ELIPS (Enhanced Liquid Immersion Power Systems) is a design-for-manufacture project aiming to build a UK supply-chain to deliver immersion and GaN-based technology across the power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) sectors.
Bringing together Supply Design, Custom Interconnect, GSPK Circuits, Iceotope Technologies and CSA Catapult, the project aims to create a collaborative value-chain capable of delivering power modules, bespoke immersion components and sub-assemblies, services and IP for the future.
As well as addressing challenges in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy sectors, the ELIPS project will firstly focus on energy saving systems for data centres.
Data centres use a huge amount of energy to continuously run and to prevent the equipment from overheating. It is estimated that data centres account for around 1% of all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
The project will look to develop immersion-cooled power modules for data centre applications that will support sustainable growth in IoT, smart cities and industrial automation.
