Projektbeschreibung
Neuer Werkstoff für kühlere Rechenzentren
IT-Ausrüstung in Rechenzentren zu kühlen, ist alles andere als cool, denn dabei können bis zu 40 % des Gesamtenergieverbrauchs eines typischen Bürogebäudes beansprucht werden. Wärmeableitung und -transport sind dabei die größten Herausforderungen. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt ThermoDust wird das Problem mit dem Wärmemanagement lösen. Die Lösung besteht in neuen flexiblen Materialien, die mittels additiver Fertigung zu verarbeiten sind und beispiellose thermische Leistungseigenschaften aufweisen. Das Projekt wird ausgehend von mikrometerkleinen Metallpulvern (die typischerweise in Pulverbettschmelz- oder Kaltgasspritzverfahren eingesetzt werden) das Hinzufügen einer leistungsfähigen zweidimensionalen Materialphase zum Ausgangsmaterialpulver erkunden. Ultimatives Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines völlig neuen Werkstoffs mit hervorragender Wärmetransportleistung.
Ziel
Thermal management is in the strong need for new material’s innovation. Stunningly, large data centres spend up to 40% of the total energy consumption to run the cooling system. Other examples are in the cooling of electronics and in the thermal control of electric vehicles batteries. Here, the development of innovative solutions is hindered by heat removal and transport unsolved problems; the design aspect of thermal control devices has achieved so much but is already under pressure. New flexible materials, that can be processed with Additive Manufacturing (AM) and with thermal performances not yet seen, are now strongly required. In ThermoDust we will achieve a real breakthrough in this direction; we are set to join nanotechnology, process engineering with scalable industrial AM for the specific purpose of solving the thermal control problem; this is not an incremental step as it has not been done before. Our starting ground is micron-sized metallic powder, typically used in Powder Bed Fusion or Cold Spray processes. We will explore the addition of a performing 2D-material phase to the feedstock powder by using innovative techniques, with the final aim of engineering a radically new material (ThermoDust) with outstanding heat-transport performance. We will also prove it will be possible to use AM to process ThermoDust in order to form demonstrator devices that will outperform the current means of heat dissipation. And we intend to prove this in 3 key sectors: electronics, EV vehicles and aerospace with the development of specific proofs of concept. We are confident to be able to achieve the overall objectives through a sophisticated multi-disciplinary methodology that will rely upon scientific investigations, and the exploitation of discoveries to establish Europe as a leader in heat management, paving the way for innumerable new innovative products and markets in ICT, aerospace, electric vehicles and related areas.
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