Temperature responsive shading solution for greenhouse climate control

用于温室气候控制的温度响应遮阳解决方案

• 批准号: 10053585
• 金额: $ 43.02万
• 依托单位: ALBOTHERM 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=10053585
• 关键词: Temperature; responsive; shading; solution; greenhouse

The world needs to produce 50% more food by 2050 to feed a population that will reach nearly 10 billion in this time. Meanwhile arable land has decreased by 30% in the last 40 years due to the effects of urbanisation and climate change. It is essential that we increase the productivity of the arable land we have available to ensure future food security for our population.At Albotherm, we are developing greenhouse coatings that reversibly transition from transparent to white to shade crops in hot weather, allowing internal temperature regulation without electrical input. Our technology can increase light levels compared to standard shading, giving an estimated yield increase of up to 25%. For the UK this would mean up to 578,200 tonnes of extra food produced each year.Moreover, the use of fans in cooling UK greenhouses accounts for 235 million kWh of energy each year, which equates to roughly 55,000 tonnes of CO2 emitted \[4,6\]. Our technology has the potential to decrease the use of fans by 81%, saving 44,500 tonnes of CO2 and helping the horticultural industry's shift towards net-zero emissions.This is a technical feasibility project which will take our existing technology and develop a specific, customisable product for application in commercial greenhouses.Our current innovation is a coating that changes from transparent to reflective-white when heated, resulting in temperature-dependent shading. Our core IP is an active ingredient, that is added to transparent water-based coatings, to achieve reversible opacity at an engineerable transition temperature.This project will allow us to develop this prototype into a market-ready product that is gradually shading, durable and customisable to the specific heat and light requirements for optimal growth of each crop in order to improve crop yields.With these improvements to our first-generation system, we will then be able to quantify our coatings performance and durability in commercial greenhouses with our partners Vitacress, a herb producer in the UK and Flavour Fresh a berry and tomato grower in the UK. During this project, we will also collaborate with our partners Pilkington to test the durability and scale-up application capabilities for product trials.

到2050年，全世界需要生产50％的食物，以养活这次将近100亿的人口。同时，由于城市化和气候变化的影响，在过去40年中，可耕地减少了30％。至关重要的是，我们必须提高可耕地的生产率，以确保人口的未来粮食安全。在陈词滥调中，我们正在开发温室涂料，这些温室涂料可在炎热的天气下可逆地从透明到白色到白色的作物，从而无需电气输入，从而可以进行内部温度调节。与标准阴影相比，我们的技术可以提高光水平，估计的产量提高高达25％。对于英国来说，这意味着每年产生的额外食品多达578,200吨。此外，在冷却英国温室中使用风扇每年的能源占23500万千瓦时，这相当于发射的大约55,000吨二氧化碳\ [4,6 \]。我们的技术有可能将风扇的使用降低81％，节省了44,500吨的二氧化碳，并帮助园艺行业向Net-Net-Zero排放的转变。这是一个技术可行性项目，它将采用我们现有的技术并开发一种特定的，可自定义的产品，用于在商业温室中的应用。当前的创新是从偶然的造成的，是一种偶然的造成的旋转式，可以在旋转范围内进行反射式呈现，以反射的效率进行变化，以进行反射效果。 Our core IP is an active ingredient, that is added to transparent water-based coatings, to achieve reversible opacity at an engineerable transition temperature.This project will allow us to develop this prototype into a market-ready product that is gradually shading, durable and customisable to the specific heat and light requirements for optimal growth of each crop in order to improve crop yields.With these improvements to our first-generation system, we will then be able to quantify our coatings performance and durability in商业温室与我们的合作伙伴Vitacress，英国的草药生产商，在英国味道新鲜的浆果和番茄种植者。在此项目中，我们还将与Pilkington合作伙伴合作测试产品试验的耐用性和扩展应用功能。