EU REGULATORY ROUND UP –EU-FUNDED RESEARCH DEVELOPS COATINGS FOR WIND POWER AND ANTI-FOULING
February 8th, 2015
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is developing new water-repelling coatings and application processes for Europe’s expanding wind power sector. The Euro EUR4.2 million HYDROBOND project has created metal and ceramic-based coatings applied by cold gas blasting process, which propels nano-scale powder particles onto a surface at three times the speed of sound, compressing and strengthening the resulting coating. They will be light and durable said researcher José María Guilemany, at the University of Barcelona, Spain: “We estimate it could be ...
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