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

Opis projektu

Nowy materiał do chłodzenia centrów danych

Chłodzenie urządzeń IT w centrach może odpowiadać za nawet 40 % całkowitego zużycia energii w typowym budynku biurowym. Głównymi wyzwaniami są odprowadzanie i transport ciepła. Finansowany przez UE projekt ThermoDust ma rozwiązać problem kontroli temperatury w takich centrach. Rozwiązaniem są nowe elastyczne materiały, które można obrabiać metodą przyrostową i które wykazują niespotykane właściwości termiczne. Biorąc za punkt wyjścia mikronowej wielkości proszek metaliczny (zwykle używany w procesach fuzji w łożu proszkowym lub natryskiwania na zimno), zespół zbada możliwości dodania do proszku wyjściowego fazy materiału 2D. Ostatecznym celem jest stworzenie zupełnie nowego materiału o wyjątkowych właściwościach w zakresie przenoszenia ciepła.

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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.

Koordynator

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Wkład UE netto
€ 788 043,50
Adres
COLLEGE GREEN TRINITY COLLEGE
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Irlandia

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Region
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Rodzaj działalności
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Linki
Koszt całkowity
€ 788 043,50

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