Coil to Core: Supply Chain for Net Zero CO2 - COCO

该项目旨在开发一个英国PEMD供应链，将联合收割机成本效益的材料供应和冷轧的一种新的高强度无磁钢与大规模生产工艺创新，可以提供专利层压设计。这些叠片可以堆叠成新型转子和定子子组件，以支持更高效和更可持续的电机的大规模生产，广泛应用于运输，能源和工业部门。该项目将专注于开发材料供应和冷轧工艺，以成本效益的方式供应新型高强度无磁钢。将采用最新的连接技术开发将联合收割机无磁钢与电工钢结合的坯料成形和连接工艺。专利叠片的涂层将使用新型绝缘/粘合剂涂层材料，以实现新型转子和定子子组件设计的叠片堆叠自动化，支持更高效和更可持续的电机设计的大规模生产。在该项目中，材料和工艺开发将应用于独特的AEM电机设计的核心，该设计将不含稀土磁体和铜，通过原型电机高速测功机测试验证。这种电机设计目前正在由全球领先的汽车制造商和Tier 1的评估，作为大规模生产乘汽车的更可持续的电气化解决方案。该项目的核心技术可应用于其他交通、能源和工业领域，实现汽车行业的规模经济。该项目的合作伙伴为“生产就绪”的英国供应链提供了基础，并为低成本的材料供应和冷轧加工、层压制造和转子/定子子组件以及电机生产提供了明确的“端到端”市场路线。该项目将包括生产成本和价值链分析，以确保英国供应链既具有市场吸引力，又可持续盈利。

The project aims to develop a UK PEMD supply chain that will combine cost effective material supply and cold rolling of a new high strength non-magnetic steel with mass production process innovations that can deliver patented lamination designs. These laminations can then be stacked into novel rotor and stator sub-assemblies to support mass production of more efficient and more sustainable electric machines with wide-ranging application across transport, energy and industrial sectors.The project will focus on the development of material supply and cold rolling processes for cost effective supply of the new high strength non-magnetic steel. Blank forming and joining processes to combine non-magnetic steel with electrical steel will be developed using latest joining technologies. Coating of the patented laminations will use novel insulation/adhesive coating materials, to enable automation of lamination stacking for novel rotor and stator sub-assembly designs supporting mass production of more efficient and more sustainable electric machine designs.In the project the materials and process developments will be applied to the core of a unique AEM electric machine design that will be free of rare earth magnets and copper, validated with prototype motor high speed dynamometer testing. This electric machine design is currently being evaluated by leading global automakers and Tier 1's as a more sustainable electrification solution for mass produced passenger cars. Thereafter the core technologies of the project can be applied to other transport, energy and industrial sectors, providing automotive economies of scale.The partners in the project provide the basis of a 'production ready' UK supply chain with a clear 'end to end' route to market for cost effective materials supply and cold rolling processing, lamination manufacture and rotor/stator sub-assembly, and electric machine production. This project will include production costing and value chain analysis to ensure that this UK supply chain is both market attractive and sustainably profitable.