EFRI-SEED: Solar Optics-based Active Pasteurization (SOAP) for Greywater Reuse and Integrated Thermal (GRIT) Building Control

EFRI-SEED项目的目标是产生变革性的科学，为下一代可持续建筑技术以及微光学和流体网络创新的设计带来意想不到的机会。肥皂砂砾建筑控制系统将构成第一个用于灰水消毒的建筑系统，并结合太阳能的储热和能源管理。研究人员的目标是建立基于微光学的选择光和热流传输/传导的新技术，以取代目前部署更厚、更重且往往昂贵的机械透镜系统的研究开发。通过将受生物启发的光子学和光流体学技术的进步整合到建筑系统中，可以实现减少和管理水和能源消耗的新门槛。同样，从肥皂砂砾建筑控制中获得的知识将为土木工程和生物工程界提供基于微光学技术的宝贵性能标准，用于集成太阳能热控制和消毒。这项研究的跨学科性质将有助于扩大受益者的范围，同时表明，针对可持续建筑模型的新的跨学科合作可以通过未经考虑的行动规模加速开发节能建筑技术。这项研究的成功完成将促进全国范围内对节能集成建筑系统的一些研究。这项研究将有助于为加州大学伯克利分校建筑学本科课程新修的仿生学/可持续建筑专业开发课程。下一代可持续建筑的主题对更年轻的学生和代表不足的少数族裔很有吸引力，包括K12，他们将通过与建筑师汤姆·麦基格合作的暑期项目参与这项提案，他是加州一家非营利性教育机构BioDreamMachine的主任，致力于将生物灵感设计的好处带到K12公共教育中。2010财年EFRI-SEED主题支持这个项目，由美国国家科学基金会(NSF)工程(ENG)、数学和物理科学(MPS)和社会、行为和经济科学(SBE)以及计算机与AMP的理事会赞助；信息科学和工程与美国能源部(DOE)和美国环境保护局(EPA)合作。

The objective of this EFRI-SEED project is to produce transformative science with unforeseen opportunities for the design of next-generation sustainable building technologies, as well as, of micro optics and fluids networks innovation. SOAP GRIT Building Control will constitute the first building system for greywater disinfection coupled with thermal storage and energy management from solar energy. The researchers aim to establish new technologies for selection of light and heat flow transmission/conduction based on microoptics that can supplant current research developments that deploy thicker, heavier and often pricey mechanical lens systems. By integrating advances in biologically-inspired photonics and optofluidics technologies from bioengineering for light control and waste processing at microscale into buildings systems, new thresholds of water and energy expenditure reduction and management can be accomplished. Likewise, the knowledge obtained from SOAP GRIT Building Control will provide the civil and bioengineering community with valuable performance criteria of micro-optics based technology for integrating thermal control and disinfection derived from solar energy. The interdisciplinary nature of this research will contribute to widen the scope of beneficiaries while demonstrating that new interdisciplinary collaborations for sustainable architecture models can accelerate the development of energy efficient building technologies through unconsidered scales of action. The successful completion of this research will stimulate a number of studies of energy efficient integrated building systems nation-wide. This research will contribute to develop courses for the new minor in biomimicry/sustainable architecture at UC Berkeley's architecture undergraduate program. The topic of next-generation sustainable architecture is attractive to younger students and underrepresented minorities, including K12, which will be involved in this proposal through a summer program in collaboration with architect Tom McKeag, director of BioDreamMachine, a California non-profit educational institution dedicated to bringing the benefits of bio-inspired design to K12 public education.The FY 2010 EFRI-SEED Topic that supports this project was sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorates for Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Computer & Information Science and Engineering in collaboration with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).