Loughborough University - Equipment Account

该提案要求资本基础设施创建ThemExS实验室，这是一个未来的卓越中心，用于研究涉及高品位热量的有效能存储。该提案建立在日益增长的国际共识基础上，即热捕获，转换和储存在向低碳能源系统的转变中将变得越来越重要，我们的分析表明，它可能在提供具有成本效益的能源储存选择方面发挥关键作用，无论是在非常大的集中式还是小型分布式电网规模。该修订版的投标仍然涵盖了原始提案中的三个类别，然而，为了满足资金减少到170万英镑的要求，已经大幅缩小了过渡规模试验平台的规模。此外，正在与一些供应商谈判进一步的折扣安排，这使得投资能够获得更大的价值）目前各类别之间的资金分配如下：（A）高级储热材料的材料表征设备（53.6万英镑）（B）用于检查传热的实验室规模试验平台，流体流量和存储密度（29.7万英镑）（C）过渡规模测试平台，深入了解全规模系统行为（86.6万英镑）。

This proposal requests capital infrastructure to create ThemExS Lab, a future centre of excellence for research on exergy storage involving high-grade heat. The proposal builds on the growing international consensus that heat capture, conversion and storage will become increasingly important in the move to alow carbon energy system and our analysis that it is likely to play a pivotal role in providing cost effective energy storage options both at the very large centralized and small distributed grid-scales.This revised version of the bid still covers the three categories in the original proposal, however to meet the reduction in funding to £1.7 million a significant reduction in the scale of the transition scale test platforms has been made. In addition, further discount arrangements are being negotiated with a number ofsuppliers, which has enabled greater value from the investment)The division of funds between categories is now(A) Materials characterisation equipment for high grade heat storage materials (£0.536M)(B) Bench scale test platforms for examining heat transfer, fluid flow and storage density (£0.297M)(C) Transition scale test platforms giving insight into full scale system behaviours (£0.866M).