Novel Embedded Sensing Technology for Smart Tubes and Connectors

适用于智能管和连接器的新型嵌入式传感技术

• 批准号: 79380
• 金额: $ 19.54万
• 依托单位: TRIBOSONICS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=79380
• 关键词: Novel; Embedded; Sensing; Technology; Smart

Tribosonics is an innovation led company located and forged in Sheffield, United Kingdom. It drives transformation by using its unique ultrasonic sensing technologies to address challenges in tribological contacts (wear, friction and lubrication). Using its unique Technology Stack, it provides data of unmatched information density at an embedded component level, with core measurement competencies in stress, lubricant film thickness, wear, fluid properties, contact pressure and non-destructive testing. Tribosonics have developed novel ultrasonic and other measurement technology for measuring seals in industrial applications, which can be applied to the automotive industry.The Project's aim is to introduce an innovative emission control system to materially improve the environmental efficacy of automotive engines.The automotive sector has been dramatically impacted by Covid-19\. The automotive sector in the UK generates more than £100 billion per year in trade. Current forecasts predict £33.5 billion in production losses due to Covid-19\. As of 01/06/2020 it is estimated that the production loss in Europe is 2,446,344 vehicles. Global passenger vehicle demand is expected to drop 20% in 2020, and Volkswagen announced losses of US$2.2 billon per week of shutdown.Much governmental support, aimed at stimulating the economic recovery, is tied to environmental sustainability: making existing vehicles less polluting, and accelerating the move to new vehicles that are inherently less polluting. The World Economic Forum (WEC) identifies regulatory change in the car sector as a key driver to help companies innovate and recover after the COVID-19 crisis. WEC also expects that the Covid-19 outbreak will accelerate industry consolidation and transformation. Worldwide, Europe has the most ambitious targets for reducing CO2 emissions with 95 g CO2/km in 2020/2021, again reduced by 15 % in 2025 and by 37,5 % by 2030\.In the face of the challenge of Covid-19 there is a real danger that without a significant number of innovations (this project being one of them) then these ambitious targets will have to be relaxed. This will result in a negative impact on environmental sustainability. This project will help solve these challenges: enabling a reduction in the pollution of combustion engines, and accelerating the development and deployment of hybrid electric/electric vehicles. This will be achieved through embedding Tribosonics' technology in engine components to make 'smart components' that will address and enable the reduction of emissions to meet the requirements of regulatory changes brought in to achieve the above goals.

Tribosonics是一家以创新为主导的公司，位于英国谢菲尔德。它通过使用其独特的超声波传感技术来应对摩擦接触（磨损、摩擦和润滑）方面的挑战，从而推动转型。利用其独特的技术堆栈，它提供嵌入式组件级无与伦比的信息密度数据，在应力、润滑油膜厚度、磨损、流体特性、接触压力和无损检测方面具有核心测量能力。Tribosonics开发了用于测量工业应用中密封件的新型超声波和其他测量技术，可应用于汽车行业。该项目的目的是引入创新的排放控制系统，以大幅提高汽车发动机的环境效率。汽车行业受到新冠肺炎的巨大影响。英国汽车行业每年产生超过1000亿英镑的贸易额。目前的预测预计，COVID-19将导致335亿英镑的生产损失。截至2020年6月1日，估计欧洲的产量损失为2，446，344辆。预计2020年全球乘用车需求将下降20%，大众汽车宣布每周停产损失22亿美元。旨在刺激经济复苏的许多政府支持与环境可持续性有关：减少现有车辆的污染，并加速向污染更少的新车转移。世界经济论坛（WEC）认为，汽车行业的监管变革是帮助企业在COVID-19危机后创新和复苏的关键驱动力。WEC还预计，COVID-19疫情将加速行业整合和转型。在全球范围内，欧洲在2020/2021年减少二氧化碳排放量方面的目标最为雄心勃勃，达到95克二氧化碳/公里，2025年再次减少15%，2025年减少37%，到2030年增长5%。面对新冠肺炎的挑战，如果没有大量的创新，（这个项目是其中之一）那么这些雄心勃勃的目标就必须放宽。这将对环境可持续性产生负面影响。该项目将有助于解决这些挑战：减少内燃机的污染，加速混合动力电动汽车的开发和部署。这将通过将Tribosonics的技术嵌入发动机部件中来实现，以制造“智能部件”，这些部件将解决并减少排放，以满足为实现上述目标而带来的法规变化的要求。