Advanced ceramics across the energy sector, from production to storage, for both fossil fuels and renewable energies. The required properties are very diverse:
Mechanical strength, resistance to abrasion and wear
Electrical insulation
Barrier to radioactive radiation
Ionic and protonic conductivity.
Applications / Constraints
- Tools and sensors for oil exploration and prospection
- Bearings for coolant pumps at nuclear power plants, anti-radiation barriers, storage of high-level waste
- Electrical bearings and insulators for wind and tidal turbines
- Solid electrolytes for fuel cells
- Membranes for electrochemical reactors: electricity conversion and storage of liquid hydrogen, production of synthetic fuels
- Insulators and electrical connectors for electricity transmission networks
- Components for solar concentrators
- Ceramic cores for gas turbine blades
- Spark plugs for domestic and industrial burners
- Feedthrough for nuclear reactors
- Neutron detectors
- Offshore electrical connectors (resistance to high pressure, resistance to very high levels of power)
- Connectors for nuclear submarines
- Thermocouples on AG line (serious accident)
- Medium voltage feedthroughs
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