Optimization of Thermally Driven Building Cooling Systems

热驱动建筑冷却系统的优化

• 批准号: 2273416
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2273416
• 关键词: Optimization; Thermally; Driven; Building; Cooling

Air conditioning is one of the fastest growing consumer product markets in the world. This is due to a combination of growing wealth in sun belt countries, increased incidence of record high temperatures in both sun belt and higher latitude, as well as a reduction in unit costs. This has the effect that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are being frustrated, and in places, reversed by this influential market trend. In addition, many of the hottest areas have no mains electricity or intermittent supply. The advent of solar air conditioning is the prospective answer, requiring no external electricity supply. Despite the progressively falling costs of photovoltaic panels, they remain to be low efficiency devices. This means that to achieve the cooling power needed in certain places, a panel area greater than that available is needed. A novel thermal solar cooling system that relies exclusively on thermal solar heat is a potential answer to the problems outlined. Given that solar collectors are significantly more efficient at collecting the desirable solar energy than commercial photovoltaics, the solar collector area requirements are accordingly less. Avoiding the use of photovoltaics, as well as mains power, provides the advantage of the reduced area requirements and all of the costs associated.Solar thermal conditioning affords a large target market, given the opportunity to provide a zero-carbon cooling technology to those in need. Given the magnitude of this task, one of the fundamental challenges to overcome is the building integration aspect of the technology. This involves identifying and understanding how the technology can be integrated into designs for zero or carbon-negative housing development, as well as echoing that research toward retrofit design that can implement onto existing housing.The Research Engineer will:- Identify and understand the challenges associated with building integration of the solar thermal conditioning system.- Design a range of potential solutions for the novel technology within both existing and new housing developments.- Develop prospective solutions at in the form of product demonstrators for proof of concept.- Develop a potential route to market strategy.

空调是世界上增长最快的消费品市场之一。这是由于阳光带国家的财富不断增长，阳光带和高纬度地区创纪录高温的发生率增加，以及单位成本的降低。其结果是，全球减少温室气体排放的努力正在受到挫折，在某些地方，这种有影响力的市场趋势正在逆转。此外，许多最热的地区没有电源或间歇性供电。太阳能空调的出现是未来的答案，不需要外部电力供应。尽管光电板的成本逐渐下降，但它们仍然是低效率的设备。这意味着，为了达到某些地方所需的冷却功率，需要一个比可用面积更大的面板。一种新型的太阳能热冷却系统，完全依赖于太阳能热，是解决上述问题的一个潜在答案。鉴于太阳能集热器在收集所需的太阳能方面比商业光伏发电效率高得多，因此太阳能集热器所需的面积也相应减少。避免使用光伏，以及主电源，提供了减少面积要求和所有相关成本的优势。鉴于有机会为有需要的人提供零碳冷却技术，太阳能热调节提供了一个巨大的目标市场。考虑到这项任务的重要性，需要克服的基本挑战之一是构建技术的集成方面。这包括识别和理解如何将该技术集成到零碳或负碳住房开发的设计中，以及呼应可以在现有住房上实施的改造设计研究。研究工程师将：-识别并理解与太阳能热调节系统集成相关的挑战。-在现有和新住宅发展项目中为新技术设计一系列潜在的解决方案。-以产品演示的形式开发潜在的解决方案，以验证概念。-开发潜在的市场策略。