Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings - SPECIFIC

在英国，有超过40亿平方米的屋顶和立面形成了建筑物的外壳。其中大部分可能用于收集太阳能，但它只占英国土地面积的1.8%。SPECIFIC的共同愿景是开发负担得起的大面积太阳能集热器，这些集热器可以取代标准屋顶，到2020年产生英国目标可再生能源总量的三分之一以上（10.8 GW峰值和19 TWh），每年减少600万吨二氧化碳排放。到2020年，年产量将达到2000万平方米，相当于不到可用屋顶和墙壁面积的0.5%。SPECIFIC将通过在金属和玻璃上快速开发实用的功能性涂层材料来实现这一目标，这些材料可以由工业大批量生产，以在使用点生产，储存和释放能量。这些产品将适合安装在新的和现有的建筑物，这是很重要的，因为50%的英国目前的二氧化碳排放量来自建筑环境。SPECIFIC的重点将是加速知识产权的商业化，知识和专业知识之间的大学合作伙伴（斯旺西、ICL、巴斯、Glyndwr和班戈尔）和英国的工业在太阳能发电（光化学）、热发电（太阳能热）和储存/控制释放三个关键领域。通过在金属和玻璃表面上涂覆功能性涂层，可以实现功能性的结合。这一成功的关键是钢铁巨头Corus/Tata和玻璃制造商Pilkington的积极参与。这两种材料在建筑材料的饰面中占主导地位，并且是可以进行工程设计的表面。此外，主要的化学公司（巴斯夫和阿克苏诺贝尔作为两个例子）和专业供应商的新兴光伏行业（如染料）参与该项目，使其既有学术深度和工业相关性。为了最大限度地发挥开放式创新的作用，来自行业的同事将以特定的方式工作，有些是永久性的，有些是兼职的。SPECIFIC技术专家也将借调到合作伙伴大学和行业的研究和开发设施。SPECIFIC将联合收割机结合在斯旺西三个蓬勃发展的研究小组与约3.9米的设备军械库到一个共享设施。威尔士议会政府还向SPECIFIC提供了120万美元的设备赠款。这将用于建立一个专用的模块化辊对辊涂层设施，具有各种涂层和固化功能，可用于在工业化前规模扩大和试验成功的技术。该设施将由三名从工业界借调的经验丰富的生产线技术人员运行和操作。模块化镀膜生产线与Glyndwr的设备相辅相成，用于扩大导电氧化物沉积，CPi用于阻隔膜开发，Pilkington用于连续将材料应用于浮法玻璃，使该集团在功能性镀膜方面具有无与伦比的能力。SPECIFIC是一个独特的商业机会，弥合了技术差距，提供负担得起的新型宏观规模微型发电，为英国可再生能源目标做出了重大贡献，并为发展中国家的离网电力创造了新的出口机会。它最终将在绿色制造业中创造数千个高科技工作岗位，创建一个可持续的功能性涂料卓越国际中心，为下一代制造业开发多部门应用。

In the UK there are more than four billion square metres of roofs and facades forming the building envelope. Most of this could potentially be used for harvesting solar energy and yet it covers less than 1.8 % of the UK land area. The shared vision for SPECIFIC is develop affordable large area solar collectors which can replace standard roofs and generate over one third of the UK's total target renewable energy by 2020 (10.8 GW peak and 19 TWh) reducing CO2 output by 6 million tonnes per year. This will be achieved with an annual production of 20 million m2 by 2020 equating to less than 0.5% of the available roof and wall area. SPECIFIC will realise this by quickly developing practical functional coated materials on metals and glass that can be manufactured by industry in large volumes to produce, store and release energy at point of use. These products will be suitable for fitting on both new and existing buildings which is important since 50% of the UKs current CO2 emissions come from the built environment.The key focus for SPECIFIC will be to accelerate the commercialisation of IP, knowledge and expertise held between the University partners (Swansea, ICL, Bath, Glyndwr, and Bangor) and UK based industry in three key areas of electricity generation from solar energy (photovoltaics), heat generation (solar thermal) and storage/controlled release. The combination of functionality will be achieved through applying functional coatings to metal and glass surfaces. Critical to this success is the active involvement in the Centre of the steel giant Corus/Tata and the glass manufacturer Pilkington. These two materials dominate the facings of the building stock and are surfaces which can be engineered. In addition major chemical companies (BASF and Akzo Nobel as two examples) and specialist suppliers to the emerging PV industry (e.g. Dyesol) are involved in the project giving it both academic depth and industrial relevance. To maximise open innovation colleagues from industry will be based SPECIFIC some permanently and some part time. SPECIFIC Technologists will also have secondments to partner University and Industry research and development facilities.SPECIFIC will combine three thriving research groups at Swansea with an equipment armoury of some 3.9m into one shared facility. SPECIFIC has also been supported with an equipment grant of 1.2 million from the Welsh Assembly Government. This will be used to build a dedicated modular roll to roll coating facility with a variety of coating and curing functions which can be used to scale up and trial successful technology at the pre-industrial scale. This facility will be run and operated by three experienced line technicians on secondment from industry. The modular coating line compliments equipment at Glyndwr for scaling up conducting oxide deposition, at CPi for barrier film development and at Pilkington for continuous application of materials to float glass giving the grouping unrivalled capability in functional coating. SPECIFIC is a unique business opportunity bridging a technology gap, delivering affordable novel macro-scale micro-generation, making a major contribution to UK renewable energy targets and creating a new export opportunity for off grid power in the developing world. It will ultimately generate thousands high technology jobs within a green manufacturing sector, creating a sustainable international centre of excellence in functional coatings where multi-sector applications are developed for next generation manufacturing.