SBIR Phase I: Interface for connecting high temperature solar collectors to legacy thermal systems

SBIR 第一阶段：用于将高温太阳能集热器连接到传统热系统的接口

• 批准号: 1747222
• 负责人: Arun Gupta
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Skyven Technologies
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747222&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Interface; connecting; temperature

This SBIR Phase I Project will enable rural areas of the United States and developing nations to leapfrog the need to build natural gas distribution infrastructure. High temperature heat is required to manufacture and process many day-to-day items, including food, clothing, and more. In regions of the world that do not have natural gas infrastructure, factories produce heat by burning petroleum-based fuel - fuel that must be trucked on-site. It gets expensive. This project will develop technology to capture high temperature heat directly from the sun at significantly lower costs than customers are already paying for fuel. It has the potential to spur economic development in rural areas in the US and other under-developed regions around the world by improving access and reducing the cost of high-temperature heat.This project will develop plug-and-play interfaces and techniques to connect advanced new fuel-less boiler technologies to existing / legacy thermal systems in commercial and industrial facilities. Current techniques require costly engineering and are prone to failure, forming a key barrier to the adoption of new fuel-less heat sources. This project will develop modular, scalable, and robust techniques to combine fuel-less boilers powered by the sun with traditional boilers powered by fossil fuels. It will include development and testing of both control systems and thermal balance-of-systems. The goal of the project will be to demonstrate integration of an advanced renewable heat source on a live industrial facility. This work is expected to reduce the cost of deploying such technology by 50% or more.

SBIR 第一阶段项目将使美国农村地区和发展中国家超越建设天然气分配基础设施的需求。制造和加工许多日常物品需要高温热量，包括食品、衣服等。在世界上没有天然气基础设施的地区，工厂通过燃烧石油基燃料（必须在现场用卡车运输的燃料）来产生热量。它变得昂贵。该项目将开发直接从太阳获取高温热量的技术，其成本显着低于客户已经支付的燃料费用。它有潜力通过改善获取和降低高温热能成本来刺激美国农村地区和世界其他欠发达地区的经济发展。该项目将开发即插即用的接口和技术，将先进的新型无燃料锅炉技术连接到商业和工业设施中现有/传统的热系统。目前的技术需要成本高昂的工程并且容易出现故障，这构成了采用新型无燃料热源的主要障碍。该项目将开发模块化、可扩展且稳健的技术，将太阳能驱动的无燃料锅炉与化石燃料驱动的传统锅炉结合起来。它将包括控制系统和系统热平衡的开发和测试。该项目的目标是展示先进的可再生热源在实际工业设施上的集成。这项工作预计将使部署此类技术的成本降低 50% 或更多。