STTR Phase I: Nano-sphere Modified Fibers for Super Insulating Window Coverings

STTR 第一阶段：用于超级隔热窗帘的纳米球改性纤维

• 批准号: 0930299
• 负责人: John Slagter
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: The Mackinac Technology Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0930299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Nano; sphere; Modified

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will demonstrate the effectiveness of a new window insulation technology with thermal performance properties comparable to a well insulated wall. In the United States, buildings account for more than 40% of total energy consumption. Because windows are between 20-40% of the vertical surface area of an average building, they consume 30-60% of heating and cooling energy, representing an annual impact of more than 4.1 quadrillion BTU of primary energy, costing building owners over $40 billion/year. Our innovation is to use nanometer sized spherically shaped silica particles attached to glass fibers to create an insulation material with extremely small points of contact that can be used to make thin vacuum insulation panels. This Phase I project will determine the feasibility of incorporating these nanoparticle-modified fibers into innovative Multilayer Vacuum Insulation Panels to achieve target thermal insulation properties in a commercially viable, dynamic window covering. This technology will exceed the US DOE's target window insulation properties in a commercially viable product that will serve as a cost effective solution for net-zero energy new construction as well as a retrofit product to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings.By facilitating the development and commercialization of a product that will substantially reduce unwanted heat transfer through fenestration, the research in this Phase I STTR project will contribute a partial solution to global energy and environmental challenges. The development of new core materials for vacuum insulation panels offers enormous opportunities for the improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings while also contributing a substantial financial savings over time. The educational impact of this research will be significant on two levels: 1) a substantial amount of the work will be performed by students under the direct supervision of recognized experts and 2) the research will significantly advance the state of the art in thermal insulation technology.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个小型企业技术转让第一阶段项目将展示一种新的窗户隔热技术的有效性，其热性能可与隔热良好的墙壁相媲美。在美国，建筑能耗占总能耗的40%以上。由于窗户占平均建筑垂直面积的20-40%，它们消耗30-60%的供暖和制冷能源，每年影响超过4.1千万亿英热单位（BTU）的一次能源，使建筑业主每年损失超过400亿美元。我们的创新是将纳米大小的球形二氧化硅颗粒附着在玻璃纤维上，创造出一种具有极小接触点的绝缘材料，可以用来制作薄的真空绝缘板。该第一阶段项目将确定将这些纳米颗粒改性纤维纳入创新多层真空隔热板的可行性，从而在商业上可行的动态窗罩中实现目标隔热性能。这项技术将在商业上可行的产品中超过美国能源部的目标窗户隔热性能，将作为零能耗新建筑的成本效益解决方案，以及提高现有建筑能源效率的改造产品。通过促进产品的开发和商业化，该产品将大大减少通过开窗产生的不必要的热量传递，第一阶段STTR项目的研究将为全球能源和环境挑战提供部分解决方案。真空隔热板新芯材的开发为提高建筑的能源效率提供了巨大的机会，同时也为节省大量资金做出了贡献。这项研究的教育影响将在两个层面上显著：1)大量的工作将由学生在公认专家的直接监督下完成；2)这项研究将显著推进隔热技术的最新发展。