Pressure Tolerant Energy Converter for Deep Sea Applications

适用于深海应用的耐压能量转换器

• 批准号: 404971005
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Frank Kirchner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Montagetechnik und Fabrikbetrieb
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404971005?language=en
• 关键词: Pressure; Tolerant; Energy; Converter; Deep

The aim of the project is the enhancement of robustness and compactness of deep sea systems through reduction of system complexity. To reach diving levels of 500 meters or even deeper, conventional systems with pressure hulls reach their limits. An enormous effort has to be taken to grand these systems to be deep sea capable. Rising hull thicknesses of the heavy pressure hulls demand large volume lifting bodies for weight compensation. Assembly-, development- and maintenance costs explode. A size reduction of the systems is not imaginable. Within the scope of the applied project fundamental research in the field of complexity reduction through the development of pressure tolerant functional units made out of soft materials should be done. The ambient pressure will be distributed uniformly on the soft material encapsulated units, so that a pressure hull can be neglected. Regarding a deep-sea application all inherent characteristics of soft materials can be used positively. Due to the underwater prevailing buoyancy even the load-bearing structure can be made of soft material. By way of example, a fluid transport system for the deep sea is to be developed as a largely flexible functional unit. The soft material is intended to be used multifunctional as a pressure housing for the components embedded therein, as a corrosion protection, as a supporting structure and for the realization of joints. Soft energy converters should also be integrated in the soft carrier material. The use of soft material in addition to multifunctional material use allows a system development with high functional integration, which leads to an increase in robustness and compactness.

该项目的目的是通过降低系统复杂性来加强深海系统的坚固性和紧凑性。为了达到500米甚至更深的潜水水平，传统的压力船体系统达到了极限。必须付出巨大的努力才能使这些系统具备深海能力。高压船体船体厚度的增加需要大体积的升力体来进行重量补偿。组装、开发和维护成本呈爆炸式增长。系统的尺寸减小是不可想象的。在应用项目范围内，应通过开发由软材料制成的耐压功能单元来降低复杂性领域的基础研究。环境压力将均匀地分布在软材料封装单元上，因此可以忽略压力船体。关于深海应用，可以积极利用软材料的所有固有特性。由于水下主要浮力，甚至承重结构也可以由软材料制成。例如，用于深海的流体运输系统将被开发为很大程度上灵活的功能单元。该软材料旨在多功能地用作嵌入其中的部件的压力壳体、用作腐蚀保护、用作支撑结构以及用于实现接头。软能量转换器也应该集成在软载体材料中。除了多功能材料的使用之外，软材料的使用允许具有高功能集成的系统开发，这导致鲁棒性和紧凑性的增加。