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Press material

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• TOPGEAR Logo

• TOPGEAR One Pager

• TOPGEAR Project Presentation

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Presentations of LCA-workshop (14.03.2024, Orbassano)

“Challenges and good practices for carbon footprint identification in very early development stages of automotive products”

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• Hanno Bachler (Global R&D Coordinator/Research & Technology Development, AVL)

       "What are the current and future regulatory requirements of carbon footprint identification for companies?"

 

• Sophie Richet (Global Leader of LCA and Carbon Footprint, Stellantis)

       "LCA & Ecodesign in innovation stages"

 

•  Dr.-Ing. Matthias Harsch (Managing Director, LCS Life Cycle Simulation GmbH)

       "Good practices for companies to significantly reduce their carbon footprint"

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       "Use phase in LCA"

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• M.Sc. Gonsalves Grünert (Head of Sustainable Manufacturing, RWTH University)

       "How can the use phase be taken into account?"

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• M.Sc. Élise Monnier (Eco-innovation, Sustainability & LCA /Research Engineer, CEA-Liten)

      "What are current research questions for the further development of LCA to assess future systems?"

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Presentation of LCA-workshop (05.11.2024, Aachen)

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• "Good Practices for Companies Creating a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Products in the R&D phase"       

        Marcel Egger (i2m) & Johannes Lövenich (WZL)​

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Presentations of the final workshop (08.05.2025, Aachen)

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• Roberto Elvira (SIDENOR), "General Overview of the TOPGEAR project"

• Christof Ziegler, "LPC and Water Spray Quenching"

• Adriano Lateana (CRF), "Fatigue testing of the 4 studied steels and surface hardening technologies"

• Johannes Lövenich, (WZL), "Development of a gear test rig for very high speeds (12000 rpm)"

• Johannes Lövenich, (WZL), "Comparison of gear performance at very high speeds of reference and alternative technologies"

• Marcel Egger (I2M), "Life Cycle Assessment -Results"

• Adreano Lateana (CRF), "Economic analysis and possibilities of application to BEV gearboxes"

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Results for download

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• D1   Metallurgical assessment of the manufactured steels

• D2   Evaluation of the hot forgeability

• D3   Machinability assessment of the steels previous to the surface hardening treatment

• D4   Collection of the main data related to the process parameters employed in the conventional carburizing operation

• D5   Compilation of the optimum parameters for each of the considered alternative surface hardening operations

• D6   Characterization of the hardened layer obtained with each surface hardening treatment and steel variant

• D7   Evaluation of the performance of the surface hardened steels in fatigue and tribological tests

• D8   Assessment of the fatigue behaviour of the chosen steels in tests reproducing the stresses applied on gears loaded          in both teeth sides

• D9   Evaluation of the teeth gears distortions and study of the performance of gears working at similar conditions to                 those of future HEV/EV gears

• D10 Integral life cycle assessment

• D11 Benefits provided by the alternative manufacturing routes

• D12 Guidelines for the industrial implementation of the project results

• D13 Results exploitation plan

• D14 Project results publication

• D15 Comprehensive overview of the project