FiLAment Winding multi-nozzLE, traversing winding head for enabling production of composite high-preSSure vessels (FLAWLESS)

FLAWLESS项目旨在开发一种新的制造技术，该技术基于多喷嘴，用于纤维缠绕的穿越缠绕头，能够在显著减轻重量和生产速度的情况下生产复合高压容器。这项技术旨在满足对储氢罐快速增长的需求，作为英国实现其到2030年获得5GW低碳氢气生产能力的雄心壮志的一项使能技术。轻型储氢容器对航空特别重要——FlyZero（由航空航天技术研究所和商业、能源和工业战略部建立）得出结论，如果航空业不脱碳，它将在环境和经济上变得不可持续，而液态氢是唯一能够实现这一目标的飞机燃料。FlyZero进一步得出结论，启动氢动力飞机开发的“机会之窗”很短，如果飞机制造商决定转而开发传统动力飞机，到2025年可能会关闭。，使得这项技术的发展非常及时。**主要关注领域**将是IV型和V型复合压力容器。该技术确定的具体市场包括：用于消防和水肺潜水的呼吸罐（低风险/低影响），氢动力汽车（中等风险/中等影响）和氢动力飞机（高风险/高影响）。FLAWLESS特别强调的是用于航空航天的液氢气罐，这可能是第一次将其商业化。FLAWLESS将由曼彻斯特石墨烯创新有限公司（GIM）领导并交付，这是一家雄心勃勃的英国微型企业，致力于开发包括石墨烯材料在内的复合技术的创新加工技术和材料。

The FLAWLESS project aims to will develop a new manufacturing technique based on **multi-nozzle, traversing winding head for filament winding** enabling production of composite high-pressure vessels with significantly reduced weight and production speeds. This technology is aimed at meeting the rapidly increasing demand for hydrogen storage tanks, acting as an enabling technology for the UK to meet its ambition is to gain a 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030\. Lightweight hydrogen storage vessels are of particular importance for, aviation - FlyZero (established by the Aerospace Technology Institute and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) has concluded that aviation will become environmentally and economically unsustainable if it does not decarbonise and thar **liquid hydrogen** is the only aircraft fuel able to achieve this for **commercial air travel**. FlyZero has further concluded that "window of opportunity" for launching development of hydrogen powered aircraft is short and could be closed by 2025 if the airframers decide to develop conventionally powered aircraft instead., making the development of this technology very timely.The **main areas of focus** will be Type IV and Type V, composite pressure vessels. The specific markets identified for the technology are: Breathing tanks for firefighting and SCUBA diving (low-risk/low-impact), hydrogen powered automotive vehicles (medium-risk/medium-impact) and hydrogen powered aircraft (high-risk/high-impact).The particular emphasis in FLAWLESS is on liquid hydrogen tanks for aerospace, potentially enabling commercially of these for the first time.FLAWLESS is led and will be delivered by Graphene Innovations Manchester Ltd (GIM), an ambitious UK micro business that develops innovative processing technologies and materials for composite technologies that include graphene materials.