Ice-phobic and durable coatings for the aerospace and energy sectors (ICELIP)

在飞机、风力涡轮机、电力线等不同的工业和能源应用中，结冰是一个复杂而昂贵的问题，会引发事故和严重事故。主要的缓解方法依赖于机械破冰、电加热和化学除冰。这些方法昂贵、低效、不可靠，而且对环境有害。iceip项目的目的是开发一种被动防冰涂层，该涂层也为飞机应用提供足够的耐久性。这不仅会对航空业产生影响，还会对其他行业产生影响（其他运输：铁路、海运、汽车和能源：风力涡轮机、电力线）。其主要好处包括：安全性提高4%，产品更环保（减少1亿升除冰液排放，减少8000万吨二氧化碳排放，从而减少飞机重量，从而减少燃料消耗），产品更具成本效益（每年节省70亿英镑的燃料），提高能源效率（例如将风能产量提高20%）。iceip项目是基于该联盟之前的部分研发工作，重点是开发一种防冰涂层，该涂层包括纳米添加剂，并结合在标准的航空透明涂层中。该涂层系统具有出色的防冰性和耐久性（TRL 3-4），需要进一步的开发和测试，以适用于航空航天市场。

Icing represents a complex and expensive problem in different industrial and energy applications -- aircraft, wind turbines, power lines -- causing incidents and severe accidents. The main mitigation methods rely on mechanical breaking of the ice, electrical heating, and de-icing chemicals. These are expensive, inefficient, unreliable, and environmentally harmful.The aim of the ICELIP project is to develop a passive ice-repellent coating which also provides adequate durability for aircraft applications. This will have impacts not only in aviation, but also in other sectors (other transport: rail, maritime, automotive, and energy: wind turbines, power lines). The main benefits include: increased safety by 4%, more environmentally friendly products (avoiding discharge of 100 million litres of de-icing fluids and cutting emissions of 80million tonnes of CO2 by reducing aircraft weight and, thus, fuel consumption), more cost-efficient products (saving £7bn/year in fuel), and improved energy efficiency (e.g. increasing wind energy production by 20%).The ICELIP project is based on previous R&D work of part of the consortium, focused on the development of an ice-repellent coating comprising nano-additives incorporated in a standard aerospace clear coat. The coating system showed an outstanding combination of ice-repellency and durability (TRL 3-4) which will need further development and testing in order to be suitable for the aerospace market.