Technology Access Booster Packages
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Or want to step into a specific technology?
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The insights generated through completed projects with international consortia, technology monitoring activities, and daily research provide a valuable knowledge base on relevant industries and technologies.
Let us know what you would like to explore more closely – be it a specific technological approach, a production process or a new material. We will check how we can support you quickly and practically with targeted information, workshops or training courses.
Your Benefits:
〉〉 Comprehensive know-how: You understand the technology, its applications and market potential – even without prior knowledge
〉〉 Neutral overview: The out-of-the-box view helps company insiders to review or further develop their strategies
〉〉 Gain strategic action points: You will receive the basics to make well-founded decisions for your company
〉〉 Individual discussion: In a workshop, individual questions are discussed, an individual roadmap is drawn up and action points are explored
Example Topics
Unlock essential Know-How on Design, Technologies, Materials Requirements and the Market Trends
In the landscape of future energy supply, technologies using hydrogen as energy carrier are a key-technology necessary for decarbonisation. One essential aspect of harnessing the potentials of Hydrogen as an energy carrier lies in storage and transport. This necessitates the development of large stationary pressure vessels, as well as mobile pressure vessels for use in automobiles, trucks, buses, rail transport, and aerospace.
The AZL engineering team boasts expertise and experience in the layout, design, and production concepts of new components and comprises the technologies for designing and producing hydrogen pressure vessels. As an engineering service provider and R&D centre for composite-based lightweight construction, hydrogen pressure vessels are the subject of numerous activities and projects.
We offer this Technology Access Booster Package to create a profound understanding of the impact of material, design and production technology on performance, costs and sustainability.
OUR OFFER
Deliverables:
- Workshop: An interactive and hands-on workshop with AZL experts
- Report: Comprehensive documentation 500+ pages
The package includes
- Market & industry insights
- Share regulatory, standards & IP landscape info
- Present latest design, materials & manufacturing state-of-the-art
- Create reference designs for evaluating KPIs
- Design and CAE analysis of thermoset and thermoplastic composite pressure vessels for the evaluation of:
Cost | Weight | CO2-Impact | Recycling Options
BACKGROUND
Since 2015, the AZL Composite Pipes & Vessels Workgroup has been fostering a collaborative platform that connects active partners from research, industry, and production and application development in the field of pipes and vessels. Through this network, the exchange of knowledge and technology insights takes place and focus studies on pressure vessels have been conducted. Within a Joint Partner Project with 25 industrial partners on the topic of “Trends and Design Factors for Hydrogen Pressure Vessels” AZL created a comprehensive knowledge base. The one-year project explored regulations, examples of state-of-the-art pressure vessels, design procedures, and software packages. Detailed designs were made using various materials, addressing hydrogen permeation, leakage, weight, cost, CO2 footprint, and recycling options. AZL also offers customised support in the development of new designs, material and component testing and prototype production.
If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:
Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services | AZL Aachen GmbH
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de
Unlock essential Know-How on Design, Technologies, Materials Requirements and the Market Trends
It is expected that electric vehicles will take decisive market shares from vehicles with combustion engines within a few years. To achieve an acceptable range, these vehicles must carry large batteries with high energy density beneath the car. The AZL GmbH is always keeping track of industry developments regarding battery housing structures. During various projects, it became clear that many OEMs and suppliers see an interest in the so-called “cell-to-pack” architecture. This is expected to be the desired future layout, where more or less structural integration could also be a possibility. The elimination of modules yields cost savings and might also lead to a slightly reduced battery pack height. Therefore, interviews with OEMs also show a strong desire to transition to a cell-to-pack design in the future.
We offer this Technology Access Booster Package to create a profound understanding of the impact of material, design and production technology on performance, costs and sustainability.
OUR OFFER
Deliverables:
- Workshop: An interactive and hands-on workshop with AZL experts
- Report: Comprehensive documentation 500+ pages
The package includes
- Market & industry insights
- Requirements and regulations
- Investigation results on 4 different cell packing layouts, using different cell-types and cooling strategies. Layouts using aluminium, steel, SMC and hybrid Organosheet injection overmoulded materials
- CAE optimizations against relevant load cases
- Calculations and discussions on the contribution to the body-in-white torsional stiffness
- Evaluation of cost, weight, CO2e, and volume efficiency for each concept
- Evaluation of recyclability
BACKGROUND
As a close partner of RWTH Aachen University, one of the world’s leading universities in the field of production technology, AZL Aachen GmbH specialises in lightweight construction. As a central, interdisciplinary solution provider, AZL Aachen GmbH supports its customers in analysing, understanding and developing products, processes and markets.
Battery housings have also been the focus of AZL projects for several years. Numerous joint partner projects and individual projects have been carried out on the subject of battery housings. In a concept study, 20 different concepts for multi-material battery housings were developed and evaluated with regard to their KPIs. In other projects, tests were developed for impact and fire behaviour, which many companies now use to test their materials. Extensive knowledge about the material behaviour was built up.
A joint partner project was carried out specifically on the subject of cell to pack. AZL is currently running projects on the topics of emerging battery storage technologies and thermal propagation. Many companies today use our design, prototyping and testing services.
If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:
Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services | AZL Aachen GmbH
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de
Unlock essential Know-How on Design, Technologies, Materials Requirements and the Market Trends
Electric vehicles are rapidly gaining market share over combustion engine vehicles. To achieve an acceptable range, they require large battery packs with high energy density located beneath the car. These large packs pose a fire risk, necessitating various protection measures to meet fire safety standards and regulations.
For the development of new battery housings and the use of new materials, extensive knowledge of the fire behaviour of different materials is necessary. Comparable data of different materials helps to select the right materials and also serve as a database for further development.
In order to learn more about the fire behaviour and mechanical behaviour of materials for battery packs, an instrumented test setup was designed and built that allows testing of materials at different flame temperatures and simultaneously measuring the material strength under fire load. The strength values can be used in the CAE design of new battery packs.
More than 50 different materials were tested in a joint partner project at nominal flame temperatures of 800, 1.000 and 1.200°C. The tested materials included aluminium and steel, thermoplastic and thermoset materials, short, long and continuous fibre materials, and various kinds of shielding materials/protection layers.
We offer this Technology Access Booster Package to provide an understanding of the fire requirements of battery casings. The knowledge about the fire properties helps to select suitable materials or to classify the performance of your own materials. Many AZL partners also have their own materials tested in order to compare them with other materials.
OUR OFFER
Deliverables:
- Workshop: An interactive and hands-on workshop with AZL experts
- Report: Comprehensive documentation 300+ pages
The package includes
- Overview on requirements
- Introduction of different solutions and test methods
- Real cell test results as reference
- Description AZL testing method “Strength Test” and “Particle Blast Test”
- Test results of 50+ materials
BACKGROUND
Battery housings have also been the focus of AZL projects for several years. Numerous joint partner projects and individual projects have been carried out on the subject of battery housings. In a concept study, 20 different concepts for multi-material battery housings were developed and evaluated with regard to their KPIs. A joint partner project “Fire Protection – Application relevant Fire Test Procedure for Composites” was carried out to create a new testing method and to build up a broad database.
Additional tests have also been developed. OEMs, tiers and material manufacturers use the testing services today. The data is used for research and development projects.
AZL is currently running projects on the topics of “Emerging Battery Storage Technologies” and “Thermal Propagation”.
If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:
Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services | AZL Aachen GmbH
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de
Unlock essential Know-How on Design, Technologies, Materials Requirements and the Market Trends
The future of automotive drive systems is electric. In the foreseeable future, the number of electrically driven vehicles will surpass that of combustion engines. A key issue in comparing these technologies is the range, along with energy storage and the integration of batteries into various vehicle concepts using lightweight and robust battery casings. Multi-material concepts based on composites offer significant potential to meet the diverse requirements for functionality and performance. Compared to “conventional” battery boxes for electric cars, which are mainly made of aluminium and steel, composite solutions provide, among other benefits, lower weight with higher stiffness. Corrosion resistance and impermeability to various fluids are also key advantages.
We offer this Technology Access Booster Package to create a profound understanding of the impact of material, design and production technology on performance, costs and sustainability.
OUR OFFER
Deliverables:
- Workshop: An interactive and hands-on workshop with AZL experts
- Report: Comprehensive documentation 500+ pages
The package includes
- Market & industry insights
- Share regulatory, standards & IP landscape info
- Present latest design, materials & manufacturing state-of-the-art
- Create reference designs for evaluating KPIs
BACKGROUND
As a close partner of RWTH Aachen University, one of the world’s leading universities in the field of production technology, AZL Aachen GmbH specialises in lightweight construction. As a central, interdisciplinary solution provider, AZL Aachen GmbH supports its customers in analysing, understanding and developing products, processes and markets.
Battery housings have also been the focus of AZL projects for several years. Numerous joint partner projects and individual projects have been carried out on the subject of battery housings. In a concept study with 46 companies, 20 different concepts for multi-material battery housings were developed and evaluated with regard to their KPIs.
Many companies today use our design, prototyping and testing services.
If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:
Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services | AZL Aachen GmbH
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de
Unlock essential Know-How on Design, Technologies, Materials Requirements and the Market Trends
OUR OFFER
Deliverables:
- Workshop: An interactive and hands-on workshop with AZL experts
- Report: Comprehensive documentation 100+ pages
The package includes
- Market & technology screening incl. IP landscape info
- Present latest design, materials & manufacturing state-of-the-art
- Features and load cases
- Description and evaluation of three different design concepts
- Evaluation of KPIs
If you are interested and would like to receive more information, please get in touch with:
Philipp Fröhlig
Head of Industrial Services | AZL Aachen GmbH
Phone: +49 241 475 735 14
Mobile: +49 176 80488799
Email: philipp.froehlig@azl-aachen-gmbh.de
Philipp Fröhlig
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