Graphene Enhanced Composite Hydrogen Tanks for Automotive (REACH-OUT)

延伸项目的重点是通过使用新材料为汽车部门提供廉价的氢气存储的挑战。该项目将结合世界领先的研究机构(先进制造研究中心(AMRC)和波音公司)和全球工业合作伙伴(海代尔复合材料解决方案有限公司(HCS))的专业知识，旨在打破在汽车行业广泛采用氢气作为运输燃料的现有障碍。需要克服的障碍包括使用昂贵的材料(碳纤维)、制造过程缓慢、疲劳和脆化问题、阻隔性能差以及缺乏具有成本效益的制造设施。REACH-OUT致力于结合使用新的材料解决方案来应对这些挑战，包括提供卓越性能的纳米材料增强型预浸料，以及将减少制造时间(和成本)的最先进的制造工艺。利用HCS和AMRC开发的技术克服这些关键障碍，将有助于推动氢作为一种经济上有吸引力和技术上可行的能源载体的广泛引入；通过在可在全球范围内利用的供应链内建立新材料和制造技术，为明确的可开发的商业机会奠定基础。

The REACH-OUT project is focussed on the challenges of delivering inexpensive hydrogen storage, through utilising novel materials, for the automotive sector. The project will combine the expertise of the world-leading research organisation (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing), with a global industrial partner (Haydale Composite Solutions Ltd (HCS)) with the aim of breaking existing barriers to widespread adoption of hydrogen as a transport fuel in the automotive sector. Barriers to overcome include the use of expensive materials (carbon fibre), slow manufacturing processes, fatigue and embrittlement problems, poor barrier properties and the lack of cost-effective manufacturing facilities. REACH-OUT aims to address these challenges using a combination of novel material solutions, including nanomaterial-enhanced prepreg which give superior performance, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes which will reduce the time (and cost) of manufacture. Overcoming these key barriers using the technologies developed by HCS and AMRC will help bring forward the widespread introduction of hydrogen as an economically attractive and technically viable energy vector; forming the basis of a clear exploitable business opportunity through the establishment of new materials and manufacturing techniques, within a supply chain that can be exploited on a global basis.