Miniature electrospinning system for in-situ coating application by drone

Informazioni relative al progetto

Nanofix

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101034857

DOI

10.3030/101034857

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 10 Marzo 2021

Data di avvio 1 Aprile 2021

Data di completamento 31 Marzo 2022

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Costo totale

Nessun dato

Contributo UE

€ 100 000,00

Coordinato da

LINARI ENGINEERING SRL
Italy

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

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-04-01 al 2022-03-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

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.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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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