Bicester-based advanced surface coating technology company, Hardide Coatings and Cranfield University have been awarded grant funding of c£170,000 from the prestigious Henry Royce Institute’s Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) to develop new applications for Hardide tungsten carbide-based coatings in the emerging hydrogen energy sector.
The project will involve extensive testing of several Hardide coating variants, using the R&D and analytical facilities of Cranfield University and the Henry Royce Institute to evaluate feasibility of the new coating in hydrogen applications and to produce the data necessary for their commercialisation.
The Henry Royce Institute (HRI) is the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research and innovation, formed in 2015 with an initial £235 million government investment to accelerate the invention and take-up of new materials. In 2021, HRI prepared a report ‘Materials for End-to-End Hydrogen’ describing the main challenges in the production, storage, transportation and use of hydrogen. The Hardide Coatings project, which will take up to five months to complete, will address some of these challenges.
Cranfield University is a British postgraduate public research university specialising in science, engineering, design, technology and management, with particular focus on the aerospace and advanced materials.
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