PFI-TT: Three Dimensional (3D) Printing of Ceramic Components with Hierarchical and Interconnected Pore Structures for Carbon Capture Applications

PFI-TT：三维 (3D) 打印具有分层和互连孔隙结构的陶瓷组件，用于碳捕获应用

• 批准号: 2214016
• 负责人: Zhijian Pei
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Three; Dimensional; 3D

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is to address global warming and climate change by reducing the operational costs of carbon capture technologies. If successful, this project will enable manufacturing of innovative ceramic monolithic adsorbents, the key components in carbon capture technologies. The new adsorbents may require less energy for regeneration and adsorption than existing amines-based absorbents. The project seeks to generate the scientific and technological knowledge necessary for producing the adsorbents through three dimensional (3D) printing. The wide-spread adoption of carbon capture technologies may help alleviate global warming and climate change, as well as save lives and economic losses from extreme weather events. Furthermore, the fast-growing carbon market will create new jobs in the U.S. Through this project’s educational and leadership development program, the graduate students will gain a solid understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship and sharpen their research, project management, and leadership skills. The undergraduate students will strengthen their critical thinking and problem-solving abilities and gain a basic understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The involvement of students from underrepresented groups will increase the diversity of the future STEM workforce.The proposed project aims to develop the entire 3D printing process for producing ceramic components with hierarchical and interconnected pore structures that can be used as adsorbents for carbon capture applications. It is very difficult and costly to produce such ceramic components using existing manufacturing methods. The proposed project utilizes binder jetting three dimensional (3D) printing with granulated powders. The novelty of the proposed adsorbents is that they contain interconnected pores with a quadrimodal size distribution. The research objectives are: (1) to develop the feedstock powder preparation process, (2) to identify a compatible binder for the feedstock powder, and (3) to develop the binder jetting 3D printing process.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这种创新合作伙伴关系的广播公司影响/商业潜力 - 技术翻译（PFI -TT）项目是通过降低碳捕获技术的运营成本来解决全球变暖和气候变化。如果成功，该项目将能够制造创新的陶瓷整体吸附剂，这是碳捕获技术的关键组成部分。与现有的基于胺的吸收相比，新的吸附剂可能需要更少的能量才能再生和吸附。该项目旨在生成通过三个维度（3D）打印产生吸附剂所必需的科学和技术知识。广泛采用碳捕获技术可能有助于减轻全球变暖和气候变化，并从极端天气事件中节省生命和经济损失。此外，快速增长的碳市场将通过该项目的教育和领导力发展计划在美国创造新的就业机会，研究生将对创新和企业家精神有着深入的了解，并提高其研究，项目管理和领导能力。本科生将增强他们的批判性思维和解决问题的能力，并对创新和创业的基本理解。来自代表性不足的群体的学生的参与将增加未来的STEM劳动力的多样性。拟议的项目旨在发展拟议的吸附剂的新颖性是，他们包含具有四型大小分布的相互连接的毛孔。研究目标是：（1）开发原料粉末准备过程，（2）确定原料粉的兼容粘合剂，以及（3）以开发Binder Jetting 3D打印过程。此奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。