DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

grafeno, viabilidad, producción, material novedoso, alótropo del carbono, graphene, feasibility, production, new material, carbon allotrope

Article type:

AULA DYNA / DYNA CLASSROOM

Section:

COLLABORATIONS

ABSTRACT:
After the discovery of graphene, a material with properties of high technological interest, the industry seeks to optimize its production mechanisms in order to address a market which is expected to grow strongly. Graphene synthesis can be carried out by various processes, which show differences in quality of the final product. There are two groups of processes: those that are based on carbon atoms to synthesize graphene (bottom-up methods), or those that use more complex structures (top-down methods).
In the first part of this paper a review of the current state of knowledge of the properties of graphene and its possible applications was presented. In this second part, we introduce technologies for its production, in order to determine the feasibility of a plant, from the technical and economic points of view, is presented. Using a multi-criteria analysis, the method of production based on chemical vapor deposition has been selected as the most viable technology. Also, we have estimated the economic feasibility of a plant to produce about 375 m2 of monolayer graphene per year.

Keywords: graphene, feasibility, production, new material, carbon allotrope