Cool Run: Hubl's solution to multi-temperature last mile delivery

Cool Run：Hubl 的多温度最后一英里交付解决方案

• 批准号: 971704
• 金额: $ 174.8万
• 依托单位: HUBL LOGISTICS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 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=971704
• 关键词: Cool; Run; Hubl; solution; multi

The Cool Run Pod, hereafter called CR Pod, is an innovative new product that will reduce the harmful non-tail-pipe emissions from transport refrigeration units as per the scope of the SBRI Competition. CR Pod brings together several existing and emerging technologies to create the world’s first non-diesel, last mile, independently monitored refrigerated delivery system that can operate as a fully independent system or part of an automated distribution network with high component recyclability and reparability. CR Pod has been developed by Hubl with support from the University of Lincoln, hereafter to referred to UoL, to link the proposed new product with current research and analysis on the emissions savings which could be achieved through its commercialisation. Studies to date have identified that the CR Pod could lead to the removal of all refrigeration units from vans and lorries in urban areas, saving an estimated 120m Kg of Co2 and associated Nox emissions per annum in the UK in line with the Clean Air Strategy Chapter 5 - ‘Action to reduce emissions from transport’. CR Pod has a clear plan for commercialisation and route to market. The fresh and frozen food market is exponentially growing due to the demand for grocery home delivery, convenience store fulfilment and the growing restaurant and foodservice market, but currently relies on the use of specialist refrigerated vehicles which are on the rise for urban deliveries. These are currently cooled by compressor driven diesel-fuelled cooling units mounted on to the truck to provide power for the refrigeration system or in the case of electric vehicles, they draw power from the principal drivetrain or additional batteries. In 2017, Professor Toby Peters, Chair in Power and Cold Economy, University of Birmingham, said: “Until now, nobody has given transport refrigeration units a thought. They are unregulated, use out-dated, fossil-fuelled technology and are disproportionately polluting. What’s worse, their pollution is concentrated on city streets where it does the most damage to our health.” CR Pod responds to this and the scope of this SBRI Competition through the development of an alternative concept to mobile refrigeration units – a lightweight, durable, cost-effective containment system for the transportation of food and pharmaceuticals, primarily for the last mile of delivery (meaning from the point of order assemble to the final destination and delivered within an eight hour delivery round). The CR Pod completely removes the needs for a compressor driven diesel-fuelled unit. It is a disruptive technology, integrating a range of innovative technologies, not previously used in combination in the multi-temperature delivery market, to provide a product which can be easily integrated into the logistics supply chain. The CR Pod is technically innovative and through extensive research and development, Hubl believes it can provide a simple solution in terms of deliverability, scalability and affordability, with a clear route to market and huge potential to support the Clean Air Strategy and UK Industrial Strategy. It is also replicable and scalable across the globe where markets are already growing.

Cool Run Pod（以下简称CR Pod）是一种创新产品，将根据SBRI竞赛的范围减少运输制冷机组的有害非尾管排放。CR Pod汇集了多种现有和新兴技术，创造了世界上第一个非柴油、最后一英里、独立监控的冷藏配送系统，该系统可以作为一个完全独立的系统运行，也可以作为自动化配送网络的一部分运行，具有高度的组件可回收性和可修复性。CR Pod是Hubl在林肯大学（以下简称UoL）的支持下开发的，旨在将拟议的新产品与当前对通过其商业化可以实现的减排量的研究和分析联系起来。迄今为止的研究已经确定，CR Pod可以导致城市地区的货车和卡车上的所有制冷装置的拆除，根据清洁空气战略第5章-“减少运输排放的行动”，英国每年可节省约1.2亿公斤的二氧化碳和相关的氮氧化物排放。CR Pod有一个明确的商业化计划和市场路线。由于对食品杂货送货上门，便利店履行以及不断增长的餐馆和餐饮服务市场的需求，新鲜和冷冻食品市场呈指数级增长，但目前依赖于使用专业冷藏车，这些车辆正在城市交付中增加。目前，这些车辆由安装在卡车上的压缩机驱动的柴油燃料冷却单元冷却，为制冷系统提供动力，或者在电动车辆的情况下，它们从主传动系统或附加电池汲取动力。2017年，伯明翰大学电力和冷经济学教授托比·彼得斯（Toby Peters）说：“到目前为止，还没有人考虑过运输制冷机组。它们不受管制，使用过时的化石燃料技术，污染严重。更糟糕的是，他们的污染集中在城市街道上，对我们的健康损害最大。”CR Pod通过开发移动的制冷装置的替代概念来应对这一点和SBRI竞赛的范围-一种用于食品和药品运输的轻质，耐用，具有成本效益的密封系统，主要用于最后一英里的交付（即从订单点组装到最终目的地并在八小时内交付）。CR Pod完全消除了对压缩机驱动柴油机的需求。这是一项颠覆性技术，集成了一系列创新技术，以前在多温度交付市场中没有组合使用，以提供可以轻松集成到物流供应链中的产品。CR Pod在技术上具有创新性，通过广泛的研发，Hubl相信它可以在可交付性，可扩展性和可负担性方面提供一个简单的解决方案，具有明确的市场路线，并具有支持清洁空气战略和英国工业战略的巨大潜力。它也可以在市场已经增长的地球仪上复制和扩展。