Novel Embedded Sensing Technology for Smart Tubes and Connectors

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解决摩擦学接触（磨损、摩擦和润滑）方面的挑战，从而推动了转型。利用其独特的技术堆栈，它可以在嵌入式组件级别提供无与伦比的信息密度数据，具有应力、润滑膜厚度、磨损、流体特性、接触压力和无损检测的核心测量能力。Tribosonics已经开发出新的超声波和其他测量技术，用于测量工业应用中的密封件，可以应用于汽车工业。该项目的目的是引进一套创新的排放控制系统，大幅提高汽车发动机的环保效益。汽车行业受到新冠肺炎疫情的巨大影响。英国汽车行业每年的贸易额超过1000亿英镑。目前的预测显示，2019冠状病毒病将造成335亿英镑的生产损失。截至2020年6月1日，估计欧洲的生产损失为2,446,344辆。预计2020年全球乘用车需求将下降20%，大众汽车宣布停产一周损失22亿美元。许多旨在刺激经济复苏的政府支持都与环境可持续性有关：使现有车辆减少污染，并加速向本质上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2019冠状病毒病危机后创新和复苏的关键驱动力。世界经济论坛还预计，新冠肺炎疫情将加速行业整合和转型。在全球范围内，欧洲制定了最雄心勃勃的目标，即在2020/2021年将二氧化碳排放量减少95克/公里，到2025年再次减少15%，到2030年减少37.5%。面对Covid-19的挑战，如果没有大量的创新（本项目是其中之一），那么这些雄心勃勃的目标将不得不放松，这是一种真正的危险。这将对环境的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。这将通过在发动机部件中嵌入Tribosonics技术来实现，使“智能部件”能够解决并减少排放，以满足为实现上述目标而引入的监管变化的要求。

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.