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North East leads ?6m nanotechnology collaboration

Lindsay Gill

A NORTH East innovation centre has helped secure over €6m for the world’s largest collaborative nanofluids project.

NanoHex involves 12 organisations from Europe and Israel and will be led by Northumberland based thermal management solutions company, Thermacore Europe Ltd.

Enterprise Europe Network North East, managed by the Centre for Process Innovation crafted the bid.

David Mullen, Thermacore’s senior research development engineer and project director for NanoHex, said: “Cooling is an issue facing many industries such as microelectronics, transportation, manufacturing and power generation.

“Data centres account for 2% of the global CO2 emissions and the technological advancement of the large electric drives used high speed trains now requires a more sophisticated heat transfer system to extend their life time and increase performance.

“We have a unique opportunity to develop a high performance nanofluid and aim to upscale the manufacturing process, in order to take this groundbreaking product to market.”

NanoHex aims to develop an innovative nanofluid coolant up to 40% more efficient than traditional coolants.

The nanofluid coolant will then be trialled in working demonstrators to help combat the increasing heat loads experienced in the automotive industry.

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