A collaborative initiative called 3Dstore, spearheaded by the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) alongside the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and steelmaking giant CELSA, has brought an unconventional solution to a persistent industrial challenge: unplanned machinery failures.
The consortium has engineered a monitoring system driven by a solid oxide battery fabricated through additive manufacturing, capable of detecting early warning signs of equipment malfunction in demanding factory settings.
Additional research partners, including CIC energiGUNE, a Basque center specializing in electrochemical and thermal energy storage, and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, contributed to the project’s development.
ICREA professor and IREC’s Head of Nanoionics and Fuel Cells, Albert Tarancón, framed the initiative’s broader ambition: “to monitor and digitalize strategic industries such as the steel sector.”
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