Next Generation Processing Technologies for Power Generation: Phase 2

英国制造业的长期未来依赖于可持续性和实现政府目标。然而，提高制造业成本效率的需求对于保持竞争力至关重要，也是生存和再增长的关键，这与受COVID-19严重影响的中部地区制造业集群尤其相关。最重要的是，通过创新，行业意识到不仅可以节省成本，还可以实现环境可持续性和清洁增长，从而创造更可持续的经济。因此，能够实现所有这些目标的技术受到高度追捧。该项目是第一阶段可行性研究的直接后续，旨在通过为行业难题提供可持续的解决方案来提高业务和行业效率。在广泛的应用中，需要修改组件的表面以提供最佳的功能和性能。然而，目前高价值制造业的表面纹理和精加工作业严重依赖于肮脏、危险和不可持续的传统工艺，目前没有有意义的替代方案，既能提供低成本的性能，又能提供可持续性优势。高价值制造业的精加工工艺通常涉及酸基化学蚀刻和介质爆破，因为它们的知识基础和处理困难材料的便捷性。尽管硬件成本相对较低，但由于非增值工艺步骤、工厂占地面积扩大以及运营和基础设施成本高，存在显著的成本效率低下。此外，目前的工艺对多种废物流和能源使用都有重大的环境影响。TextureJet具有完全取代这些传统流程的技术潜力。TextureJet的核心技术是一种独特的中性溶液电化学加工工艺，它提供了一种创新和清洁的解决方案，以解决当前方法的经济和环境限制。它可以粗糙，抛光，蚀刻和结构表面，而不会引起表面损伤或遮蔽要求。与现有技术相比，它具有简单性的优点，有助于低成本的可扩展性、精确性和灵活性。Vitally TextureJet的解决方案是环境可持续发展的，消除了有毒化学物质的使用，只需要低浓度的盐水溶液，没有灰尘或烟雾污染，并且可以以高达100%的加工效率运行。独特的是，它可以在现场或现场进行，因此可以大大减少生产线的可归因于足迹。通过这个项目，TextureJet将展示其技术的可行性，通过提供一种经济高效的解决方案，大大减少整理技术对环境的影响，使英国制造业能够“更好地重建”。

The long-term future of UK manufacturing is reliant on sustainability and achieving government targets. However, the need for increased cost efficiency in manufacturing is critical to remain competitive and key for survival and regrowth, which is especially relevant to the midlands manufacturing cluster having been severely impacted by COVID-19\. It is paramount that industry realise, through innovation, not only cost savings but environmental sustainability and clean growth thus creating a more sustainable economy. Therefore, technologies that can achieve all these goals are highly sought.This project is a direct follow on from the Phase-1 feasibility study and is intended to improve business and industry efficiency by providing a sustainable solution to industry pains. Across a wide number of applications, there is a need to modify surfaces of components providing the optimum function and performance. However, current surface texturing and finishing operations across high-value manufacturing are heavily dependent upon dirty, dangerous, and unsustainable legacy processes, with currently no meaningful alternatives available offering a level of performance at cost whilst delivering a sustainability advantage.Finishing processes in high-value manufacturing typically involve acid-based chemical etching and media blasting due to their knowledge base and ease of working difficult materials. Although the hardware is considered relatively low cost, there are significant cost inefficiencies caused by non-value-added process steps, enlarged factory footprint and high operating and infrastructure costs. Additionally, current processes have a significant environmental impact across multiple waste streams and energy usage.TextureJet has the technological potential to replace these legacy processes in their entirety. TextureJet's core technology is a unique, neutral solution electrochemical machining process which offers an innovative and clean solution to address both the economic and environmental constraints of current methods. It can roughen, polish, etch and structure surfaces, without inducing surface damage or the requirement of masking. It has the benefits over prior art of simplicity aiding low-cost scalability, precision, and flexibility. Vitally TextureJet's solution is environmentally sustainable, eliminating use of toxic chemicals only requiring low concentration saltwater solutions, with no dust or fume contamination and can operate at up to 100% machining efficiencies. Uniquely, it can be performed onsite or in-situ, so the production line attributable footprint can be drastically reduced.Through this project, TextureJet will demonstrate the viability of its technology to vastly reduce the environmental impact of finishing technologies by providing a cost-efficient solution where one does not currently exist enabling UK manufacturing to 'build back better'.