Delft - Cryostar

Organisation Name

Delft University of Tecnology

Acronym

DELFT

Country

Netherlands

Web site

tudelft.nl/en/

Description of the organisation

The Delft University of Technology (DELFT), founded in 1842 in Delft, Netherlands, as a Royal Academy to train civil engineers, counts today 8 different faculties and 2 research institutes.
This academic institute is widely recognized for its global impact, high academic standards and modern research in engineering, which made DELFT one of the leading technical universities in the world.
The university has about 27,000 students, more than 4,400 academic staff members and more than 2,800 employees in administrative roles.
The relationship with the European industrial ecosystem, including major players in the aerospace sector, made it a relevant partner in several projects.
The faculty of Aerospace Engineering, whose researchers are part of this project, is one of the largest, most multifaceted scientific communities focusing on aerospace and related areas (such as wind energy) in the world.

Role in the CRYOSTAR Project

Delft University of Technology is entitled to design the certification roadmap that will assess the crashworthiness of liquid hydrogen tanks in future green vehicles. This task includes the definition of new procedures and means of compliance for those risks that are not investigated for conventional configurations but that are raised by the integration of hydrogen tanks.
The partner also leads the digitalization process with the objective of developing the digital thread encompassing design and certification of hydrogen tanks.
This digital asset will serve both as a baseline for the scalability assessment of the outcomes obtained from Cryostar and as an industrial and research framework for different feasibility studies going from conceptual and preliminary design to virtual certification.

System designer