tp-seal® and bio-tpseal® rotomoulding technologies - ARMO 2012

TP-SEAL® AND BIO-TPSEAL®
ROTOMOULDING TECHNOLOGIES:
BIO-­‐CORP/PR.12.030
THE “TOTAL CAR CONCEPT”.
ARMO 2012
Lyon October 1, 2012
Eric Maziers.
Total Research & Technology Feluy - Belgium.

TOTAL STATISTICS
(KEY FIGURES FOR 2011)
Strong
international presence
over 130
countries
Over
700
industrial sites
96,104
employees
Sales
184.7
billion euro
Net income
11.4
billion euro
+16%
+11%
2012
investment
budget
24
billion dollars
R&D
investments
7billion dollars
between 2010 and
2015
2
5 th
international
oil and gas
company

A MAJOR OIL COMPANY
WITH AN INTEGRATED MODEL
Oil and gas
output
Oil
Refining
Gas
Trading
Making the link
between our output
and our processing
sites and providing a
supply to our
customers
Petroleum products
Petrochemicals
Marketing
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IAA FRANKFURT SEPTEMBER 2011.

- Reference, date, place
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� Car Manufacturers, like their clients, are under pressure. Reducing
CO2 emissions is turning into a commercial argument, but despite
efforts to promote public transport, sustainable urban mobility will
not be able to disregard the car completely.
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� Migration towards towns ans cities requires a greater ability to adapt
to changing priorities wich goes beyond just shared transport.
� Even, if it is just a start; some towns and cities are looking to
develop electrical car hire services in addition to public transport.
� The growth in the number of vehicules on the road is felt to be
unavoidable, it is estimated to be more than 1.4 billion vehicles by
2030.
� This is an opportunity to turn this challenge into an advantage.

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� The electrical car demonstrates that the reduced weight of the city
car will be the key to its success; lightweight construction materials
will be vital to compensate for the weight of the batteries.
� Lower consumption means less pollution.
Ø� With BIO-TPSeal®, Total’s Refining and Chemicals Division has
developed a lightweight robust structure for the car chassis
production which is a contributing factor making the city car a
sustainable part of mobility.
Ø� It reduces dependence on fossil sources and non –renewable
materials and the pollution encounterd in manufacturing.
� It helps to manage the end of life a city cars.

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF VEHICLES:
• The environmental impact of classical vehicles is distributed equally
between the manufacturing, use and end of life phases of their lifecycles (*)
• The use of rotomolding process combined to BIO-TPSeal® technology
allows to reduce the impact at each stage of vehicle life.
Impact during
production
Much less number of elements
No welding
Lower weight
(*) : JL Thuliez, Domteknika, Persico Nembro June 20th, 2012
Impact of use
Less CO 2 emissions
Less maintance
Impact of
disposal
More recycling possibilities

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TOTAL CONCEPT CAR: FULLY DESIGNED AND PRODUCED
BY TOTAL R&D CENTERS.

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TOTAL CONCEPT CAR: FRONT PART TOOLING (PRODUCED BY PERSICO) FOR
CONVENTIONAL ROTOMOULDING MACHINES.

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POLYOLEFIN PRODUCTS: INNOVATION.
Technological Evolution
REVOLUTION
breakthrough
innovation
EVOLUTION
incremental
innovation
LDPE
Linear PE/PP
Cr, Z-N
Gas phase
Metallocene
Bimodal
Materials Science
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
- Nano
- Bio
- Organic
- Smart
Futerro’s
PLA
Rotomolding resins:
-M3581UV
-M4041UV
-M3671

TP-SEAL® AND BIOTPSEAL® ROTOMOULDING TECHNOLOGIES:
BASED ON TOTAL METALLOCENE POLYOLEFINS (LUMICENE®
PRODUCT RANGE).
• skin/skin è� mPE / PA11
• Low fuel permeation
Fuel tanks
(CARB/EPA – USA)
(courtesy Elkamet Germany)
TP-SEAL® BioTPSeal®
• Skin/foam/skin è� mPE / mPE / mPE
• Boats
• Structural parts
• Buoys
(courtesy Sealver (France)
• mPE-PLA alloys
• Monolayers
• Multilayers
• Skin/foam/skin,
• Skin/skin
• Structural parts.
• Low warpage parts.
• Very high stiffness parts
• Surface properties
• Paintable parts
• Design parts

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TP-SEAL® OR BIO-TPSEAL® FOR SKIN/FOAM/SKIN
STRUCTURES.
Conventional
polyolefin structure
TP-SEAL® or Bio-TPSeal®
5 meters/ 330 kgs part
(courtesy Dynamic rotomolding -France)

• For this car body the overall plastic weight is only 85 kg… and only two parts
(w/o any welding) ready to be assembly just after rotomolding !
BIO-TPSeal®
Skin/foam/skin structures
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TPSeal®

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� Skin/foam/skin structures allow:
– very high impact / stiffness balance.
q� See this test: a weight of 2000 kgs was applied five times to the Total Car
Concept Front part:
� No crack.
� Limited deformation.
q� Crash tests started by end 2011 and are still under progress:

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TP-SEAL® OR BIO-TPSEAL® ?
Ø� TP-SEAL® è� Polyolefin structures.
� Coloured compounds.
Ø� BIO-TPSeal® è� Polyolefin & PLA structures, this will bring:
Ø� Biosourced content in the structure è� sustainability.
� Surface properties improvements: painting possibilities (PLA is a polar material)
or coloured compounds.
� Surface gloss improvement.
� Stiffness improvement.
� Shrinkage/warpage improvements.
� New multilayer structures:
� Skin/skin : PLA/mPE
� mPE/ PLA filled PU Foam

BIO-TPSEAL® POSSIBILITIES:
• Painted front parts (skin/skin): PLA /mPE BIO-TPSeal®
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BIO-TPSEAL® POSSIBILITIES:

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WEATHERING: OUTDOOR APPLICATIONS.
Ø� TP-SEAL® and BIO-TPSeal® resins are UV protected, with a target at : >
UV10.
� It is highly recommended to assess weathering properties on final parts:
� To check the fit to the application (Weathering specifications).
� To check the effect of pigments for coloured compounds.
� To check the effect of paints.
Ø� Total invested in a new « climate chamber » to make some testing on
rotomoulded parts (under progress): TP-SEAL® and BIO-TPSeal®
samples.
Ø� + 10 to + 90 °C
� 10 to 90 % HR
� Total has started some outdoor Weathering in Florida & Arizona (USA) on
rotomoulded parts: TP-SEAL® and BIO-TPSeal® samples.

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CONCLUSIONS:
Ø� The Rotomolding process combined with TP-SEAL® or BIO-TPSeal ®
technologies is now offering an amazing opportunity to develop city cars in
a sustainable approach.
� Total will act globally to suppport this business.
� Of particular interest was the example of the VSV (Viability Service Vehicle)
developed by Noremat. The VSV utility vehicle is used for mowing, pruning,
collecting off-cuts, grinding up branches, gritting.
� Other applications are under development : desing, boats , structural parts,
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Thank You !!
TOTAL
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infringement.
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