Addressing the development challenges for low carbon transport

Mike Dickison Commercial Director Faculty of Engineering & Computing Tel. +44(0)7974 984679

SIAT 2013 UK Trade and Investment’s Technologies Seminar 12th January 2013, ARAI, Pune

Coventry University’s engagement with the automotive supply chain and OEMs

£55m new Engineering & Computing Building

The Faculty of Engineering & Computing

300 Academic Staff

3500 Undergraduate Students

800 Postgraduate Students (MSc/MBA)

150 Research Students (PhD/MPhil/MSc)

Activity Led Learning (ALL)

Applied research - relevant to today’s challenges

Providing real business impact

Mitigating risk through technical solutions

Delivering value for money

Empowerment through expert advice

Creating and maintaining effective and rewarding relationships

“The students we educate and the companies we serve demand the same:

responsive expertise delivered when it is required and followed up by advice

and value for money support.”

Facilities

£55m new Engineering & Computing building

Shaker Rig

Wind & smoke tunnel

Mercedes Petronas sub-sonic wind tunnel

Metrology laboratory

Metal workshops

Lathes, CNC machinery

Rapid prototyping and laser cutters

Hydraulics, flow channels and compression testing workshop

Ethical hacking laboratory

Pervasive computing laboratory

High performance computing facility

Aerospace simulation laboratory

Autonomous vehicles laboratory

Mathematical sciences laboratory

...and more

International Collaborations

Methods of engagement with industry

• Student projects

• Collaborative projects with academia and industry

• Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

• Consultancy

Student Projects Both individual and group

Engineering and Design, often as a single team

3rd Year Individual Student Project 2 Seater Low Carbon Car for Intercity Travelling

Student Projects Low Carbon City Car

Collaborative projects with academia and industry

EPSRC – e.g. TARF-LCV, lightweight structures ERDF – e.g. NIS, EIV European Framework – e.g. various safety and lightweighting TSB (Concept to Commercialisation) – e.g. CABLED Microcab

WMG led Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Coventry University Lead Partner in Ultra Low Drag Aerodynamic

Workstream Project (£19m ERDF and AWM funded, £10m from industry)

Contributing Partner in the following:- Auxiliary power units Vehicle supervisory control Lightweight structures

Vehicle dynamics and traction control High efficiency HVAC

Work commenced in early 2009 and active phase finished in early 2012

Reduction of parasitic losses Waste energy recovery and alternative energy storage Human machine interface

Full Scale Testing - Small MPV

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Production

Car

Wheel

Covers on

Flat Floor

Fitted

Front Intakes

Closed

All Front End

Vents and

Gaps Sealed

Door Mirrors

removed

Underfloor

Wheel Arch

Blanking

7° Diffuser 30mm Front

Wheel

Spoilers

65mm

Extrusion

Tailgate Box

Cavity

Wheel /Sill

Panel

Modification

CD

•Full Scale Wind Tunnel Testing at MIRA •Development programme carried out •Cd reduced from 0.29 to 0.21

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Software used is STARCCM+

• Areas of expertise:

• External flows

• Internal flows

• Heat transfer

Conceptual Vehicle Styling/ Aerodynamic Performance Integration

Niche Vehicle Network

Funded by AWM £2.5M 3 year Programme Delivered by Cenex (Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technology) Work commenced in January 2009

Aerodynamic Benchmarking Studies

Wind Tunnel

testing at MIRA

12 Niche Vehicles (4 tests per day)

Establish current levels of performance

Acted as a catalyst for new projects

Recyclable Vacuum-Formed Plastic Body Panels Feasibility Study

•Project Partner: Sparlonz (vacuum forming)

•Project Partner: Westfield Sportscars

Westfield Sportscars Zolfe Sportz

Electric Race Car Project Control System Development • Lead Organisation: Westfield Cars

• Project partners: RDM Automotive, Potenza Technology, Delta Motorsport

• Coventry University undertook torque vectoring study for motor control system

Vehicle & System Dynamics

Motorsport (Williams F1, Mini WRC, Aston Martin Racing GT1) developing aerodynamics and vehicle performance

Road cars

Developing passive & active dynamic systems (suspension tuning, geometry development, steering development, torque-vectoring algorithms & applications)

EPSRC funded project: Towards Affordable, Closed-Loop

Recyclable Future Low Carbon Vehicles (TARF-LCV)

• Objective – to deliver lightweight high volume vehicle bodies in a sustainable manner

• £4m programme

• 4 years duration – mid 2011 to 2015

• 8 Universities

• Coventry leading vehicle design and LCA cluster

Optimisation lightweighting of vehicle architecture

Lightweighting Architecture Optimisation

Emissions Research- Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)

Microcab Hydrogen Fuel Cell HEV

• Bringing 8 HFC powered urban cars to the CABLED project (Microcab)

• An integral part of our Low Carbon Vehicle Grand Challenge

• Developing knowledge and expertise

• European Hydrogen Infrastructure funded programme

• Prototype build and development undertaken by Coventry University

• Lightweight sheet aluminium bonded and riveted chassis

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

• Accredited and non-accredited

• Tailored to suit customers’ individual requirements

• Wide range of subject areas and growing

• Not just purely academic – extensive practical applications

• Examples:- – Electric and hybrid vehicle developing technologies

– Light aircraft technical training

Infosys MSc Courses

• Mixed Flying Faculty and Customer Accredited Delivery

• Major International Client highly active in Aerospace and Computing Sectors

• Delivered at 6 Sites in India

Three MSc Streams:

MBA Engineering Management

MTech Computing

MTech Mechanical Engineering

Bangalore & Mysore

Chennai Mcity & Bhubaneswar

Pune & Mangalore

Consultancy

• Growing activity at Coventry University

• Centred around individual subject specialists

– Vehicle Dynamics

– Control systems (EVs)

– Vehicle safety

– Human Machine Interfacing (HMI)

– Lightweight Materials & Structures

Consultancy

• Civil engineering – testing of foundation of varying compositions

• Control system development, algorithm development – transport and industrial

• Software and app development

• Project Planning and Management

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What we do:

Product Design & Development User focused design, ideation, conceptualisation and design engineering through to manufacture

Vehicle styling & Chassis design New vehicle concepts, styling upgrades and feature design, CAD services for chassis design development

Design visualisation Renderings & animations for product evaluation & presentation

Rapid Prototyping Working prototypes and presentation models using in house facilities

Digital media & Graphics Product graphics, packaging, branding, website design and programming

Consultants Unit - Design Institute

Coventry University Design Institute Niche Car Packaging Studies and Chassis

Design

Milling of Resin Tools and Models

3D Scanning and Modelling D

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Contact us

business.ec@coventry.ac.uk

Faculty of Engineering & Computing

Coventry University

Priory Street

Coventry

CV1 5FB

024 7688 7688

Visit us at: www.coventry.ac.uk/ecbusiness

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