Resonant Acoustic Mixing facility for sustainable chemical manufacturing

该RAM设施的目的是由我们的化学，工程和化学工程研究人员团队建立，并与该技术的先驱开发商和唯一制造商Resodyn Acoustic Mixers合作，在英国创造一个国际可见的可持续工艺和材料创新的温床。这将是一个全球独特的，自我维持的资源，以帮助研究人员和行业启动绿色化学制造在英国通过创新技术，可持续的产品组合和潜在的创建分拆。近50封支持信显示了推动研究和可持续制造的潜力，这些支持信提供了潜在用户和可在记录和档案设施解决的问题的横截面。这些信件来自广泛的社区，包括来自英国和国外的高级和早期职业研究人员，跨学科中心，以及英国和国际中小企业和大型行业。信函还表明了与英国许多研究中心和国家设施的一致性和互补性。RAM设施的目标是促进基础科学和化学制造领域以可持续发展为导向的创新。这是总结在一组科学和技术挑战，将推进机械化学清洁制造，回收和废物增值，发现和开发材料的绿色，可持续技术（纳米材料，电池材料，超级电容器），和许多其他领域。这将促进不同的科学学科（化学，土木和机械工程，化学，物理，地球科学，冶金和材料，应用数学）和工业部门，包括（但不限于）增材制造，航空航天，汽车，农业，化学，国防，快速消费品，食品，绿色能源和制药部门。通过小型和大型中试规模的仪器，该设施将独特地支持机械化学的基础科学，并使可持续制造的新概念得以探索并立即提升到高TRL。全球仅安装了10个中试规模的系统，所有这些系统都位于工业现场，使我们的愿景成为一个真正“开放”的RAM设施，位于中心位置，易于访问，并由专门的工作人员提供支持，基于竞争和透明的研究卓越，EDI和RRI标准，真正具有变革性，对新的可持续技术具有高度影响力。

The aim of this RAM Facility, to be established by our team of researchers in Chemistry, Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and in partnership with Resodyn Acoustic Mixers, the pioneering developer and only manufacturer of this technology, is to create in the UK an internationally visible hotbed of innovation in sustainable processes and materials. It will be a globally unique, self-sustained resource to help researchers and industries kick-start green chemical manufacturing in the UK through innovative technologies, sustainable product portfolios and potentially creation of spin-outs. The potential to advance both research and sustainable manufacturing is evident by almost 50 Support Letters that provide a cross-section of potential users and problems that can be addressed at the RAM Facility. The letters come from a wide community, including senior and early career researchers from the UK and abroad, interdisciplinary centres, as well as UK and international SMEs and large industries. Letters also demonstrate alignment and complementarity with many UK research centres and national facilities.The objectives of the RAM Facility are to enable and promote sustainability-oriented innovation in fundamental science and chemical manufacturing. This is summarised in a set of Science and Technology Challenges that will advance mechanochemistry for clean manufacturing, recycling and waste valorisation, discovery and development of materials for green, sustainable technologies (nanomaterials, battery materials, supercapacitors), and many other areas. This will advance diverse science disciplines (chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics, geosciences, metallurgy and materials, and applied mathematics) and industry sectors, including (but not limited to) additive manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, agricultural, chemical, defence, FMCG, food, green energy, and pharmaceutical sectors. Through small- and large pilot-scale instruments, the facility will uniquely support fundamental science of mechanochemistry and enable new concepts for sustainable manufacturing to be explored and immediately advanced to high TRLs. Only 10 pilot-scale systems have been installed in the world, all of them within industry sites, making our vision to place such a system into a truly "open" RAM Facility, centrally located, easily accessible and supported by dedicated staff, with access based on competitive and transparent research excellence, EDI and RRI criteria, truly transformative and of high impact for new sustainable technologies.