A Versatile Collector (VersCo) for simultaneous Photovoltaic-thermal and Radiative Cooling in Buildings

这个奖学金将培养一个有才华的早期职业研究人员（王Q博士），日内瓦国际发明展金奖、中国科学院院长奖学金博士研究生特别奖赢家（PhD的最高荣誉），通过研究和开发多功能收集器（VersCo），为欧盟的科学卓越做出贡献光热（PVT）和辐射制冷（RC）是两种分别由太阳能和外层空间冷能驱动的有吸引力的可再生能源技术。它们在可再生性和能量输出类型（电和热与冷）和优选操作周期（冷季与热季）方面的互补性的相似性刺激申请人提出VersCo设计概念，旨在完美地结合PVT和RC技术。VersCo技术可以同时为建筑物提供电力，热量和冷量，具有出色的季节适应性。此外，VersCo的设计还能够解决独立PVT和RC集热器效率较低的严重缺点，这极大地帮助了近零能耗建筑的实施。为了实现这些有益的功能，申请人提出了一种巧妙的微型光学模块和一种新型的光谱选择性涂层，用于VersCo系统，并将在该奖学金中进行优化，试制和评估。该项目经过精心设计，将王博士的专业知识与诺丁汉大学在太阳能，微/纳米涂层和低碳/零碳建筑方面的优势相匹配，促进双向知识转移和培训。成功完成该奖学金将有助于欧洲在混合可再生能源系统和低碳/零碳建筑方面的卓越表现，并提升王博士的专业能力和职业前景。

This fellowship will train a talented early career researcher (Dr. Q Wang), a winner of the Grand Gold Medal of Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions and the Special Prize of President Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for PhD Graduate (the highest honor for PhD), to contribute to scientific excellence in the EU by investigating and developing a Versatile Collector (VersCo) for building integrated renewable energy applications.Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) and radiative cooling (RC) are two appealing renewable energy technologies driven by solar energy and cold energy in outer space, respectively. Their similarities in renewability and complementarities in types of energy outputs (electricity and heat vs. coldness) and preferable operating periods (cold seasons vs. hot seasons) stimulate the applicants to propose the VersCo design concept aiming to perfectly incorporate PVT and RC technology. The VersCo technology can simultaneously deliver electricity, heat and coldness to buildings with excellent seasonal adaptability. Additionally, the VersCo design will also be capable of addressing the severe drawbacks of less efficiency in stand-alone PVT and RC collectors, which greatly help the implementation of nearly zero energy buildings. To achieve such beneficial functions, the applicants have proposed an ingenious miniature optical module and a novel spectrally selective coating for the VersCo system, which will be optimised, trial-manufactured and evaluated in this fellowship.The project has been carefully designed to match Dr. Wang's expertise with the strengths of the host team at the University of Nottingham in solar energy, micro/nano coating and low/zero carbon buildings, facilitating a two-way knowledge transfer and training. Successful completion of this fellowship will contribute to European excellence in hybrid renewable energy systems and low/zero carbon buildings and promote Dr. Wang's professional competence and career prospect.