Development of Futraheat’s novel Greamsteam high temperature heat pump pre-production product

开发 Futraheat 的新型 Greamsteam 高温热泵预生产产品

• 批准号: 10061173
• 金额: $ 87.65万
• 依托单位: FUTRAHEAT LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Investment Accelerator
• 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=10061173
• 关键词: Development; Futraheat; novel; Greamsteam; temperature

Futraheat is developing a high temperature heat pump product for industrial heat decarbonisation based upon its novel TurboClaw compressor technology. A turbo-compressor re-defined; TurboClaw's low-speed operation yields engineering, manufacturing and operational cost benefits which promise to deliver the most cost-effective high temperature heat pump solutions to industry.To date, Futraheat has developed a 300kWt prototype-demonstrator to validate the novel application of TurboClaw as a high temperature heat pump compressor. The demonstrator successfully applies a single-stage (of compression) TurboClaw compressor to deliver a 30C temperature lift over the boiling point, but has not been designed for production and adopts conventional oiled bearings where only an oil-free solution will deliver TurboClaw's advantages in full to end users.This project will extend temperature lift to 60C with a two-stage TurboClaw design, opening up the addressable market; incorporate magnetic bearings for an oil-free solution; and productionise the solution through investigating and developing the optimal production methodology and processes to support cost-down and scaling ambitions.The project's key output will be a pre-production, minimum viable product (MVP), ready for piloting in industry and subsequent sales production.

Futraheat正在开发一种基于其新型TurboClaw压缩机技术的用于工业热脱碳的高温热泵产品。涡轮压气机的重新定义TurboClaw的低速运行产生了工程、制造和运营成本优势，有望为工业提供最具成本效益的高温热泵解决方案。迄今为止，Futraheat已经开发出一台300千瓦的原型演示器，以验证TurboClaw作为高温热泵压缩机的新应用。演示器成功地应用了单级（压缩）TurboClaw压缩机，提供超过沸点30 ℃的温度提升，但尚未设计用于生产，并采用传统的含油轴承，只有无油解决方案才能将TurboClaw的优势充分发挥给最终用户。该项目将通过两级TurboClaw设计将温度提升到60 ℃，打开可寻址市场;通过研究和开发最佳的生产方法和工艺来实现解决方案的生产化，以支持降低成本和扩大规模的目标。该项目的主要产出将是一个预生产的最小可行产品（MVP），为工业试验和后续的销售生产做好准备。