Pilot plant to produce advanced nanomaterials for wear resistant coatings
A pilot plant designed to produce advanced nanomaterials for use in the automotive, mining and energy industries is to be built as part of a European project.
The powders have an ultrafine crystalline structure, meaning they could be used to build products with enhanced strength, reduced weight or improved resistance to wear, corrosion, heat or fire.
The plant is being built as part of the EU-funded PilotManu project, which is being led by Italian materials company MBN Nanomaterialia and also includes the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI).
The €5.3m project is aiming to scale-up the use of a new type of high-energy ball-milling process, developed by MBN Nanomaterialia, which is capable of producing the customised powders, according to Dr Charanjeet Singh, innovation manager at CPI.
“The idea is to tune the composition of the powder to meet the requirements of different applications,” he said.
High-energy ball-milling is a process in which powders are fed into a device and subject to high-impact collisions with balls. This grinds down the powder to produce evenly distributed, nanometre-sized particles.
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