Cygnet Texkimp multi-axis winder. Photo Credit: Cygnet Texkimp.
The Northwest Composites Centre (NWCC, Manchester, U.K.), which is part of the University of Manchester’s Department of Materials, and composites technology company Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, U.K.) have announced a new research project that will demonstrate the damage tolerance and impact resistance of composite parts manufactured using Cygnet Texkimp’s multi-axis winder (MAW) and 3D winder technologies compared to parts created using braiding and conventional filament winding.
The research will be undertaken by the National Composites Certification and Evaluation Facility (NCCEF), the commercial arm of the Northwest Composites Centre which provides independent, accredited testing and qualifying services to the aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, marine and wind energy industries, including all major primes and Tier 1 and 2 suppliers.
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27 April 2021
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EDF Group and Rosatom have signed an agreement to jointly promote clean hydrogen projects in Russia and Europe. Rosatom said development of hydrogen technologies has an important role to play in the implementation of the Paris Agreement, aimed at keeping the global average temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
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The Russian nuclear industry has significant technological and research potential, Rosatom said, to develop the main methods of hydrogen production - electrolysis and steam conversion of methane using CO2 capture technologies. Rosatom added it is focused on the development of low-carbon hydrogen production technologies, its storage, as well as participation in pilot hydrogen projects both in Russia and abroad.
“[This is] without a carbon price and obviously, with a carbon price, even faster. But we expect that by 2030, green hydrogen can cost below $2 per kilogram in most geographies and even lower in favorable geographies with very cheap renewables.”
In these favourable locations, such as Australia, the cost of green H
2 is expected to fall to $1 per kg by 2030, according to the ETC report,
Making the Hydrogen Economy Possible: Accelerating Clean Hydrogen in an Electrified Economy.
The cost of producing grey hydrogen made from unabated natural gas or coal, and pumping 830 million tonnes of CO
2 into the air each year is currently between $0.70 and $2.20/kg, largely depending on the price of natural gas or coal. This is not expected to change this decade.