Circular Economy Based Uninterruptible Power Supply Battery System for Greener and Sustainable Remote Working

基于循环经济的不间断电源电池系统，实现更绿色、可持续的远程工作

• 批准号: 85186
• 金额: $ 12.74万
• 依托单位: ALP TECHNOLOGIES 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=85186
• 关键词: Circular; Economy; Based; Uninterruptible; Power

The internet's energy and carbon footprints are estimated to exceed those of air travel with around 1.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year produced in the manufacture and running of digital technologies (climatecare.org and BBC 2020). Computers and network hardware such as data centres must be powered and cooled drawing electricity from non-renewable fuel sources.During the height of COVID19 lockdown, UK's internet usage surges to record levels. Time spent online due to working from home is up by 67% compared with pre-lockdown usage (Opinium April 2020 survey). Remote online work has significantly increased the energy and associated carbon footprint that power the internet and the equipment that support it such as the data centres and server networks at companies and offices that enable remote working.A promising solution to address this problem is to transform an idle backup energy storage device into an asset with an investment return and carbon savings potential.UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply - systems are commonly used in commercial buildings and industries to protect hardware such as computers, data centers, telecommunication equipment or other electrical equipment in case there are any unexpected power disruptions that could cause injuries, fatalities, serious business disruption or data loss. UPS can be used as energy storage systems additionally to their primary use in order to generate additional benefits to their users.Alp has developed a utility scale smart battery system called BRIC which reduces total system cost by over 30% by using smarter electronics and AI. With environmental sustainability and circular economy principles in mind, BRIC is designed and tested to utilize new or second-life cells and substantially increase useful life.Our game changing innovations accomplish this by an electronic design, AI and software that proactively monitor and manage the battery at the individual cell level to anticipate issues before they can escalate. Combined, these solutions will not only optimise performance and prolongs useful life but improve safety while simplifying maintenance, servicing or replacement. These unique features give the BRIC the ability to better handle older and second-life cells.This project will involve research and development to improve the server level design (Mega-BRIC) and demonstrate that the tech and logic design can meet the requirements of a UPS system with regards to safety, efficiency and availability of the system.

据估计，互联网的能源和碳足迹超过了航空旅行的能源和碳足迹，每年在数字技术的制造和运行中每年产生的温室气体排放约为17亿吨（ClimateCare.org和BBC 2020）。计算机和网络硬件（例如数据中心）必须从不可再生的燃料来源供电和冷却。与锁骨前使用相比，由于在家工作而花费的时间增加了67％（2020年4月的调查）。 Remote online work has significantly increased the energy and associated carbon footprint that power the internet and the equipment that support it such as the data centres and server networks at companies and offices that enable remote working.A promising solution to address this problem is to transform an idle backup energy storage device into an asset with an investment return and carbon savings potential.UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply - systems are commonly used in commercial buildings and industries to protect hardware such as computers, data centers,电信设备或其他电气设备，以防发生任何意外的电源中断，可能造成伤害，死亡，严重的业务中断或数据丢失。 UPS还可以用作其主要用途的储能系统，以便为其用户带来额外的好处。Alp已开发了一种名为BRIC的实用程序尺度智能电池系统，该系统通过使用Smarter Electronics和AI，将总系统成本降低了30％以上。考虑到环境可持续性和循环经济原则，金砖四国经过设计和测试，以利用新的或第二寿命的细胞，并大大提高使用寿命。我们的游戏改变创新通过电子设计，AI和软件来实现这一目标，以主动监控和管理单个单元格的电池电池，以预测它们在升级之前。结合在一起，这些解决方案不仅可以优化性能并延长用途寿命，还可以改善安全性，同时简化维护，维修或替换。这些独特的功能使金砖四国有能力更好地处理较旧的和第二寿命。该项目将涉及改进服务器级别设计（Mega-Bric）的研发，并证明技术和逻辑设计可以满足UPS系统的要求，以确保系统的安全性，效率和可用性。