Optical Transfer of Heat with Electrical and Light Output (OTHELLO)

具有电和光输出的光学热传递 (OTHELLO)

• 批准号: 104002
• 金额: $ 37.36万
• 依托单位: PHOTON ENGINEERS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104002
• 关键词: Optical; Transfer; Heat; Electrical; Light

With demand for clean, reliable and affordable energy rapidly growing, the ability to apply the solar spectrum wherever sunlight is available becomes ever more important. By combining valuable unexploited strengths of thin film Photovoltaics (PV) and solar optics we co-generate electricity and high temperature heat with the part of the spectrum not used by PV, without sacrificing the level of electricity generation for PV alone, unlike existing products. The optics generates high enough temperatures to efficiently drive air conditioning, refrigeration, and even cooking. As the thermal part can be fabricated at little extra cost this approach is economic even without the benefits of increasing useful energy per square metre. High-rise buildings are particularly challenging in this respect but our system can be designed for economic production of energy on walls receiving direct sunlight. This makes it possible to provide cooling in Summer, heating in winter and refrigeration at any time, allowing the panels to be sized for maximum load and offering these services at the point where they are needed in the building, a space efficient and city friendly solution wherever the markets can respond to the relentless demand for better living standards.

随着对清洁、可靠和负担得起的能源的需求迅速增长，在阳光充足的地方应用太阳光谱的能力变得越来越重要。与现有产品不同，通过结合薄膜光伏（PV）和太阳能光学的宝贵未开发优势，我们可以与PV未使用的部分光谱共同发电和高温热量，而不会牺牲单独的PV发电水平。光学器件产生足够高的温度，以有效地驱动空调，制冷，甚至烹饪。由于热部件可以以很少的额外成本制造，因此即使没有增加每平方米有用能量的好处，这种方法也是经济的。高层建筑在这方面特别具有挑战性，但我们的系统可以设计成在接受阳光直射的墙壁上经济地生产能源。这使得它可以在夏季提供制冷，冬季供暖和制冷在任何时候，允许面板的大小为最大负载，并提供这些服务的点，他们需要在建筑物中，一个空间效率和城市友好的解决方案，只要市场可以响应对更好的生活水平的不懈需求。