ALCHEMI: ALuminium Composites for High Efficiency Motor Innovation

TISICS拥有独特的高性能金属基复合材料技术，将联合收割机内部的英国碳化硅纤维增强材料与轻质钛和铝复合材料相结合。这些技术为航天、航空、运输和能源领域的高价值部件减轻了30%至70%的重量。这些领域的重量减轻可直接减少二氧化碳排放，实现全球净零排放目标。电动传动系统是消除化石燃料燃烧推进和相关排放的主要途径。但是，随着电动机的发展，提高了范围效率和有效载荷，他们必须科普更高的功率，负载和温度，这损害了性能。用高强度和刚度的套筒对传统电机材料进行外包装，显著提高了性能和可靠性。传统的外包装材料技术是在强度、质量、壁厚和热效率之间进行折衷。TISICS高性能纤维增强铝复合材料将重量轻、导热率高的铝的最佳属性与陶瓷纤维的卓越强度、刚度和电气性能相结合，热效率高的电机套筒，并积极促进电机驱动器的采用，从而减少排放。ALCHEMI项目将在短短9个月内开发和演示可行的工艺路线和早期性能数据该项目建立在该材料在其他高性能应用中的重要前期工作基础上，通过电机套筒的早期商业化将加速金属复合材料在关键技术中的使用，其中传统材料性能限制了减排。

TISICS has unique high performance metal matrix composite technology to combine its in-house UK silicon carbide fibre reinforcement in light weight titanium and aluminium composites. These technologies deliver 30% to 70% weight reductions in high value components for space, aerospace, transport and energy sectors. Weight reduction in these sectors leads to direct reductions in CO2 emissions delivering into global Net Zero targets.Electric drivetrains are a major route to removing fossil fuel combustion propulsion and associated emissions. But as motors are developed for increased range efficiency and payload they have to cope with higher power, loads and temperatures which compromise performance. Over-wrapping conventional motor materials with high strength and stiffness sleeves significantly enhances performance and reliability. Conventional over-wrap material technologies are a compromise between strength, mass, wall thickness and thermal efficiency.TISICS high performance fibre reinforced aluminium composite combines the best attributes fo light weight, high thermal conductivity aluminium with the exceptional strength, stiffness and electrical properties of ceramic fibre to provide lighter, thermally efficient motor sleeves and a positive contribution to uptake of motor drives and hence emission reduction.Project ALCHEMI will develop and demonstrate a viable process route and early performance data in a short 9 month programme to ensure that this technology can be integrated into current motor development programmes and enable rapid deployment.This project builds on significant prior work on the materials in other high-performance applications and early commercialisation through motor sleeves will accelerate use of metal composites in critical technologies where emissions abatement is limited by conventional material performance.