ALCHEMI: ALuminium Composites for High Efficiency Motor Innovation

TISICS拥有独特的高性能金属基复合材料技术，将其内部的英国碳化硅纤维增强与轻质钛和铝复合材料相结合。这些技术为空间、航空航天、运输和能源领域的高价值部件减轻了30%至70%的重量。这些部门的减重直接减少了二氧化碳排放，实现了全球净零排放目标。电动传动系统是消除化石燃料燃烧推进和相关排放的主要途径。但是，随着电机为提高范围效率和有效载荷而开发，它们必须应对更高的功率、负载和温度，从而降低性能。采用高强度、高刚度套筒包覆传统电机材料，显著提高了性能和可靠性。传统的包覆材料技术是强度、质量、壁厚和热效率之间的折衷。TISICS高性能纤维增强铝复合材料将轻质、高导热铝的最佳属性与陶瓷纤维的卓越强度、刚度和电气性能相结合，提供更轻、热效率更高的电机套筒，并为电机驱动器的吸收做出积极贡献，从而减少排放。ALCHEMI项目将在短短9个月的时间内开发和演示可行的工艺路线和早期性能数据，以确保该技术可以集成到当前的电机开发计划中，并实现快速部署。该项目建立在其他高性能应用材料的重要前期工作的基础上，通过电机套筒的早期商业化将加速金属复合材料在关键技术中的使用，这些技术的减排受到传统材料性能的限制。

TISICS has unique high performance metal matrix composite technology to combine its in-house UK silicon carbide fibre reinforcement in light weight titanium and aluminium composites. These technologies deliver 30% to 70% weight reductions in high value components for space, aerospace, transport and energy sectors. Weight reduction in these sectors leads to direct reductions in CO2 emissions delivering into global Net Zero targets.Electric drivetrains are a major route to removing fossil fuel combustion propulsion and associated emissions. But as motors are developed for increased range efficiency and payload they have to cope with higher power, loads and temperatures which compromise performance. Over-wrapping conventional motor materials with high strength and stiffness sleeves significantly enhances performance and reliability. Conventional over-wrap material technologies are a compromise between strength, mass, wall thickness and thermal efficiency.TISICS high performance fibre reinforced aluminium composite combines the best attributes fo light weight, high thermal conductivity aluminium with the exceptional strength, stiffness and electrical properties of ceramic fibre to provide lighter, thermally efficient motor sleeves and a positive contribution to uptake of motor drives and hence emission reduction.Project ALCHEMI will develop and demonstrate a viable process route and early performance data in a short 9 month programme to ensure that this technology can be integrated into current motor development programmes and enable rapid deployment.This project builds on significant prior work on the materials in other high-performance applications and early commercialisation through motor sleeves will accelerate use of metal composites in critical technologies where emissions abatement is limited by conventional material performance.