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A paradigm shift for the future's thermal management devices through radical innovation in new materials and additive manufacturing

Descrizione del progetto

Un nuovo materiale per il raffreddamento dei centri di elaborazione dati

Il raffreddamento delle apparecchiature informatiche di un centro di elaborazione dati non è per nulla economico: questo processo può richiedere fino al 40 % del consumo energetico totale di un tipico edificio per uffici. Il recupero e il trasporto del calore sono le principali sfide associate a tale operazione. Il progetto ThermoDust, finanziato dall’UE, risolverà il problema del controllo termico. La sua soluzione consiste in nuovi materiali flessibili lavorabili mediante il metodo della produzione additiva che manifestano prestazioni termiche senza precedenti. Utilizzando la polvere metallica con dimensioni micrometriche (solitamente usata in processi quali la fusione a letto di polvere o la spruzzatura a freddo) come punto di partenza, il progetto approfondirà l’aggiunta di una fase con un materiale bidimensionale performante alla polvere di base. L’obiettivo finale è quello di ingegnerizzare un materiale radicalmente nuovo che sia dotato di eccellenti prestazioni di trasporto del calore.

Obiettivo

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.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-EIC - HORIZON EIC Grants

Coordinatore

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 788 043,50
Indirizzo
COLLEGE GREEN TRINITY COLLEGE
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Irlanda

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Regione
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 788 043,50

Partecipanti (4)