Electric field assisted processing of materials for continuous production technology

电场辅助材料加工连续生产技术

• 批准号: MR/T044411/1
• 负责人: Robert Bell
• 金额: $ 96.08万
• 依托单位: C-Tech Innovation (United Kingdom)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT044411%2F1
• 关键词: Electric; field; assisted; processing; materials

The UK industrial strategy has identified fuel switching to electrical processes as a fundamental building block to maintain manufacturing in the UK and reduce emissions. Climate change legislation has set a deadline for the UK to be carbon neutral by 2050 and this will require the reinvention of a huge number of industrial manufacturing processes across a wide range of sectors.The shift to electricity as the energy vector allowing transition away from fossil fuels has many advantages reducing both emissions and increasing flexibility of supply providing stability for UK industry. Additionally in many applications using electrical energy can have other advantages such as reduced start-up time and increased production flexibility, which have been overlooked as energy costs drive production process design.The technical approach is based on the exploration of the theme of electric field effects on materials and processes. There are existing pieces of equipment at C-Tech Innovation Ltd that will form the basis of the work program and allow the development of novel experimental rigs to explore and characterise the effects observed over a number of studies. These include electric field assisted kiln technology, continuous flow microwave chemistry equipment, and atmospheric non equilibrium plasma. The effects of electric field on each of these areas have been observed and characterised both in the published literature and also in over 35 years of internal research reports undertaken at C-Tech Innovation and predecessor organisations in projects performed for a wide range of customers. It is expected that the development of a more complete understanding of the mechanisms and interactions will lead to an opportunity to create new applications for the use of electric fields in processes. The use of combined frequencies to generate specific effects or the interaction with pressure and temperature regimes will lead the company forward. The overall technical plan for the company will come out of this work setting in motion developments that will become core technologies after 2030 and lead to sustainable business model moving forwards. The technical elements will be aligned with a second stream of business focused development that will aid both the development of the fellow and the planning of the technical development work stream. The challenge for all businesses will be managing a transition to a low carbon industry in the decade 2030-2040 which will create disruptive influences in the type location and structure of industry . The integration of specific technology in to commercially planning require both strategic scenarios and detailed total cost of ownership modelling.The work will include reviews of industrial and economic trends in manufacturing which will be developed through cross sector interview and workshops. The aim will be to engage a cross section of stakeholders and move through a structured evidence gathering and sharing process to highlight the technical, policy and strategic issues to be addressed.C-Tech Innovation Ltd is an ISO 9001:2015 certified organisation and we have a detailed project management process suited to our area of bespoke special purpose machinery building and testing. We work with chemical, pharmaceutical, food, engineering, nuclear and other companies around the world. We have collaborated with hundreds of leading universities around the world and continue to do so on innovative projects.

英国的工业战略已确定将燃料转换为电气过程作为维持英国制造业和减少排放的基本组成部分。气候变化立法已经为英国设定了到2050年实现碳中和的最后期限，这将需要在广泛的行业中重新发明大量的工业制造工艺。电力作为能源载体的转变允许从化石燃料过渡有许多优点，既减少了排放，又增加了供应的灵活性，为英国工业提供了稳定性。此外，在许多应用中，使用电能还具有其他优势，如缩短启动时间和提高生产灵活性，这些优势在能源成本驱动生产工艺设计时被忽视。该技术方法基于对电场对材料和工艺的影响主题的探索。C-Tech Innovation Ltd现有的设备将构成工作计划的基础，并允许开发新的实验装置，以探索和验证在许多研究中观察到的影响。这些技术包括电场辅助窑炉技术、连续流微波化学设备和大气非平衡等离子体。电场对这些区域的影响在已发表的文献中以及在C-Tech Innovation和前身组织为广泛客户执行的项目中进行的超过35年的内部研究报告中都有观察和描述。人们预计，一个更完整的理解的机制和相互作用的发展将导致一个机会，创造新的应用程序中使用的电场的过程。使用组合频率产生特定效果或与压力和温度机制的相互作用将引领公司向前发展。公司的整体技术计划将从这项工作中产生，这些工作将在2030年后成为核心技术，并导致可持续的商业模式向前发展。技术要素将与第二个业务重点发展流保持一致，这将有助于研究员的发展和技术开发工作流的规划。所有企业面临的挑战将是在2030-2040年的十年中管理向低碳行业的过渡，这将对行业的类型、位置和结构产生破坏性影响。将特定技术纳入商业规划需要战略方案和详细的总拥有成本建模。工作将包括审查制造业的工业和经济趋势，这些趋势将通过跨部门访谈和研讨会进行。C-Tech Innovation Ltd是一家通过ISO 9001：2015认证的组织，我们拥有适合我们定制专用机械制造和测试领域的详细项目管理流程。我们与世界各地的化工、制药、食品、工程、核能和其他公司合作。我们与世界各地数百所领先的大学合作，并继续在创新项目上这样做。