Lightweight Innovative Battery Enclosures using Recycled Aluminium TEchnologies (LIBERATE)

创新和突破性的高强度铝合金和加工技术已被开发用于轻型耐碰撞电池外壳，并将此类结构集成到超低排放车辆（ULEV）中。挤压件、HFQ片材和铸件的组合可以形成保护结构，并且可以提供新颖的热管理系统，该热管理系统可以将电池工作温度控制到精确的水平，从而降低热失控的风险并优化驾驶期间的电池组工作温度以减少能量损失。这在制造和组装成本/设置时间方面提供了显著的优势，同时满足当前的立法要求，为定义安全、碰撞管理和能源效率的新标准提供了机会。通过使用铝合金密集型架构，结合创新设计和先进制造工艺，降低电池外壳重量，提高电池系统的能量和功率密度。该项目旨在通过颠覆性的高强度铝合金及其加工和连接技术迈出又一重要步伐，为英国市场的新一代轻型混合动力和电动汽车的车辆集成结构和电池外壳的制造提供新的外壳设计概念，这将对英国政府的英国车队碳减排目标产生重大影响。该项目将设计、开发一种可回收的铝密集型组件，用于测试外壳和作为项目合作伙伴的两大全球OEM指定的车辆电池外壳的全尺寸演示。长远的目标是在英国建立一个制造工厂，生产世界领先的高性价比铝电池外壳，并大量使用完全可回收的铝合金，为ULEV组件制造提供陆上资源。

Innovative and ground breaking high strength aluminium alloys and processing technologies have been developed for use in light weight crash resistant battery enclosures and for the integration of such structures into ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEVs). The combination of extrusions, HFQ sheet and castings can form both the protective structures and can provide novel thermal management systems which can control battery operating temperatures to precise levels reducing the risk of thermal runaway and optimising battery pack operating temperatures during driving to reduce energy losses. This provides significant advantages in manufacturing and assembly costs/set up time whilst meeting current legislative requirements, providing the opportunity to define new standards of safety, crash management and energy efficiency. Both energy and power density of battery systems are increased by reducing battery enclosure weight by using an aluminium alloy intensive architecture, combining innovative design and advanced manufacturing processes. The project aims to take another major step with disruptive high strength aluminium alloys and their processing and joining technologies, enabling new enclosure design concepts for the manufacture of both vehicle integration structures and battery enclosures for a new generation of lightweight hybrid and electric vehicles for the UK market that will have a major impact on the UK government's carbon reduction targets for the UK vehicle fleet. The project will design, develop a recyclable aluminium intensive components for a test enclosure and for full scale demonstrators of battery enclosure for vehicles specified by the two major global OEM's that are project partners. The longer term intention is to establish a UK based manufacturing facility for world leading cost efficient aluminium battery enclosures based on the intensive use of fully recyclable aluminium alloys in order to provide an on-shore resource for ULEV component manufacture.