Analysis for Innovators Round 5: Phase 2 de minimis

第 5 轮创新者分析：第二阶段最低限度

• 批准号: 106032
• 金额: $ 1.14万
• 依托单位: OXFORD NANOSYSTEMS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106032
• 关键词: Analysis; Innovators; Round; Phase; de

Oxford nanoSystems Ltd (OnS) is a high-tech start-up located in Abingdon that has developed a unique coating technology to improve the efficiency of heat transfer. OnS was founded in 2012 and has spent the past 5 years developing nanoFLUX -- a nano-coating which dramatically improves the efficiency of two-phase heat-exchangers such as evaporators. Up to now, OnS has focused on the air conditioning and refrigeration markets, whose primary benchmark is to reduce the evaporator size to save environmentally damaging refrigerants and reduce production costs. Since our surface treatment can improve many different heat-transfer technologies we also branched out in other markets, i.e. electronic/ battery cooling and waste heat recovery. The world-wide thermal management market is huge (\> 9.6 B$) and of key interest to OnS.Looking into future applications Oxford nanoSystems acknowledges the EU's drive for higher energy efficiency in data centres. One of the largest problems is clearly the inefficiency of the cooling system. Improving electric cooling systems, for example in data centres or in electric cars is a main target when it comes to reaching the new climate goals as reaffirmed by the Katowice Climate Conference 2018. To reach those the whole electronic/battery unit needs to be more efficient to substantially expand their lifetime.In the last two years Oxford nanoSystems further improved their coating technology and developed MicroFlux, a pre-treatment of the heat exchanger surface preceding its coating with nanoFlux. In Innovate UK 133251 project 'MicroFlux' OnS successfully demonstrated micro-grooved surfaces which show extraordinary increases of heat transfer coeffiencies.OnS research team built various thermal test rigs to measure, among others, flow rates, the heat flux and efficiency rates. Our test rigs were used to determine durability and sustainability of our coatings. In this project Oxford nanoSystems seeks to get its testing facilities (thermal test rigs) validated by an independent organisation. To scale up our process from our very successful R&D environment to industrial scale, we need to take test protocol and standardisation of procedures to the next level.

牛津纳米系统有限公司（OnS）是一家位于阿宾顿的高科技初创企业，该公司开发了一种独特的涂层技术来提高传热效率。OnS成立于2012年，在过去的5年里一直致力于开发nanoFLUX——一种可以显著提高蒸发器等两相热交换器效率的纳米涂层。到目前为止，OnS专注于空调和制冷市场，其主要基准是减少蒸发器尺寸，以节省对环境有害的制冷剂并降低生产成本。由于我们的表面处理可以改善许多不同的传热技术，我们也扩展到其他市场，如电子/电池冷却和废热回收。全球热管理市场规模巨大（96亿美元），也是网络运营商的主要兴趣所在。展望未来的应用，牛津纳米系统公司承认欧盟在数据中心提高能源效率方面的努力。最大的问题之一显然是冷却系统的效率低下。改善数据中心或电动汽车的电力冷却系统是实现2018年卡托维兹气候会议重申的新气候目标的主要目标。为了达到这些目标，整个电子/电池单元需要更有效地延长其使用寿命。在过去的两年里，牛津纳米系统公司进一步改进了他们的涂层技术，并开发了MicroFlux，这是一种在热交换器表面涂覆纳米flux之前的预处理技术。在Innovate UK 133251项目中，“MicroFlux”成功地展示了微沟槽表面，其传热系数显着增加。OnS的研究团队建造了各种热测试平台，以测量流量、热流密度和效率等。我们的测试平台用于确定涂层的耐久性和可持续性。在这个项目中，牛津纳米系统公司试图让它的测试设备（热测试设备）得到一个独立组织的验证。为了将我们的流程从非常成功的研发环境扩展到工业规模，我们需要将测试协议和程序标准化提升到一个新的水平。