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Xavier BENOITTechnics, Innovation & Quality Vice-President

Centum Adeneo

4, chemin du Ruisseau

69134 Ecully, France

+33 680 589 466

xbenoit@centumadetel.com

3 June 2021

Horizon Europe Brokerage

Event on Energy - 4 Motors

for Europe

2 2FAST FACTS

30Years exp.

€ 40MRevenues

PHD, Engineers& Technicians

470Employees

6 locations 4 in France 1 in Belgium 1 in India)

70% of revenueInnovation and R&T

International group Europe Asia North Am.)

$ 150MAnnual Revenue

Including 630designers

2050Employees

French ETIHigh contribution

in 4 poles, 2 clusters & Carnot

3 3

CONCEPTUALIZE

SPECIFYDESIGN

INDUSTRIALIZATION

PROTOTYPE &

VERIFY

PILOT

PRODUCTIONMASS

PRODUCTION

AFTER MARKET

LIFECYCLE

SUPPORT

OUR ACTIVITIES

Build To Specification (BTS) 30 %

Engineering Services 70 %

MARKET

16 %

MEDICAL

20 %

INDUSTRIAL & ENERGYAERO & DEFENSE

35 %

TRANSPORT

32 %

CONTRACTING SCHEME

4 4SKILLS AREA

Electronics

Wireless

Digital

Analog

PowerConversion

Mechanics 0/1

FPGA

EmbeddedSoftware

Thermal

analysis

Casing

Harnesses

eCAD

Test Means

Production

Simulator

HIL

Acquisition

System

Big Test

System

RAMS

Industrializ.

470+ Engineers Incl. PhD & Experts

Industrial

Perf.

Sales &

Business

Supply

Chain

5 5OUR MISSION IN

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Ideas

Norms

Compliance

Value

Sustainable

product

R&D partners

Market partners

Understanding the innovation value proposition,

turning it into a competitive advantage for market

competition.

R&D collaborative project experience:

• 5 R&D collaborative project in progress

• Over 20 R&D collaborative projects

ended

• European, national, regional funding's

• Coordinator or partner

• 2 to 50 partners

• TRL4 to TRL7

• 500 k€ to 1.7M€ budget for our own

6 6

Inverter50 kW to 2.5MW

200kWMiniGrid planGrid forming

30kW SMI – SiC

EV charger35kW-700Wh

70KgLi-Ion techno.

DAL A BMSLi-Ion techno.SSPC breaker

SIL2 BMSLIC techno.

R&D IN ACTION !

SiC MOSFETSi power IGBT

InductorInductor

SiC driver

Resonate Coil

Heatsink

Control

Board unit

BMS &

Battery/Supercap

module

133kW-900V Si – SiC

Catenaryless

7 7Our contribution

More Electrical world

• Airplane• Car, trucks, bus & railway• Naval, waterborne transport• Construction equipment• Power plan & smartGrid

CLIMATE, ENERGY & MOBILITY

Hydrogen based mobilityTechnology integration

More efficient

• Health monitoring• Efficiency of power converter• 2nd life application for batteries• Weight & volume reduction • HVDC distribution• Braking energy recovery

FFCU: Fuel Cell Control Unit •Fuel Cell output to HVDC DC/DC converter •

Fuel Cell output energy buffer •

BMS for battery, supercap pack •Solid-state breaker for storage pack •

HV Energy storage cabinet •High power/high eff. motor drive •

Cluster 5 challenge – our ideas