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Harper and ORNL to focus on carbon fiber analysis
Reinforced Plastics Volume 00, Number 00 December 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Technology Harper and ORNL to focus on carbon fiber analysis
ORNL’s carbon fiber technology facility. Picture courtesy ORNL.
Harper International, a specialist in custom thermal processing solutions for advanced materials and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been awarded funding to improve the analysis of critical processing factors, such as temperature, gas flow and chemical reaction, in carbon fiber production equipment. The project, entitled ‘Development and Validation of Simulation Capability for the
High Capacity Production Carbon Fiber’ has been set up to ensure that designs provide the necessary uniformity to produce fiber of a certain quality, output and cost ideal for automotive applications. The results will then be validated at the pilot scale equipment designed and installed by Harper at ORNL’s carbon fiber technology facility, followed by testing in a commercial production facility.
The funding came from the US Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office’s HPC4Mfg program. The program was designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing via public-private partnerships.
Harper International; www.harperintl.com
0034-3617/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2016.12.053
1 Please cite this article in press as: Reinf. Plast. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2016.12.053
TECHNOLOGY
Technology Harper and ORNL to focus on carbon fiber analysis
ORNL’s carbon fiber technology facility. Picture courtesy ORNL.
Harper International, a specialist in custom thermal processing solutions for advanced materials and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been awarded funding to improve the analysis of critical processing factors, such as temperature, gas flow and chemical reaction, in carbon fiber production equipment. The project, entitled ‘Development and Validation of Simulation Capability for the
High Capacity Production Carbon Fiber’ has been set up to ensure that designs provide the necessary uniformity to produce fiber of a certain quality, output and cost ideal for automotive applications. The results will then be validated at the pilot scale equipment designed and installed by Harper at ORNL’s carbon fiber technology facility, followed by testing in a commercial production facility.
The funding came from the US Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office’s HPC4Mfg program. The program was designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing via public-private partnerships.
Harper International; www.harperintl.com
0034-3617/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2016.12.053
1 Please cite this article in press as: Reinf. Plast. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2016.12.053