JASAN-CAR

Comunicaciones en congresos

• XXIX CICAT 2024.Diego Sanz Carrillo. Sistema de captura y metanación de CO2 con materiales híbridos “MOF-s catalizadores de Ru”.
• Composites International Conference 2024. Rakel Herrero et al. Structural simulation and alternative fabrication of a rear suspension for link using composite materials for electric vehicle application.
• IPPT-TWINN: Rakel Herrero. New materials and manufacturing technologies for carbon footprint reduction in automotive applications.
• HEXAGON: José Luís Fernández Díaz. Design and Engineering Iberia. Metodología para el aligeramiento de componentes fabricados en tecnología aditiva (AM).

Reducing carbon footprints is a global goal that in Europe has taken the form of a 55% reduction in 2030 compared with 1990 values. Transporting people is responsible for generating a large volume of emissions that damage the environment. Consequently, any kind of project or development that helps reduce the carbon footprint produced by that sector collaborates on meeting the reduction goals set by the various governments. Several studies conclude that, as a whole, transport creates around 25%-30% of the annual proportion of total CO₂ emissions in the European Union. However, it is highly likely that those percentages fall short, because they are based on pollution generated exclusively by transport. But they do not take the industrial activity of the automotive sector and the pollution created to provide enough petrol or diesel for internal combustion auto-mobiles into account.

That is why the JASANCAR project, done with NAITEC and UPNA, was proposed to reduce the carbon footprint in the transport sector using three different yet complementary strategies.

On one hand, the amount of CO₂ produced in manufacturing processes in the transport sector can be reduced by developing new sustainable materials for manufacturing panels and parts for vehicle interiors made using bio-based composites reinforced with fibres of natural origin. On the other hand, CO₂ can be reduced by replacing materials and reducing weight, which subsequently lowers energy consumption, by manufacturing parts using novel technologies like long-fibre composite printing. It has also been proposed to use the movement of the vehicle to capture the CO₂ from the air used for things like ventilation/climate control by developing a system based on CO₂ adsorption. In addition, a life cycle  sustainability analysis (LCA) has been done of the processes and products developed in an effort to reduce environmental impact and improve the social aspects of the items developed to contribute to meeting the project’s overall sustainability goal.

The results obtained in the JASANCAR project have led to meeting the specific goals initially proposed:

• Selecting bio-based materials and reinforcement materials for composites of natural origin
• Manufacturing panel components using those bio-based materials
• Manufacturing high-strength parts and light-weight long-fibre composites using 3D techniques to replace interior and exterior elements of vehicles
• Characterisation and validation of the manufactured elements and comparison with elements currently used to corroborate their advantages in terms of CO₂ emissions
• Development of CO₂ adsorption systems to be incorporated into vehicles
• Analysis of the sustainability of the life cycle of the products and processes developed

The results obtained in the project have made it possible to present it at several international conferences, including SAMPE 2024, IPPT-TWINN 2024, XXIX CICAT 2024, Composites International Conference 2024, Design and Engineering Iberia. And several articles are in preparation to be published in 2025 – 2026.

As a final assessment of the project, the benefits of being able to work with different SINAI agents, which made it possible to find synergies that would not have been created otherwise, should be highlighted. In particular, in this project the relationship was fluid and constructive and was valued very highly by both parties, UPNA-NAITEC.