Perseus Materials is reinventing composites manufacturing as it is currently known. Perseus Materials wants to build bigger, faster, anywhere. They are developing and applying a proprietary composite fabrication processes to the manufacturing of oversize load-bearing structures for buildings, bridges, wind turbines, and other applications in infrastructure and energy.
They will bring to market a new additive manufacturing (AM) method for rapid, onsite fabrication on wind turbine blades and other very large items that cannot be achieved with current AM materials and methods. And they want to do so in a way that makes the new blades or whatever is being fabricated recyclable.
They will automate and do it with higher throughput. The first main goal is to get to 10,000 kilograms of material an hour.
They have $1.5 million in non-dilutive funding, including the investment through Launch Tennessee and participation in Innovation Crossroads.
Perseus Materials (Knoxville, TN) will develop a new mode of composite manufacturing for wind turbine blades that could rapidly replace the dominant blade manufacturing process. Perseus’ additive manufacturing method could significantly reduce labor costs, cycle times, and factory footprints for blade manufacturers at the same output levels. (ARPA-E Award amount: $498,767)
Perseus Materials, Inc. — Variable Cross-sectional Casting: New Composite Fabrication Process for Wind Turbine Blades
Funding will support the project team’s small-scale research and development of a new composite manufacturing process for wind turbine blades
that could replace vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding as the dominant blade manufacturing process. Specifically, the project team will (1)
develop a variable cross-sectional casting fabrication method (2) optimize resin chemistry, (3) process test casts, (4) test and verify strength and
viability of test cast models, and (5) apply the process to create model turbine blade molds. If successful, this project would result in a wind
turbine blade manufacturing method that could reduce labor costs, cycle times, and factory footprints for blade manufacturers. ($498,767)
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