MERLIN
Development of Aero Engine Component Manufacture using Laser Additive Manufacturing
| Coordinatore | ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
Organization address
address: BUCKINGHAM GATE 65 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 7˙062˙175 € |
| EC contributo | 4˙886˙561 € |
| Programma | FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) |
| Code Call | FP7-AAT-2010-RTD-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-01-01 - 2014-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
Organization address
address: BUCKINGHAM GATE 65 contact info |
UK (LONDON) | coordinator | 223˙164.00 |
| 2 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 978˙099.44 |
| 3 |
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Organization address
address: Hansastrasse 27C contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 726˙323.50 |
| 4 |
HOGSKOLAN VAST
Organization address
address: HOGSKOLAN VAST contact info |
SE (TROLLHATTAN) | participant | 544˙233.00 |
| 5 |
MTU AERO ENGINES AG
Organization address
address: DACHAUER STRASSE 665 contact info |
DE (MUNCHEN) | participant | 404˙000.00 |
| 6 |
BCT STEUERUNGS UND DV-SYSTEME GMBH
Organization address
address: Carlo-Schmid-Allee 3 contact info |
DE (DORTMUND) | participant | 393˙828.80 |
| 7 |
ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS - ARMINES
Organization address
address: Boulevard Saint-Michel 60 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 327˙316.25 |
| 8 |
LORTEK S COOP
Organization address
address: ARRANOMENDIA KALEA 4 A contact info |
ES (ORDIZIA) | participant | 323˙880.60 |
| 9 |
TURBOMECA SA
Organization address
address: Avenue du President Szydlowski contact info |
FR (BORDES) | participant | 263˙871.50 |
| 10 |
FREDERICK RESEARCH CENTER
Organization address
address: "Diagorou, ERA HOUSE (11th Floor) 2" contact info |
CY (LEFKOSIA) | participant | 178˙436.60 |
| 11 |
GKN AEROSPACE SWEDEN AB
Organization address
address: - contact info |
SE (TROLLHAETTAN) | participant | 172˙746.00 |
| 12 |
LPW TECHNOLOGY LTD
Organization address
address: KECKWICK LANE VANGUARD HOUSE DARESBURY SCIENCE & INNOVATION CAMPUS contact info |
UK (DARESBURY) | participant | 165˙592.80 |
| 13 |
INDUSTRIA DE TURBO PROPULSORES S.A.
Organization address
address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE ZAMUDIO 300 contact info |
ES (ZAMUDIO-VIZCAYA) | participant | 150˙578.00 |
| 14 |
PRATT & WHITNEY RZESZOW SPOLKA AKCYJNA
Organization address
address: ULICA HETMANSKA 120 contact info |
PL (RZESZOW) | participant | 34˙490.50 |
| 15 |
ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION EN TECNOLOGIAS DE UNION LORTEK
Organization address
address: BO LA GRANJA SN contact info |
ES (ORDIZIA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 16 |
MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
Organization address
address: "Dachauer Strasse, 665" contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The concept of the MERLIN project is to reduce the environmental impact of air transport using Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques in the manufacture of civil aero engines. MERLIN will develop AM techniques, at the level 1 stage, to allow environmental benefits including near 100% material utilisation, current buy to fly ratios result in massive amounts of waste, no toxic chemical usage and no tooling costs, to impact the manufacture of future aero engine components. All of these factors will drastically reduce emissions across the life-cycle of the parts. There will also be added in-service benefits because of the design freedom in AM. Light-weighting, and the performance improvement of parts will result in reduced fuel consumption and reduced emissions. MERLIN will seek to develop the state-of-the-art by producing higher performance additive manufactured parts in a more productive, consistent, measurable, environmentally friendly and cost effective way.
The MERLIN consortia has identified the following areas where a progression of the state-of-the art is needed to take advantage of AM:
• Productivity increase. • Design or Topology optimisation. • Powder recycling validation. • In-process NDT development. • In-process geometrical validation. • High specification materials process development.
The MERLIN consortium comprises six world leading aero engine manufacturers, Rolls-Royce is the coordinator, six renowned RTD providers and two intelligent SME’s. Impacts will include the development of high value, disruptive AM technologies capable of step changes in performance which will safeguard EU companies in the high value aero engine manufacturing field. AM will significantly reduce waste in an industry where materials require massive amounts of energy and toxic chemicals, in-process toxic chemical usage will be massively reduced, and emissions will drop because of the reduced amount of material involved.'