TITLE:
Open-Innovation in the Electrical and Electronic Industries: Engineered Bio-Fluid Compositions Are Paving the Way, and Testing Therewith
AUTHORS:
Serge Rebouillat, Bernard Noirhomme
KEYWORDS:
Open Innovation, Green Technology, Electrical Behavior, Transformers, Extreme Conditions, Biofluids, Engineered Biofluids, Enzymes, Esterification
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology,
Vol.9 No.2,
April
27,
2018
ABSTRACT: Engineered Biofluids are paving the way to industrialized
and specifically produced and tailored functional fluids such as coolant and dielectric,
high purity traceable media, for the electrical and electronic industries. Dielectric
fluid compositions are commonly used in electrical devices, particularly in
transformers. These liquids have the aim to isolate the various conductive
elements of the device and to limit the heating of the equipment during its
operation; in order to minimize, or maintain at higher power, the size of the
device and to increase the lifespan of it. Concomitantly
a number of bio and traditional processing advancements are made associated
with pioneering process technologies which are outlined within the prime
context of this paper. Enzyme Engineering and Cocktailing add “A New Dimension
to Softer Greener Chem-Bio Approaches” which are referenced beyond curiosity purpose.
Some of them are possibly “revolutionary” more than evolutionary. Testing
has to evolve accordingly to appreciate the challenges ahead in semi-extreme
conditions which are relevant to climate changes as well. A significant part of
this orientation work addresses and exemplifies these necessary testing
innovations, likely adaptable to smart and responsive connecting, and further
down the line bigger data role and learning machine evolutionary concepts. One other
innovative part of this exploratory work, is the influence that such
illustrative localized testing, with integrated sensors/induced-tracers, and
online interpretation, may have on the smart grid developments; whereby
production, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy can be made more
reliable, more effective and more predictive and can also have an impact on the
performance, reliability and sustainability of the equipment itself. Those
technologies and associated testing can support environmental, technological
and societal awareness; helping to revert some trends being climate changes,
fossil fuel preservation and other planetary challenges to maintain the overall
and localized fundamental equilibriums.