Semi-Production Yacht Modular Mould Tooling

H2Eau Projects是一家总部位于英国普利茅斯的游艇改装和设计管理公司，通过利用创新的海洋技术和最新的建造材料，专门为“升级再造”帆船游艇提供可持续的解决方案。通过“创新英国优势”和“可持续英国材料和制造”创新基金，该项目正在得到支持，以开发创新的生产模具游艇工具。该项目重点关注可持续性和技术，旨在利用再生碳纤维（rCF）与混合再生核心和生物基环氧树脂，开发一种基于可持续制造方法的超轻且结构坚固的创新复合材料基体，以支持更绿色的海洋工业。典型制造中使用的材料没有经过优化，不可回收或可持续，并且与建造的船相比，平均丢弃的工具重量浪费要多得多。目前，不幸的是，典型的造船模具工具的设计或制造不支持可持续制造。项目团队由领先的海洋行业专家和制造商组成，项目由H2eau的Dan Couchman管理，汇集了材料、化学、加工、工程、设计和可持续复合材料技术创新方面的多学科技能和跨行业专业知识。该项目还得到了国家复合材料中心和位于普利茅斯海洋之门的SW海洋商业技术中心的支持。这种支持使我们能够接触到最新的技术、复合材料制造工艺以及领先的技术专长和技能。该项目的材料重点是碳纤维，长期以来，碳纤维一直是制造船只的首选终极材料，因为它是一种非常坚固、重量轻的材料，并提供了显著的性能提升。不幸的是，95%的碳纤维最终都被填埋了。由于不可生物降解，它将永远留在地下，因此该项目非常渴望找到能够在造船中使用的解决方案，以减少废物，特别是来自不可生物降解材料的废物，因为这是拯救地球的一个更重要的因素。因此，该项目一直在试验和测试最新一代碳纤维回收系统，特别是100%再生碳纤维非织造垫的回收范围。这些垫提供了良好的平衡机械性能，成型性和高质量的表面光洁度。利用再生碳纤维是一种改变海洋制造的方法，也是技术满足可持续性的一种方法。项目预计于2023年10月完成，届时将公布结果。

H2Eau Projects is a yacht refit & design management company headquartered in Plymouth, UK, specialising in delivering sustainable solutions for "upcycling" sailing yachts by utilising innovative marine tech and the very latest build materials.Through Innovate UK Edge and Innovation funding for Sustainable UK Materials and Manufacturing the project is being supported to develop innovative production mould yacht tooling.The project is focused heavily on sustainability and technology and aims to utilise recycled carbon fibre (rCF) with hybrid recycled core and bio-based epoxy resin to develop a super lightweight and structurally strong innovative composite matrix based on sustainable methods of manufacture to support towards a greener marine industry.Materials used in typical manufacture are not optimised, not recyclable or sustainable and the average discarded waste of tooling weight is a lot more compared to the boat built. Currently, unfortunately the typical boat building mould tooling is not designed or manufactured supporting towards sustainable manufacture.The project team assembled from leading marine industry experts and manufacturers and project managed by Dan Couchman of H2eau, brings together a unique mix of multi-disciplinary skills and cross-industry expertise in materials, chemistry, processing, engineering, design, and innovation in sustainable composite technologies. The project is also being supported by the National Composite Centre and the SW Marine Business Technology Centre at Oceansgate in Plymouth. The support opens access to the latest technology, composite manufacturing processes and leading technical expertise and skills.The project's material focus is on carbon fibre, which has long been the preferred ultimate material of choice for the manufacturing of boats since it's an extremely strong, yet light weight material and provides a significant performance increase. Unfortunately, 95% of carbon fibre ends up in landfill. Since it is not biodegradable, it will stay in the ground forever so the project is very keen to find solutions that will work within boat building to reduce waste particularly from non-biodegradable materials, as this is an even more relevant important factor in saving the planet. The project has therefore been trialling and testing the latest generation carbon fibre recovery systems, in particular a recycled range of 100% recycled carbon fibre nonwoven mats. These mats provide an excellent balance of mechanical properties, formability and high-quality surface finish. Utilising recycled carbon fibre is a game changing approach to marine manufacturing and where technology meets sustainability.The project completion is scheduled for October 2023 when results will be published.