Outcome of FEMM Hub's 3rd Feasibility Call Announced
The Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub launched its 3rd Feasibility call in August 2023 to provide a mechanism for new academic collaborators to engage with the FEMM Hub. It was offering awards up to the value of £75,000 each (80% fEC) to support Feasibility Studies at TRLs 1-3. The call was open to all UK academics eligible to receive EPSRC funding and whose institutions are not currently FEMM Hub partners. Proposals were envisaged to have a maximum duration of 12 months and maximum value of £93,750 at full Economic Cost (fEC), with funding to be awarded at 80% of fEC.
The FEMM Hub were impressed by the quality of applications and are happy to share that 7 projects were funded (see below). More information on these projects will be available in due course:
Additive manufacturing of stator winding for cryogenically cooled axial flux motors
PI: Prof Xiaoze Pei, University of Bath
Aerosol deposition of ceramic coatings for high performance machine insulation
PI: Dr David Hall, The University of Manchester
Circular Economy in Electrical Machines Manufacture
PI: Dr Halid Abu-Bakar, University of Exeter
Electric Motor Disassembly
PI: Yongjing Wang, Birmingham University
Novel Manufacturing Approach to Design Electrical Steels used in E-Machines: NOMA-ES
PI: Professor Soran Birosca, University of Portsmouth
Novel manufacturing-led structures for electrical machines under extreme working environments.
PI: Dr Pedram Asef, UCL
Thermally Stable Electric Insulation Materials and Technologies via Wet Chemistry (ThermInsu)
PI: Dr Yongxin Pang, Teeside University