Cool Efficiency in West Africa

西非的酷效率

• 批准号: 10042544
• 金额: $ 68.06万
• 依托单位: INCLUSIVE ENERGY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042544
• 关键词: Cool; Efficiency; West; Africa

Cooling infrastructure - fridges and freezers - are vital for commerce, home use and for preserving medication, vaccinations and food. Unlike many off-grid solar energy systems, cooling solutions must operate as close to 24/7 as possible to ensure there is little/no wastage and are therefore subject to 'over-specification', leading to high energy system costs. In addition, when using a solar system to power a fridge, there are multiple issues that can interrupt the power supply including faults on the solar, battery or load sides, tampering, incorrectly sized systems or low energy yield due to poor weather.This project brings together a consortium of companies that seek to solve these issues so that project partners Focus Energy and Koolboks can offer a higher quality and easier to manage cooling services for customers in West Africa. To do this, the project builds on Inclusive Energy's remote monitoring system, Cloud Solar, and will seek to develop data modelling and machine learning techniques with both the live data and meta-data to deliver insights to cooling service providers and their customers. As well as reacting to faults and issues that have already occurred, the project will investigate and develop a solution to provide predictive maintenance for a range of issues including predicting the end of life of the batteries and predicting probable system issues such as lack of energy availability.These issues can then be mitigated with sophisticated load shedding and controls via the Cloud Solar charge controller, along with alerts for the solar system owners and providers to advise on energy saving techniques. Therefore, the project proposes development of 3 parallel and integrated capabilities: (1) analyse, (2) forecast, (3) mitigate.Inclusive Energy will work with Koolboks and, Focus Energy, and their West African customers, to ensure that the insights are relevant and that the user interface is fit for purpose.

制冷基础设施-冰箱和冰柜-对于商业，家庭使用以及保存药物，疫苗和食品至关重要。与许多离网太阳能系统不同，冷却解决方案必须尽可能接近24/7运行，以确保很少/没有浪费，因此会受到“过度规范”的影响，导致能源系统成本高昂。此外，当使用太阳能系统为冰箱供电时，有多种问题可能会中断电源，包括太阳能、电池或负载侧的故障，篡改，该项目汇集了一个寻求解决这些问题的公司联盟，以便项目合作伙伴Focus Energy和Koolboks能够提供更高质量和更易于管理的系统。为西非客户提供制冷服务。为此，该项目建立在包容性能源的远程监控系统云太阳能的基础上，并将寻求利用实时数据和元数据开发数据建模和机器学习技术，为冷却服务提供商及其客户提供见解。除了对已经发生的故障和问题做出反应外，该项目还将调查和开发一种解决方案，为一系列问题提供预测性维护，包括预测电池寿命的结束和预测可能的系统问题，如缺乏能源可用性。然后，这些问题可以通过复杂的负载削减和通过Cloud Solar充电控制器的控制来缓解，沿着太阳能系统所有者和供应商的警报，以建议节能技术。因此，该项目建议开发3个并行和集成的能力：（1）分析，（2）预测，（3）缓解。包容性能源将与Koolboks和Focus Energy及其西非客户合作，以确保见解相关，用户界面适合目的。