SBIR Phase I: Sustainable and Highly Effective Anti-Corrosive Primers Using Organic Additives

SBIR第一阶段项目旨在开发一种新型的、完全可持续/可再生的防腐环氧底漆配方，该配方能够达到或超过有毒铬酸盐体系提供的腐蚀保护。 此外，预计这种底漆将取代其他依赖于其他有价值金属资产（例如锌）的环氧底漆。 该项目开发的开创性方法利用了美国的资源/科学知识，并采用了一类新的全有机防腐颜料，带来了一种全新且非常有效的科学方法。 这些颜料将在美国生产，不依赖外国金属供应或劳动力; SBIR努力开发的化学加工方法正在申请美国专利，在环境和经济方面都表现出色。 这个SBIR项目是一个案例，美国的创新和科学联合收割机结合，创造美国制造业的就业机会，并揭示了防腐环氧底漆业务的转型技术。 停止腐蚀使美国的商业和国防资产保持服务，使生产力高的人工作，并保持我们国家的安全和繁荣。 随着自然资源和能源变得有限和昂贵，减缓腐蚀确实是21世纪世纪面临的重要技术挑战之一。该项目首先实现了一种详细的新的和破坏性的化学合成技术，用于经济和环保地生产特定的全有机防腐颜料。 该项目利用这些全有机防腐颜料，以溶剂选择和混合的艺术和科学为基础，推进和创造了一类新的低挥发性有机化合物（VOC）防腐环氧底漆。 这种创新组合的定位是提供第一种非铬酸盐和全有机防腐蚀环氧底漆，可以轻松取代目前有毒和昂贵的铬酸盐基底漆。 目前的合成技术无法提供具有成本效益的添加剂路线，该计划解决了这一问题，并将准备100 g至1 Kg规模的几个示例，以充分展示该技术，并为大型化学反应器和工艺的设计提供参数数据。 第一阶段项目还将创造一系列新的高固体环氧涂料，满足相关军事标准中规定的低VOC排放值、干燥时间、防腐和附着力要求;项目中开发的底漆将经过测试，以满足这些严格的要求。 这些数据将提供关键性能和测试数据，以验证涂料配方在商业和国防市场上的认证和验收。

This SBIR Phase I project seeks to develop a novel and fully sustainable/renewable anti-corrosion epoxy primer formulation that meets or exceeds the corrosion protection that is provided by the toxic chromate-based systems. In addition, it is projected this primer will replace other epoxy primers that rely on additional valuable metal assets, for example zinc. The pioneering approach developed in this project utilizes US resources/scientific knowledge and it employs a new class of all-organic anti-corrosion pigments bringing in a fresh and very effective scientific method. These pigments will be manufactured in the US with no reliance on foreign metal supplies or labor; the chemical processing methods developed in this SBIR effort are US patent pending and are both environmentally and economically outstanding in performance. This SBIR project is a case where US based innovation and science combine to create US jobs in manufacturing and bring to light a transformational technology in the anti-corrosion epoxy primer business. Stopping corrosion keeps US commercial and defense assets in service, keeps productive people working, and keeps our country safe and prosperous. Mitigating corrosion is truly one of the important technological challenges ahead in the 21st century as natural resources and energy become limited and more costly. This project brings to fruition first a detailed new and disruptive chemical synthesis technology for an economically and environmentally sound production of specific all-organic anti-corrosive pigments. The project utilizes these all-organic anti-corrosive pigments to advance and create a new class of Low volatile-organic-compound (VOC) anti-corrosion epoxy primers based on the art and science of solvent selection and blending. This combination of innovations is positioned to provide the first non-chromate and all-organic anti-corrosion epoxy primer that can replace with ease the present toxic and costly chromate-based primers. Current synthetic technologies cannot afford a cost-effective route to the additives and this program addresses that concern and will prepare several examples at the 100 g to 1 Kg scale to fully demonstrate the technology and provide parametric data for the design of larger chemical reactors and processes. This Phase I project will also create a new series of high-solids epoxy coatings that meet the Low-VOC emission value, dry time, corrosion protection, and adhesion requirements as laid out in appropriate military standards; primers developed in the project will be tested to meet these stringent requirements. These data will provide the critical performance and test data necessary to validate the coating formulations for certification and acceptance in both the commercial and defense marketplaces.