Title
Novel Manufacture of Heat Exchangers

CoPED ID
c4e56db7-e4cd-4cb7-aace-09ef19728438

Status
Closed


Value
£648,756

Start Date
Jan. 1, 2017

End Date
March 30, 2018

Description

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Hiflux Ltd designs and manufactures revolutionary compact heat exchangers which recover up to 90% of waste heat in demanding high temperature and pressure applications. Hiflux technology has been proven in industrial field trials in markets such as small-scale combined heat and power, automotive, clean waste processing and hybrid energy systems. The heat exchanger technology features fine arrays of small pins laser welded between thin sheets arranged in a structure that combines strength to withstand pressure loads and flexibility to accommodate large thermal gradients. The resulting structure has a high level of material integrity but the automation is limited by the use of pulsed YAG laser technology. This project addresses how the process of manufacture, developed for small volumes, can be evolved so that Hiflux can demonstrate a clear path to economically viable high volume manufacture. Hiflux, together with project partners Imperial College and ECM Developments Ltd will investigate new ways of using continuous wave fibre lasers to achieve an optimal balance between throughput, initial capital expenditure, energy usage and total cost of ownership. The project will also examine the merits of adapting the manufacture techiques to production of high temperature micro-pin heat exchangers in combination with electro-chemical machining.

Hiflux Limited LEAD_ORG
Hiflux Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Ecm Developments Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Imperial College London PARTICIPANT_ORG

Tanzi Besant PM_PER
Tanzi Besant PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Heat exchangers
  2. Lasers
  3. Manufacturing
  4. Laser technology
  5. Heat energy
  6. Temperature

Extracted key phrases
  1. Revolutionary compact heat exchanger
  2. Hiflux Ltd design
  3. Heat exchanger technology
  4. Viable high volume manufacture
  5. Pin heat exchanger
  6. Novel Manufacture
  7. Waste heat
  8. Heat Exchangers
  9. Small pin laser
  10. ECM Developments Ltd
  11. High temperature micro
  12. Manufacture techique
  13. YAG laser technology
  14. Project partner Imperial College
  15. Continuous wave fibre laser

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