Next generation anti icing technologies - addressing a quintessential Canadian problem

下一代防冰技术 - 解决加拿大的一个典型问题

• 批准号: 474551-2014
• 负责人: Ragogna, Paul
• 金额: $ 2.15万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=618440
• 关键词: Next; generation; anti; icing; technologies

Infrastructure constructed in colder climates is destined to experience stresses consistent with freezing or below freezing temperatures. These conditions impose higher maintenance costs, limited lifetimes and in the case of production facilities (e.g. oil and gas rigs, pipelines or wind turbines) revenue loss is essentially assured. Continued ice build up exacerbates infrastructure downtime, worker health and safety and ultimately economic loss and this problem is, not surprisingly, ubiquitous to colder climates. The only effective methods currently employed for removing/preventing ice build up are active technologies such as resistive heating or vibration of the infrastructure. These are not sustainable deicing methods because of the energy required to implement them. There are no apparent new or emerging passive technologies on or coming to the market.A key industry where anti-ice coatings would serve as a substantial benefit is in the wind turbine market (related industry: Aerospace). Given that the Federal Government has a target to generate 90% of Canada's electricity from non emitting sources by 2020, without a doubt, the wind turbine industry will witness continued expansion over the next 5 to 10 years. However, the wind turbine industry suffers substantial down time because of ice related problems. In this context, this proposal for a Collaborative Research and Development Grant aims to apply a wholly new and innovative way to investigate and potentially remedy the ice accumulation problems within the wind turbine industry. Given the versatility of our new approach to both the application of innovative materials and measurement techniques, it is expected that any progress achieved in this arena could be extended to other areas of economic interest. The wide adoption of this technology will generate employment for Canadians in the materials and manufacturing sectors, and will put Canada at the leading edge of icephobic technology, which we would expect to be adopted globally.

在寒冷气候下建造的基础设施注定要承受与冰点或冰点以下温度一致的压力。这些条件带来了更高的维护成本、有限的使用寿命，对于生产设施（例如石油和天然气钻机、管道或风力涡轮机）来说，收入损失基本上是肯定的。持续积冰会加剧基础设施停机，影响工人的健康和安全，并最终造成经济损失，毫不奇怪，这个问题在寒冷的气候中普遍存在。目前用于去除/防止结冰的唯一有效方法是主动技术，例如电阻加热或基础设施振动。这些不是可持续的除冰方法，因为实施它们需要能量。市场上没有明显的新的或正在出现的被动技术。防冰涂层将带来巨大好处的一个关键行业是风力涡轮机市场（相关行业：航空航天）。鉴于联邦政府的目标是到 2020 年加拿大 90% 的电力来自非排放源，毫无疑问，风力涡轮机行业将在未来 5 至 10 年内持续扩张。然而，由于与冰有关的问题，风力涡轮机行业遭受了大量的停机时间。在此背景下，这项合作研究与开发补助金提案旨在应用一种全新的创新方法来调查并可能解决风力涡轮机行业内的积冰问题。鉴于我们的新方法在创新材料和测量技术应用方面的多功能性，预计在这一领域取得的任何进展都可以扩展到其他经济利益领域。这项技术的广泛采用将为加拿大人在材料和制造领域创造就业机会，并使加拿大处于防冰技术的领先地位，我们预计该技术将在全球范围内得到采用。