Miniature electrospinning system for in-situ coating application by drone

Informations projet

Nanofix

N° de convention de subvention: 101034857

DOI

10.3030/101034857

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 10 Mars 2021

Date de début 1 Avril 2021

Date de fin 31 Mars 2022

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Coût total

Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE

€ 100 000,00

Coordonné par

LINARI ENGINEERING SRL
Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Nanofix (Miniature electrospinning system for in-situ coating application by drone)

Période du rapport: 2021-04-01 au 2022-03-31

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

Nanofix project aim to reduce the dangerous effect of corrosion and overload generated from weather phenomena like snow, ice and rain or chemicals from industrial exhaust gas on outdoor metallic elements like electric aerial cables, pipes and metallic frames.
These outdoor infrastructures are often critical ones to provide electricity, internet access or natural gas to cities and even countries, for this reason their operational continuity and resiliency is a mandatory requirements and every advance in the field must be adopted.
With Nanofix technology will be demonstrated the possibility to protect metallic critical cables and pipes using a small flying drone equipped with an innovative, miniature electrospinning apparatus to apply a thin, micrometric layer of polymeric nanofibers able to prevent corrosion and mechanical overload limiting the adhesion of water, snow, ice and corrosive particles/liquid with a proper selection of applied polymer and nanofiber morphology.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

A special electrospinning miniature system able to be operated from remote as flying drone payload will be designed and built to operate in a controlled space for live demo sessions.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

Use of electrospinning technology, thanks to strong electric field, prevent aerosol formation and nanomaterial dispersion during the process, reducing environmental impact of Nanofix coating application. Very low quantity of materials used for the nano coating (in the order of grams per km) is an other key feature of Nanofix process.
During this project a prototype of flying drones with miniature electrospinning system will be shown to potential customers in live demo sessions to promote the commercial adoption and to search industrial partners for large scale applications.

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