CN114536751A - Method for preparing formed bipolar plate by 3DP - Google Patents

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CN114536751A
CN114536751A CN202210017879.5A CN202210017879A CN114536751A CN 114536751 A CN114536751 A CN 114536751A CN 202210017879 A CN202210017879 A CN 202210017879A CN 114536751 A CN114536751 A CN 114536751A
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吴沣
李聃华
聂孟威
杨家山
郭志刚
窦英杰
文明哲
王欢欢
庞梦蝶
刘巍
卜宇
张稼祥
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Abstract

The invention provides a method for preparing a molded bipolar plate by using 3DP, and relates to the field of battery pole pieces. The method for preparing the formed bipolar plate by 3DP comprises the following steps: s1: mixing graphite powder with a particle size of 200 meshes or less with carbon black, carbon nanotubes and a coupling agent to obtain a printing substrate for later use; s2: uniformly paving a printing substrate, then coating a thermosetting adhesive on the surface of the paved printing substrate according to the size of a produced pole piece, and simultaneously heating to cure the adhesive; s3: s2 is repeated until a complete pole piece is obtained. The process of manufacturing the bipolar plate does not need a die or a jig, so that the time for manufacturing the die or the jig and the cost for manufacturing the die or the jig are saved, the efficiency for manufacturing the graphite bipolar plate is improved, and a large amount of cost is reduced.

Description

Method for preparing formed bipolar plate by 3DP
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of battery pole pieces, in particular to a method for preparing a molded bipolar plate by using 3 DP.
Background
At present, the bipolar plates used in flow batteries and fuel cells are totally three types, namely graphite bipolar plates, metal bipolar plates and composite graphite bipolar plates. The graphite bipolar plate has low density, good corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity, and can meet the requirement of long-term stable operation of the flow battery and the fuel battery, so that most of manufacturers of the flow battery and the fuel battery use the graphite bipolar plate.
The current processing methods of the graphite bipolar plate are roughly divided into three types: mixing graphite powder and resin, performing mixed hot-press molding in a die, performing flexible graphite punch molding, and placing a molded graphite plate on an engraving machine to engrave a runner. The three methods can manufacture qualified graphite bipolar plates, but have certain defects, the two methods of hot press forming and punch forming need to use a die, and the whole die is scrapped due to redesign of a little small appearance size of the bipolar plate in the development process, so that the development cost is greatly improved, and the die period is long, so that the development progress is influenced. Specific tooling is needed for processing the graphite bipolar plate by the engraving machine, once the size of the graphite bipolar plate is changed in the development process, the tooling can be scrapped, the tooling is required to be reworked, the labor and the time are wasted, the development cost is increased, and the development period is prolonged. Meanwhile, the common defects of the three methods are that a coolant flow channel cannot be processed, and the bipolar plate cannot be formed at one time. The method of assembling and bonding two single plates is required to manufacture the bipolar plate with the inner flow channel, but the requirement for bonding technology development is increased invisibly. Therefore, the temperature change range of the flow battery and the fuel battery, the pressure resistance of the water flow channel and the like are limited.
Disclosure of Invention
Technical problem to be solved
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a method for preparing a formed bipolar plate by 3DP, which solves the defects in hot press forming, punch forming and engraving forming.
(II) technical scheme
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a method of making a shaped bipolar plate by 3DP comprising the steps of:
s1: mixing graphite powder with a particle size of 200 meshes or less with carbon black, carbon nanotubes and a coupling agent to obtain a printing substrate for later use;
s2: uniformly paving a printing substrate, then coating a thermosetting adhesive on the surface of the paved printing substrate according to the size of a produced pole piece, and simultaneously heating to cure the adhesive;
s3: s2 is repeated until a complete pole piece is obtained.
Preferably, the coupling agent is organic silicon or carbonate.
Preferably, the adhesive comprises the following components in parts by weight: 1-10 parts of epoxy resin, 1-10 parts of phenolic resin and 1-10 parts of vinyl epoxy resin.
Preferably, the heating temperature in S2 is 120-220 ℃.
The printing device provided by the method for preparing the formed bipolar plate by 3DP comprises a powder cabin and a forming cabin which are arranged side by side, wherein a liftable powder platform is arranged inside the powder cabin, a liftable forming platform is arranged inside the forming cabin, scrapers which move linearly are arranged at the upper ends of the powder cabin and the forming cabin, and an injection head with three linear motion degrees of freedom is arranged above the forming platform.
Preferably, the printing device further comprises a liquid storage barrel, a conveying pipe is fixedly connected to the upper end of the liquid storage barrel, and the other end of the conveying pipe is connected with the injection head.
Preferably, the inside of the forming chamber is provided with an electric heating device.
(III) advantageous effects
The invention provides a method for preparing a molded bipolar plate by 3 DP. The method has the following beneficial effects:
1. according to the invention, a die and a jig are not needed in the process of manufacturing the bipolar plate, so that the time for manufacturing the die or the jig and the cost for manufacturing the die or the jig are saved, the efficiency for manufacturing the graphite bipolar plate is improved, and a large amount of cost is reduced.
2. Based on the advantages of 3D printing, the invention can manufacture the inner flow channel in the production of the polar plate, and can be formed at one time, thereby saving the cost for bonding and greatly improving the efficiency.
3. According to the invention, the high-precision 3D printing equipment is adopted, so that the precision of the processing flow channel can be improved and higher, and the problem of processing tolerance of the traditional process is avoided.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic side view of a printer according to the present invention.
Wherein, 1, a powder cabin; 2. a scraper; 3. a powder platform; 4. a molding cabin; 5. a forming platform; 6. a liquid storage barrel; 7. a delivery pipe; 8. an ejection head.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Example (b):
the embodiment of the invention provides a method for preparing a formed bipolar plate by 3DP, which comprises the following steps:
s1: mixing graphite powder of 200 meshes or less with carbon black, carbon nanotubes and a coupling agent to obtain a printing substrate for later use, wherein the particle diameters of the carbon black, the carbon nanotubes and the coupling agent are less than or equal to the particle diameter of the graphite powder to ensure the uniformity of the printing substrate, the coupling agent adopts organic silicon or carbonic ester, and the coupling agent is adopted to modify materials so that the printing substrate is not agglomerated, namely the printing substrate can be uniformly paved into a thin layer of 0.02-0.3 mm;
s2: uniformly paving a printing substrate, and then coating a thermosetting adhesive on the surface of the paved printing substrate according to the size of a produced pole piece, wherein the adhesive comprises the following components in parts by weight: 1-10 parts of epoxy resin, 1-10 parts of phenolic resin and 1-10 parts of vinyl epoxy resin, and heating to cure the adhesive at the temperature of 120-220 ℃;
s3: s2 is repeated until a complete pole piece is obtained.
As shown in fig. 1, the printing device provided by the method for preparing the molded bipolar plate by 3DP comprises a powder cabin 1 and a molding cabin 4 which are arranged side by side, wherein the powder cabin 1 is used for storing a printing substrate, a liftable powder platform 3 is arranged inside the powder cabin 1, the printing substrate is arranged at the upper end of the powder platform 3, along with the rising of the powder platform 3, the printing substrate is lifted, a liftable molding platform 5 is arranged inside the molding cabin 4, the printing substrate is laid on the molding platform 5, before each layer is laid, the molding platform 5 descends once, and the distance is the thickness of the laid layer.
The upper ends of the powder cabin 1 and the forming cabin 4 are provided with the scrapers 2 which move linearly, the scrapers 2 act to scrape the printing substrate from the powder platform 3 to the forming platform 5, transfer is achieved, and in the movement process of the scrapers 2, the laying uniformity needs to be controlled.
The top of shaping platform 5 sets up the shower nozzle 8 that has three rectilinear motion degree of freedom, and shower nozzle 8 is used for spouting the adhesive, and three rectilinear motion degree of freedom makes shower nozzle 8 have the ability of drawing the figure on shaping platform 5, and the one rectilinear motion degree of freedom realizes that shower nozzle 8 lifts simultaneously, avoids shower nozzle 8 and scraper 2 to crash.
The interior of the molding cabin 4 is provided with an electric heating device for heating and curing the molding platform 5, and the electric heating device preferably selects an electric heating wire, an electric heating plate and the like to realize curing of the adhesive.
Printing device still includes stock solution bucket 6, and stock solution bucket 6 is used for saving the adhesive, and the upper end fixedly connected with conveyer pipe 7 of stock solution bucket 6, and the inside of stock solution bucket 6 still is provided with the water pump to conveyer pipe 7 extends to the inside of stock solution bucket 6 and is connected with the output of water pump, and the other end and the injector head 8 of conveyer pipe 7 are connected, and the water pump work is pumped the adhesive from injector head 8 department.
The components of the middle component related to linear motion adopt linear driving components, such as a hydraulic telescopic cylinder, a pneumatic telescopic cylinder, a gear and rack transmission structure, a screw rod motion pair and the like, a plurality of linear motions are arranged, the linear driving components can be superposed in different directions, and the linear motion of multiple degrees of freedom of the components is realized.
The working principle is as follows: when the printing machine is used, a printing substrate is placed on the powder platform 3, an adhesive is stored in the liquid storage barrel 6, the powder platform 3 ascends and is 0.1mm high, the scraper 2 acts to hang the exposed printing substrate on the forming platform 5 to uniformly lay a layer, the scraper 2 resets, the spray head 8 acts to coat the adhesive on the laid printing substrate, the electric heating device is electrified to generate heat to cure the adhesive, the forming platform 5 descends after the spray head 8 finishes the work, the powder platform 3 ascends, and the scraper 2 works … … until the pole piece is successfully produced.
Meanwhile, the precision of the printing equipment is set, and the precision of pole piece printing can be improved.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. A method of making a formed bipolar plate by 3DP, comprising the steps of:
s1: mixing graphite powder with a particle size of 200 meshes or less with carbon black, carbon nanotubes and a coupling agent to obtain a printing substrate for later use;
s2: uniformly paving a printing substrate, then coating a thermosetting adhesive on the surface of the paved printing substrate according to the size of a produced pole piece, and simultaneously heating to cure the adhesive;
s3: s2 is repeated until a complete pole piece is obtained.
2. A method of 3DP forming a bipolar plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the coupling agent adopts organic silicon or carbonic ester.
3. A method of 3DP forming a bipolar plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the adhesive comprises the following components in parts by weight: 1-10 parts of epoxy resin, 1-10 parts of phenolic resin and 1-10 parts of vinyl epoxy resin.
4. A method of 3DP forming a bipolar plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the temperature of heating in the S2 is 120-220 ℃.
5. The printing device provided by the method for preparing the formed bipolar plate by 3DP according to any one of claims 1 to 4, comprising a powder cabin (1) and a forming cabin (4) which are arranged side by side, wherein a liftable powder platform (3) is arranged inside the powder cabin (1), a liftable forming platform (5) is arranged inside the forming cabin (4), the upper ends of the powder cabin (1) and the forming cabin (4) are provided with a scraper (2) which moves linearly, and an injector head (8) with three linear motion degrees of freedom is arranged above the forming platform (5).
6. The printing apparatus of claim 5, wherein: printing device still includes stock solution bucket (6), the upper end fixedly connected with conveyer pipe (7) of stock solution bucket (6), the other end and the injector head (8) of conveyer pipe (7) are connected.
7. The printing apparatus of claim 5, wherein: an electric heating device is arranged in the forming cabin (4).
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CN102844926A (en) * 2010-04-16 2012-12-26 住友电气工业株式会社 Bipolar plate for redox flow battery
CN104552938A (en) * 2013-10-27 2015-04-29 西安中科麦特电子技术设备有限公司 Quick 3D printing and molding device
CN108290795A (en) * 2015-11-24 2018-07-17 西格里碳素欧洲公司 Include the plastic components of carbon filler
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