Insights into emerging battery storage technologies and their impact on design factors for battery casings

Kick-Off: September 11^th, 2024

Do you know…

• … that the global battery market is set to grow by 34% annually until 2030? In the race for market share, new players are catching up.
• … that battery technologies, like solid-state not only have the potential of surpassing energy density compared to conventional LIBs, but also offer increased safety?
• … what are the material and design options for battery housings for cells with nonthermal propagation cell technologies?

What you‘ll get:

Expert assessment and evaluation of future battery technologies and their impact on requirements for material and design of battery casings.

• WP1: Screening of future battery technologies and trends with high market potential
• WP2: Impact analysis on future battery housing requirements, materials and design layouts
• WP3: Creation of design layouts and analysis of material variants.
• WP4: Business case scenarios for future design- and manufacturing concepts.

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If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:

Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services 
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de

Techniques for prediction of cell- and casing behaviour after the initial trigger event for thermal propagation

Kick-Off: September 11^th, 2024

Do you know…

• … what happens at a thermal runaway event for different battery call? Will a flame result? What temperatures will occur?
• … how will the hot released gasses spread through the battery pack and put thermal and mechanical
• … how to predict whether a battery pack will safely survive a thermal runaway event according to regulations?
• … how effective different shielding materials avoid thermal propagation?

What you‘ll get:

The project provides know-how and predictive methods for the events happening after a first thermal runaway of a battery cell.

• WP1: Analysis of state of the art and future battery cell types.
• WP2: Analysis of thermal runaway cell to cell propagation behaviour for different cell types
• WP3: Analysis of hot gas development and flow through the battery pack, pressure build-up and temperature loading on the battery casing structure.
• WP4: Example thermo-mechanical CAE analysis for different tray and lid layouts, using different materials.

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If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:

Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services 
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de

Potentials for composite materials and technologies for rotor sleeves to improve electric drive trains

Kick-Off: September 12^th, 2024

Electric motors are playing an increasingly important role, especially for future mobility. High-speed permanent magnet motors offer several advantages, including high power density and efficiency.

Did you know?

• Providing improved efficiency, high power-to-weight ratio and compact design in combination with optimized performance is the key to powertrain development. Composite-based rotor sleeves are particularly suitable for contributing to all of these development goals.
• Stabilizing the rotor at high rotational speeds in terms of strength and radial elongation with composite rotor sleeves enables tighter air gaps between rotor and stator and reduces eddy current losses compared to metal reinforcements.
• Some manufacturers of high-performance battery electric vehicles, drones and eVTOLs are already using composite rotor sleeves. The technology is now ready for spreading into mass applications, besides mobility also into industrial applications like power tools.

What you‘ll get:

Expert assessment and evaluation of potentials for composite materials and technologies in the field of rotor sleeves for high-speed electric motors.

• WP1: Screening of current and future applications, research landscape and market situation.
• WP2: Impact analysis on requirements, material, process and design layout.
• WP3: Business case scenarios for future design- and manufacturing concepts of selected highlight-applications.

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If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:

Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de

Potentials for composite materials and technologies in the field of air mobility and small/medium sized wind energy systems

Kick-Off: September 18^th, 2024

Did you know?

• Propellers and rotors are having their come-back for efficient flying and clean energy production with composite materials playing a key role.
• Electrical flying opens new sectors, demanding innovative propeller designs and composite mass production technologies to soar ahead with composites?
• More than 10% CAGR for general aviation generates new opportunities in propeller production.
• The demand for propellers only for commercial drones is estimated at up to 100 million parts per year.
• More than 9% CAGR for small wind turbines, rotors are essential not only for flying vehicles but also play a vital role in generating green energy

What you‘ll get:

Expert assessment and evaluation of potentials for composite materials and technologies in the field of propellers and small to medium-sized rotors.

• WP1: Screening of current market situation and evaluation of future potentials.
• WP2: Identification of latest materials, technologies, and manufacturing processes.
• WP3: Business case scenarios for future design- and manufacturing concepts of selected highlight-applications.

⏬ Download the flyer

If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:

Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services 
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de