Improving Energy Efficiency of Car Climate Control with SLS
OPEN ACCESS
Loading...
Author / Creator
Date
2015
Publication Type
Report
ETH Bibliography
yes
Citations
Altmetric
OPEN ACCESS
Data
Rights / License
Abstract
urope, passenger cars are responsible for 12% of C O 2 emissions. The European Commission established new regulations to drastically redu ce the emissions from 130g to 95g CO 2 per km between 2015 and 2021. While the automobile i ndustry is looking at different ways to meet those criteria, the presented industry-driven p roject aims at reducing energy consumption by up to 30% of air-conditioning (AC) in passenger c ars with the introduction of a novel system. The current systems reduce the fuel economy to up to 2 0% for gas motors and even more for electric cars. Through Selective Laser Sintering (SLS ) design freedom and short production cycles; the design of the AC casing was drastically opti mized to increase its contact area with incoming air. To further increase the heat exchange t hroughout the system, the thermal conductivity of SLS material was improved by incorpor ation of mineral fillers. The successful implementation of both optimizations led to a CO 2 emission reduction of around 50% for the climate control of passenger cars.
Permanent link
Publication status
published
External links
Editor
Book title
Journal / series
Volume
Pages / Article No.
Publisher
ETH-Zürich
Event
Edition / version
Methods
Geographic location
Date collected
Date created
Subject
SINTERING (POWDER METALLURGY); KLIMAANLAGEN, HEIZUNG (FAHRZEUGTECHNIK); LASER PROCESSING OF MATERIALS (MACHINING); LASERSTRAHLBEARBEITUNG (SPANENDE UMFORMUNG); AIR CONDITIONING, HEATING (VEHICLE ENGINEERING); SINTERN (PULVERMETALLURGIE)
Organisational unit
03641 - Wegener, Konrad (emeritus) / Wegener, Konrad (emeritus)
02130 - Dep. Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik / Dep. of Mechanical and Process Eng.