Abstract:
The GreenSTAMP project is about designing novel, green, high-performance, boundary-film contacts for stamping that satisfy technological and increasingly strict legislative requirements that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. This is a critical requirement for stamping and other heavy-loaded lubricated mechanical components because existing European and national regulations has already placed severe restrictions on the use of many of the most effective lubricant additives and so are affecting the performance of some modern machinery.
In this intra-sectorial and interdisciplinary project the two world-leading groups will search for a breakthrough answer: an academic team that has pioneered much of the research in boundary films and boundary lubrication (Laboratory for Tribology and Interface NanoTechnology; TINT); and the R&D team of Hidria corporation, one of the world’s top-4 leading producers of high-quality stamping electrical steel laminations for stacks and EM for the most prominent OEMs in the automotive segment. Hidria, which is among the leading European companies in high-tech sustainable and green technologies, is determined to be the first to introduce novel, advanced, green lubrication in heavy-duty stamping, and so satisfy the stringent environmental regulations and at the same time achieve improved performance.
The phases of the project and their realization:
WP1 – Selection of materials, lubricants & sample preparation (Lead Partner: Hidria)
Task 1.1: Selection of materials (Hidria): This task has been realized.
Task 1.2: Selection of base fluids and additives (Hidria, TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 1.3: Preparation of mixtures (TINT, Hidria): This task has been realized.
Task 1.4: Material samples preparation (TINT): This task has been realized.
WP2 – Wetting, free surface energy, solubility, cleanliness and corrosion (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 2.1: Surface free energy and wetting (TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 2.2: Mixtures solubility (TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 2.3: Mixtures cleaning and corrosiveness (Hidria): This task has been realized.
WP3 – Tribo-contact lubrication performance (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 3.1: Definition of contact conditions and tribological testing (TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 3.2: Tribometric analyses (TINT): This task has been realized.
WP4 – Nano-scale mechanical and tribochemical characterisation of boundary films (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 4.1: Characterization of boundary films (TINT, Hidria): This task has been realized.
WP5 – Wear mechanisms mapping and Lab-scale tribology test methodology (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 5.1: Wear mechanisms mapping (TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 5.2: Lab-scale stamping method and its methodology (TINT): This task has been realized.
WP6 – Real-scale validation (Lead Partner: Hidria)
Task 6.1: Validation (Hidria): This task has been realized.
WP7 – Lubrication mechanisms, optimisation and interface design (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 7.1: Determining lubrication mechanisms (TINT): This task has been realized.
Task 7.2: Nano-engineered green lubrication interface design (TINT, Hidria): This task has been realized.
WP8 – Management (Lead Partner: TINT)
Task 8.1: Coordinator, SB and DEB activity: This task has been realized.
Task 8.2: Management of daily activities: This task has been realized.
WP9 – Exploitation and Dissemination (Lead Partner: Hidria)
Task 9.1: Ensuring maximum public coverage of the results: This task has been realized.
Task 9.2: IPR and Industrialisation activities: This task has been realized.
