UltrA compact, LIghtweiGht & efficient Heat and mass Transfer (ALIGHT)

超紧凑、轻量

• 批准号: 10045872
• 金额: $ 6.33万
• 依托单位: INTEGRATED HEAT EXCHANGE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10045872
• 关键词: UltrA; compact; LIghtweiGht; efficient; Heat

Project ALIGHT will undertake a feasibility study of the development of new, innovative technologies for a range of small energy systems with much greater commercial and carbon-saving potential than can be achieved with incumbent technologies. The systems are: micro-turbine generators (<100 kWe), waste heat to power systems and heat pumps using supercritical CO2 (SCCO2) as the working fluid, and absorption coolers. They have many potentially very large markets: decentralised power, CHP and tri-generation; off-grid power systems such as generators for isolated mobile phone towers; bottoming power cycles for solid oxide fuel cells; heat pumps to replace gas boilers in domestic and commercial buildings; commercial and industrial cooling; cooling for refrigerated transport and electric vehicles, and many others.These systems share two crucial characteristics: they depend on two or more heat exchangers; and the size, weight, cost and low effectiveness of the heat exchanger technologies presently used severely limits their cost effectiveness and commercial viability in their potentially very large markets.The project focuses on the technical and financial feasibility of designing new, much smaller, lighter heat exchangers for these systems, enabled by metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3-D printing technology, and integrating them into single AM builds Recent experience in designing and building AM heat exchangers for high value, low volume aerospace and F1 applications shows that 40-80% reductions in size and weight can be achieved. However, the systems' lower value, higher volume target markets need even small, lighter, cheaper and more effective heat exchangers. So the project's specific focus is on assessing new, innovative AM heat transfer surfaces and architectures to provide additional 40-60% size/weight improvements over the present state of the AM art.

Project Olight将对一系列具有更大商业和储蓄潜力的小型能源系统的新创新技术的开发进行可行性研究，而现有技术可以实现。这些系统是：微型涡轮发电机（<100 kWe），用超临界二氧化碳（SCCO2）作为工作流体和吸收冷却器的电力系统和热泵。他们有许多潜在的大型市场：分散的电力，CHP和三生；离网电源系统，例如用于隔离手机塔的发电机；固体氧化物燃料电池的底部功率循环；热泵代替家庭和商业建筑中的燃气锅炉；商业和工业冷却；冷却冷藏运输和电动汽车以及许多其他系统。这些系统具有两个关键特征：它们取决于两个或更多的热交换器；热交换器技术目前使用的尺寸，重量，成本和低效率在其潜在的非常大的市场中严重限制了其成本效益和商业可行性。该项目着重于设计新的，更小，较小的热交换器的技术和财务可行性，这些系统为这些系统设计，并以金属添加剂（AM）或3-D打印技术为基础，并将其建立并建立并建立并建立并建立并建立并建立的，并将其建立为单一的经验，并将其建立为单位，并将其建立在其上，并将其建立在其上，并建立了该系统，并建立了该系统，并建立了该系统，并将其建立在效率体积航空航天和F1应用显示，可以实现40-80％的尺寸和重量减少。但是，系统的价值较低，较高的目标市场甚至需要小，更轻，更便宜，更有效的热交换器。因此，该项目的具体重点是评估新的，创新的AM传热表面和体系结构，以在AM ART的当前状态中提供40-60％的尺寸/权重改进。