Additive manufacturing of indoor power generating devices (Phase I)

室内发电装置增材制造（一期）

• 批准号: 561742-2021
• 负责人: Welch, Gregory
• 金额: $ 9.11万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=724416
• 关键词: Additive; manufacturing; indoor; power; generating

The Functional Materials and Advanced Coatings Laboratory at the University of Calgary run by Professor Gregory Welch (Department of Chemistry) has developed a new materials system and processing platform to deliver flexible, lightweight, and semitransparent photovoltaic (PV) cells. The PV cells are constructed from organic materials and dyes derived from petrochemicals and are fabricated using roll-to-roll printing methods rendering the devices ultra low-cost (cents per watt) and allowing for localized manufacturing here in Alberta. Working with Innovate Calgary the technology is protected by 3 issued patents and 2 provisional patents. First point of use is for indoor light recycling where the PV cells are integrated with IoT sensors to use LED light emission to power the sensors - this is an emerging billion dollar industry and we aim to be the first SME in Canada producing PV cells for this application. Canadian partners can include the NRC, Institute for Printing and Graphics Communication, and Brilliant Matters. Technology is at TRL4 with fully printed PV prototypes developed and evaluated for performance and stability in a laboratory setting. Funding is requested to fund HQP to scale this technology (materials and cells) for circuit integration and on-site testing and further increase PV performance. Success of this project will lead to a HQP lead start-up company with commercial products expected within 3-years. Two HQP will be directly trained. Long-term objectives with continued investment and revenue will involve using our proprietary methods to develop solar PV windows for greenhouseapplications and rollable PV sheets for remote power generation.

卡尔加里大学功能材料和先进涂层实验室由 Gregory Welch 教授（化学系）负责管理，开发了一种新材料系统和加工平台，可提供柔性、轻质和半透明的光伏 (PV) 电池。光伏电池由源自石化产品的有机材料和染料制成，并使用卷对卷印刷方法制造，使设备成本超低（美分/瓦），并允许在艾伯塔省进行本地化制造。与 Innovate Calgary 合作，该技术受到 3 项已发布专利和 2 项临时专利的保护。第一个用途是室内光回收，其中光伏电池与物联网传感器集成，使用 LED 光发射为传感器供电 - 这是一个价值数十亿美元的新兴产业，我们的目标是成为加拿大第一家为此生产光伏电池的中小企业应用。加拿大合作伙伴包括 NRC、印刷与图形通信研究所和 Brilliant Matters。 TRL4 的技术采用完全打印的光伏原型，并在实验室环境中开发和评估其性能和稳定性。要求为总部提供资金，以扩展该技术（材料和电池）以进行电路集成和现场测试，并进一步提高光伏性能。该项目的成功将导致总部领先的初创公司在三年内推出商业产品。两名总部将接受直接培训。持续投资和收入的长期目标将涉及使用我们的专有方法开发用于温室应用的太阳能光伏窗和用于远程发电的可卷曲光伏板。