Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Sergio Saponara, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
The European “Green Deal” initiative by the EU commission strives for sustainable mobility and efficient use of resources. Within HiEFFICIENT the project partners will work towards these goals and will develop the next generation of wide band-gap semiconductors (WBG) in the area of smart mobility. To boost this development and the market introduction in automotive applications, HiEFFICIENT partners have set ambitious goals to gain higher acceptance and achieve the maximum benefit in using WBG semiconductors:
1.) Reduction in Volume of 40%, by means of integration on all levels (component-, subsystem- and system level),
2.) Increase efficiency beyond 98%, while reducing losses of up to 50%,
3.) Increase reliability of wide band-gap power electronic system to ensure a lifetime improvement of up to 20%.
To accomplish the targeted goals, the partners will work on industrial use cases to demonstrate the key achievements and the progress that goes beyond state of the art. This includes, amongst others, modular inverters with different voltage levels (such as 48V, 400V, 800V), flexible on- and multi-use off-board chargers for different voltage levels, multi-purpose DC/DC converters and test systems for power electronics’ lifetime testing. These use cases are led by OEMs and other industrial partners, who define requirements and specifications for the envisioned systems.
The project work starts at component-level, developing highly integrated GaN and SiC devices, and is followed by multi-objective design optimization and virtual prototyping approaches. High integration means big challenges in thermal management, which will be addressed by the development of advanced cooling concepts and modularity for the sake of maintainability and flexibility for future applications. Finally, the demonstrators are integrated in relevant environments to proof the concepts and the applicability for electric drivetrains with higher integration, higher efficiency, and higher reliability.
Coordinator
AVL LIST GMBH (Austria)
Participants
- AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Austria)
- AVL SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONS GMBH (Germany)
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND (Germany)
- MERCEDES-BENZ AG (Germany)
- ELAPHE POGONSKE TEHNOLOGIJE DOO (Slovenia)
- FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH (Austria)
- FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Germany)
- HELIOX BV (The Netherlands)
- INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Germany)
- INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (Austria)
- INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM (Belgium)
- VIRTUAL VEHICLE RESEARCH GMBH (Austria)
- NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO (The Netherlands)
- POWERDALE (Belgium)
- RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (Germany)
- SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE (Slovakia)
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN (The Netherlands)
- VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR SAS (France)
- VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Belgium)
- NANO DESIGN SRO (Slovakia)
- TDK Electronics AG (Germany)
- ATLAS TECHNOLOGIES BV (The Netherlands)
- SET POWER SYSTEMS GMBH (Germany)
- FLEXIBLE AND GREEN MECHATRONICS SOLUTIONS SRL (Italy)
- IDEAS & MOTION SRL (Italy)
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Italy)
- INTERACTIVE FULLY ELECTRICAL VEHICLES SRL (Italy)
- SILICON AUSTRIA LABS GMBH (Austria)
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ (Germany)
- POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Italy)
- FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI ANONIM SIRKETI (Turkey)
- AVL ARASTIRMA VE MUHENDISLIK SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI (Turkey)
Start date: 1/05/2021
End date: 30/04/2024
Project cost: EUR 41 918 393,75
EU Contribution: EUR 11 936 415,58
UNIPI quota: EUR 165 812,50
Call title: H2020-ECSEL-2020-2-RIA-two-stage
UNIPI role: partner
Website: https://www.hiefficient.eu/