HYDROBOND

New cost/effective superHYDROphobic coatings with enhanced BOND strengh and wear resistance for application in large wind turbine blades

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA    more  Organization address address: GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 585 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8007 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Xavier Cognome: Gutierrez Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 4035385 Fax: +34 93 4489434
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Sito del progetto	http://hydro-bond.eu/
Totale costo	4˙201˙298 €
EC contributo	2˙929˙476 €
Programma	FP7-NMP Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
Code Call	FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA  Organization address address: GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 585 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8007 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Xavier Cognome: Gutierrez Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 4035385 Fax: +34 93 4489434	ES (BARCELONA)	coordinator	652˙473.50
2	MUEHLHAN A/S  Organization address address: NYVANG 16 2ND FLOOR city: MIDDELFART postcode: 5500 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Kenneth Cognome: Holmbech Email: send email Telefono: +45 41111662	DK (MIDDELFART)	participant	542˙737.44
3	MILLIDYNE OY  Organization address address: HERMIANKATU 6 A city: TAMPERE postcode: 33720 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Knuuttila Cognome: Jari Email: send email Telefono: +358 3 3177450 Fax: +358 3 3177900	FI (TAMPERE)	participant	451˙424.00
4	TTY-SAATIO  Organization address address: Korkeakoulunkatu 10 city: TAMPERE postcode: 33720 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Jörg Cognome: Langwaldt Email: send email Telefono: 358408000000	FI (TAMPERE)	participant	437˙600.00
5	PUTZIER OBERFLACHENTECHNIK GMBH  Organization address address: JULIUS KRONENBERG STRASSE 3 city: LEICHLINGEN postcode: 42799 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Putzier Cognome: Jens Email: send email Telefono: +49 2175 8889 0 Fax: +49 2175 8889 99	DE (LEICHLINGEN)	participant	390˙000.00
6	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA  Organization address address: VIA UNIVERSITA 4 city: MODENA postcode: 41100 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Capra Cognome: Alessandro Email: send email Telefono: 390592000000 Fax: 390592000000	IT (MODENA)	participant	241˙952.00
7	GUTMAR SA  Organization address address: METALURGIA 53-55 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8908 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Joan Cognome: Mascaró Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 2234823 Fax: +34 93 289 51 94	ES (BARCELONA)	participant	191˙200.00
8	Winwind Oy  Organization address address: Keilaranta 13 city: Espoo postcode: 2150 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Koskela Cognome: Ville Email: send email Telefono: 358408000000 Fax: +358 207 410162	FI (Espoo)	participant	22˙089.07

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The main objective of HYDROBOND is the development of a highly innovative process for application of superhydrophobic coatings onto large off-shore turbine blades, that will contribute to minimize the power losses and mechanical failures. Novel thermal spray technologies will be the way to achieve the nanostructured coatings with tailored anti-icing properties and enhanced bond strengh, in a cost effective manner for very large, composite material surface. The pursued scientific-technological objectives and impacts derived from HYDROBOND project are - Based on the properties of the new coatings, that will act as a passive anti-icing method, allow the design and construction of lighter larger wind turbines, avoiding the needs of heavier active anti-icing methods. - Due to the anti-icing properties, new coatings will allow the minimization of the ice accretion and will increase the reliability and operational life of components by reducing the mechanical failures. As already stated in this proposal, ice accretion will increase the load on the blades and on the tower structure, causing high amplitude vibrations and/or resonance as well as mass imbalance between blades, affecting specially the gearboxes whose lifetime is considerably reduced. - New anti-icing coatings will improve the cost/efficiency ratio of the blades, because ice accretion changes the shape and roughness of the blade airfoil significantly reducing aerodynamic properties of the blade resulting in power losses. - Due to the enhanced bond strengh and the ability to keep the anti-icing properties even when wear phenomena happens, will contribute on reducing the maintenance needs. The new developed process, being a portable one, will also contribute to reduce the maintenance cost of off-shore wind turbines allowing in situ repair.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project is developing hydrophobic coatings that give ice and water droplets little chance of sticking to wind turbine blades. The new coatings should help reduce wind farm maintenance costs and increase turbine lifespan.