Development of Innovative Test Bed Fixture in Measuring Air Cathode Membrane Film Thickness

开发测量空气阴极膜膜厚度的创新测试台夹具

• 批准号: CCARD-2022-00689
• 负责人: Sheikhzadeh, Mehdi
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: CCI Applied Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=743722
• 关键词: Development; Innovative; Test; Bed; Fixture

e-Zinc's technology is a paradigm shift in energy storage. Located in Toronto, Canada, e-Zinc has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. The company is looking to continue this work by scaling up the manufacturing of a best-in-class electrode for its novel zinc-air battery. Lambton College and e-Zinc have successfully automated the data collection of the conductivity measurements, building a data acquisition unit that automatically takes sample measurements once a sample is manually loaded in the fixture and outputting it into an easily processable format. However, the current method requires time to load the sample, ensuring the fixture applies even pressure across the sample surface. e-Zinc is interested in collaborating with Lambton College to uncover a solution to this issue and design a test bed fixture to measure air cathode membrane film thickness. Unfortunately, there is currently no off-the-shelf solution for this problem; thus, continued research, prototyping, and testing are needed. The next phase of this collaborative research is essential to deploying the e-Zinc Air Cathode Pilot Line in late 2023. The results from this project will provide e-Zinc with an improved process and add additional capabilities to e-Zinc's quality control program for air cathode production, further enhancing the electrode's quality control. It is anticipated that the results from this project will lead to the creation of full-time employment positions as e-Zinc will be able to establish a full-scale operation. Finally, e-Zinc's energy storage solution will provide significant environmental benefits, such as lowering fossil fuel consumption and significantly reducing GHG emissions.

e-Zinc的技术是储能领域的一个范式转变。位于加拿大多伦多的e-Zinc开发了一种突破性的电化学技术，用于在锌金属中储存能量。该公司希望通过扩大其新型锌空气电池的一流电极的制造来继续这项工作。 兰顿学院和e-Zinc公司已经成功地实现了电导率测量数据收集的自动化，建立了一个数据采集单元，一旦样品被手动加载到夹具中，该单元就会自动进行样品测量，并将其输出为易于处理的格式。然而，目前的方法需要时间来加载样品，以确保夹具在样品表面上施加均匀的压力。e-Zinc有兴趣与兰顿学院合作，以发现解决这个问题的方法，并设计一个测试台夹具来测量空气阴极膜膜厚度。不幸的是，目前还没有现成的解决方案来解决这个问题;因此，需要继续进行研究、原型设计和测试。这项合作研究的下一阶段对于在2023年底部署e-Zinc空气阴极试验线至关重要。该项目的结果将为e-Zinc提供改进的工艺，并为e-Zinc的空气阴极生产质量控制程序增加额外的功能，进一步加强电极的质量控制。预计该项目的结果将导致创造全职就业岗位，因为e-Zinc将能够建立全面的业务。最后，e-Zinc的储能解决方案将带来显著的环境效益，例如降低化石燃料消耗和显著减少温室气体排放。