Project description
A green boost for automotive applications
Contributing to the European Green Deal, the EU-funded HiEFFICIENT project aims to ensure sustainable mobility and resource efficiency for future transportation. Bringing together 33 partners from 9 European countries, the project consortium includes European industrial companies and research institutes. The project will work on industrial use cases, including modular inverters with different voltage levels, multi-purpose DC/DC converters, and test systems for power electronics’ lifetime testing. The HiEFFICIENT partners have set ambitious goals to gain higher acceptance and achieve maximum benefits in using wide-bandgap semiconductors in the smart mobility sector. This includes a 40 % reduction in volume, an increase towards 98 % efficiency and a 20 % improvement in wide-bandgap power electronic system reliability.
Objective
The European Green Deal initiative by the EU commission strives for sustainable mobility and efficient use of resources. Within HiEFFICIENT the project partners will work towards these goals and will develop the next generation of wide band-gap semiconductors (WBG) in the area of smart mobility. To boost this development and the market introduction in automotive applications, HiEFFICIENT partners have set ambitious goals to gain higher acceptance and achieve the maximum benefit in using WBG semiconductors:
1.) Reduction in Volume of 40%, by means of integration on all levels (component-, subsystem- and system level),
2.) Increase efficiency beyond 98%, while reducing losses of up to 50%,
3.) Increase reliability of wide band-gap power electronic system to ensure a lifetime improvement of up to 20%.
To accomplish the targeted goals, the partners will work on industrial use cases to demonstrate the key achievements and the progress that goes beyond state of the art. This includes, amongst others, modular inverters with different voltage levels (such as 48V, 400V, 800V), flexible on- and multi-use off-board chargers for different voltage levels, multi-purpose DC/DC converters and test systems for power electronics lifetime testing. These use cases are led by OEMs and other industrial partners, who define requirements and specifications for the envisioned systems.
The project work starts at component-level, developing highly integrated GaN and SiC devices, and is followed by multi-objective design optimization and virtual prototyping approaches. High integration means big challenges in thermal management, which will be addressed by the development of advanced cooling concepts and modularity for the sake of maintainability and flexibility for future applications. Finally, the demonstrators are integrated in relevant environments to proof the concepts and the applicability for electric drivetrains with higher integration, higher efficiency, and higher reliability.
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8020 Graz
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Participants (32)
8700 Leoben
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93059 Regensburg
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44227 Dortmund
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70372 Stuttgart
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1000 Ljubljana
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8020 Graz
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80686 Munchen
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5503 LP VELDHOVEN
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85579 Neubiberg
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9500 Villach
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3001 Leuven
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8010 Graz
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1640 Sint Genesius Rode
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52062 Aachen
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81243 Bratislava
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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95800 CERGY
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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811 04 Bratislava
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81671 Munchen
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5708 JZ Helmond
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88239 Wangen Im Allgau
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10024 Moncalieri To
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12051 Alba
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56126 Pisa
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12048 Sommariva Del Bosco Cn
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8010 Graz
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09111 Chemnitz
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10129 Torino
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34885 Istanbul
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34885 ISTANBUL
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