些废油漆收集在过滤器中并将其燃烧。当你把所有的垃圾加起来时，它是巨大的。全世界每年约有300万吨涂料被浪费。这导致每年超过3000万吨的二氧化碳产生，当油漆负载过滤器被焚烧时。这大约是英国全年二氧化碳排放量的9%。Archipelago的Powerdrop技术解决了这个问题。它放下油漆，使每一滴土地的地方，它是为了和停留在那里。因为没有浪费，所以只需要一半的油漆。它对涂料行业来说更便宜，对环境也更好。Archipelago已经制造了完全可操作的演示器，以试验规模证明了这项技术。在这个分两个阶段的项目中，我们计划扩大规模，并开始向英国和国际上的行业推广这项技术。