Additive manufacturing of indoor power generating devices (Phase I)

室内发电装置增材制造（一期）

• 批准号: 561742-2021
• 负责人: Welch, Gregory
• 金额: $ 9.11万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=724416
• 关键词: Additive; manufacturing; indoor; power; generating

The Functional Materials and Advanced Coatings Laboratory at the University of Calgary run by Professor Gregory Welch (Department of Chemistry) has developed a new materials system and processing platform to deliver flexible, lightweight, and semitransparent photovoltaic (PV) cells. The PV cells are constructed from organic materials and dyes derived from petrochemicals and are fabricated using roll-to-roll printing methods rendering the devices ultra low-cost (cents per watt) and allowing for localized manufacturing here in Alberta. Working with Innovate Calgary the technology is protected by 3 issued patents and 2 provisional patents. First point of use is for indoor light recycling where the PV cells are integrated with IoT sensors to use LED light emission to power the sensors - this is an emerging billion dollar industry and we aim to be the first SME in Canada producing PV cells for this application. Canadian partners can include the NRC, Institute for Printing and Graphics Communication, and Brilliant Matters. Technology is at TRL4 with fully printed PV prototypes developed and evaluated for performance and stability in a laboratory setting. Funding is requested to fund HQP to scale this technology (materials and cells) for circuit integration and on-site testing and further increase PV performance. Success of this project will lead to a HQP lead start-up company with commercial products expected within 3-years. Two HQP will be directly trained. Long-term objectives with continued investment and revenue will involve using our proprietary methods to develop solar PV windows for greenhouseapplications and rollable PV sheets for remote power generation.

由Gregory Welch教授（化学系）管理的卡尔加里大学功能材料和先进涂层实验室开发了一种新的材料系统和加工平台，以提供灵活，轻质和半透明的光伏（PV）电池。光伏电池由有机材料和来自石化产品的染料制成，并使用卷对卷印刷方法制造，使设备成本超低（每瓦美分），并允许在阿尔伯塔本地化制造。与Innovate Calgary合作，该技术受到3项已授权专利和2项临时专利的保护。第一个使用点是室内光回收，其中光伏电池与物联网传感器集成，使用LED光发射为传感器供电-这是一个新兴的数十亿美元的行业，我们的目标是成为加拿大第一家为该应用生产光伏电池的中小企业。加拿大的合作伙伴可以包括NRC，印刷和图形通信研究所和辉煌的事情。技术处于TRL 4，开发了完全印刷的PV原型，并在实验室环境中进行了性能和稳定性评估。要求提供资金，资助HQP扩大该技术（材料和电池）的规模，用于电路集成和现场测试，并进一步提高光伏性能。该项目的成功将导致一个HQP领先的初创公司与商业产品，预计在3年内。两名HQP将直接接受培训。持续投资和收入的长期目标将涉及使用我们的专有方法开发用于温室应用的太阳能光伏窗户和用于远程发电的可卷曲光伏板。