HEATSCULPTOR

Novel Electron Beam Surface Sculpting for Efficient Heat Exchange

Coordinatore	COOLTECH SRL    more  Organization address address: Via Mattei 30 city: FIORANO postcode: 41042 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paolo Cognome: Guiglia Email: send email Telefono: +39 0536994585
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	1˙336˙368 €
EC contributo	1˙029˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-09-01   -   2015-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	COOLTECH SRL  Organization address address: Via Mattei 30 city: FIORANO postcode: 41042 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paolo Cognome: Guiglia Email: send email Telefono: +39 0536994585	IT (FIORANO)	coordinator	275˙187.00
2	AQUASIUM TECHNOLOGY LTD  Organization address address: PEMBROKE AVENUE 43 DENNY INDUSTRIAL city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB25 9QX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: David Cognome: Evans Email: send email Telefono: 441224000000	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	259˙350.10
3	DTK ELECTRONICS OOD  Organization address address: TZARIGRADSKO SHOSSE BLVD 133 ET 2 of 205 city: SOFIA postcode: BG-1784 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Daniel Cognome: Todotov Email: send email Telefono: +35 929718511	BG (SOFIA)	participant	224˙328.20
4	WLB LIMITED  Organization address address: ZINONOS SOZOU (OFFICE 103) 11 city: LEFKOSIA postcode: 1075 contact info Titolo: Mrs Nome: Silvia Cognome: Sotiropoulou Email: send email Telefono: +35 722475621	CY (LEFKOSIA)	participant	163˙608.70
5	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Heather Cognome: Claxton Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223899000	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	62˙551.00
6	CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AERONAUTIQUE ASBL - CENAERO  Organization address city: GOSSELIES postcode: 6041 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Janos Cognome: Vajda Email: send email Telefono: +32 71 910 928 Fax: +32 71 910 931	BE (GOSSELIES)	participant	43˙975.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'By combining a new surface engineering process with state-of-the-art thermal modelling, significant design and performance improvements to heat exchangers for electronic and electrical systems can be made. The surface designs created will not only provide an increase in surface area (allowing for smaller size heat exchanger packaging), but also enable ‘designed’ flow over a surface (which will enhance its heat transfer potential). These benefits will place a consortium of SMEs in a position to compete against competition from countries with cheaper labour overheads and the potential for charging a price premium for specialised systems, increasing their profitability and generating value in the EU economy.

There is a drive towards miniaturisation of electronic devices as well as requirements for higher power applications. The size of the heat exchangers necessary is the limiting factor for package size. By combining a European surface processing technology with complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, heat exchange surfaces will be customised and optimised. The result will be optimised, efficient heat exchangers for the next generation of electronic devices.

Conventional heat exchanger manufacturing processes are extensively developed and only small future efficiency improvements are likely to arise. The Heat-Sculptor project will generate an enabling technology that will increase the performance of heat exchangers by >23%. Until now, designs have been constrained by production technologies e.g. machining or chemical etching. The new electron beam surface engineering process, Surfi-Sculpt®, has the capability to rapidly create complex ‘Heat-Sculptor’ surface geometries that are not possible with existing techniques.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Production of heat is a natural consequence of electron flow through a conductor with resistance. As current heat exchanger capabilities near their limits, a simple modification to the structure of the heat-exchanging surface will have major impact.