DIAMOND HARD SURFACES LIMITED: “AMORPHOUS CARBON IN DIAMOND FORM” - DEVELOPMENT OF A FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT PROTOTYPE PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR DEPOSITION OF AN INNOVATIVE ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING COATING IN HIGH VALUE OIL AND GAS APPLICATIONS.

航空航天、赛车运动、石油勘探和其他高性能行业都需要卓越的性能和出色的可靠性。在他们对这些的追求中，结合他们对低成本和低维护的要求，他们已经在挑战现有材料和工程的极限。金刚石硬表面有限公司（DHS）已经展示了一种将碳存款到诸如机械部件、工具和发动机部件的基底上的工艺，采用创新工艺形成超高性能涂层-“金刚石形式的非晶碳”-其不仅远远超过现有的和可替代的涂层的性能并赋予基材更高的耐久性、强度和可靠性的性能，而且还提供了能够涂覆更厚和涂覆部件的额外的潜在益处，材料和几何形状，其他公司无法承担。它的性能被证明是非常有吸引力的潜在客户。国土安全部的沉积过程已发展到概念阶段的证明，并已使国土安全部证明其技术的原则;国土安全部需要开发它，使其可用于一系列基板尺寸，并可用于灵活和可定制的商业生产过程，这个SMART项目将使国土安全部能够为其涂层开发一个原型生产过程，该过程是可扩展的，完全可控的，在技术上是可以理解的，使国土安全部开发独特的技术，在一个完整的生产涂层服务，这是市场领先的，有竞争力的和成本效益的客户。这将是一个潜在的客户进行测试，为一个特定的最终用户应用完成ofproject和，一旦投入生产，预计将有可能在提高效率和减少故障和停机时间方面每年为最终用户节省120亿美元以上。

Aerospace, Motorsport, Oil Exploration and other high performance industries share acommon need for superb performance and outstanding reliability. In their quest for these,combined with their requirements of low cost and low maintenance, they are alreadychallenging the limits of existing materials and of engineering.Diamond Hard Surfaces Limited (DHS) has demonstrated a process to deposit carbon ontosubstrates such as mechanical components, tools and engine parts, in an innovative processthat forms an ultra-high performance coating – “Amorphous Carbon in Diamond Form” –which not only far exceeds the performance of existing and alternative coatings and conferson the substrates properties of higher durability, strength and reliability but also providesadditional potential benefits of being able to coat thicker and coating parts, materials andgeometries which other companies are unable to undertake. Its properties are proving to behighly attractive to potential customers.DHS’s deposition process has been developed to proof of concept stage and has enabled DHSto prove its technology in principle; DHS needs to develop it to be usable on a range ofsubstrate sizes and in a commercial production process that is flexible and customisable, torespond to requests for services.This SMART project will enable DHS to develop a prototype production process for itscoating that is scalable, fully controllable and understood technically, enabling DHS to exploitits unique technology in a full production coating service that is both market leading,competitive and cost effective for its customers.It will be tested by a potential customer for a specific end user application on completion ofthe project and, once in production is projected to have the potential to save end users over$12 billion per annum in improved efficiency and reductions breakdowns and down time.