Solar cooling of buildings using low emissivity transpired solar collectors and desiccant air conditioning technology

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The project involves the assessment of the technical and commercial feasibility of aninnovative low carbon solar cooling system. The system will feature the use of heat, frominnovative low emissivity transpired solar collectors, to regenerate the desiccant withindesiccant air conditioning technology (for which the heat for desiccant regeneration is theprincipal energy demand).Within the project we will investigate the market for air conditioning, analyse existing andemerging air conditioning technologies, assess the drivers of uptake of energy efficient airconditioning technology and consider the market potential for our innovative solar coolingidea.We will also develop an Excel based model for predicting the energy performance of lowemissivity transpired solar collectors used in conjunction with desiccant air conditioningtechnology for varying buildings with different air conditioning loads in a variety ofgeographic locations / climates.We plan also to develop a route map for industrial research, experimental development, finalproduct development and commercialisation of our innovative solar cooling system.