Complex Compound Comfort Air Conditioning for Electric Vehicles

该SBIR第一阶段项目致力于为“下一代车辆”的乘员舱提供舒适的供暖和制冷的新型系统。传统的系统很笨重，需要使用电力才能运行。这增加了额外的电池重量，并减少了特定电动汽车设计可达到的续航里程。一个复杂的基于化合物的系统将在电动汽车充电过程中存储加热和冷却潜力，并在车辆运行过程中根据需要释放这些能量，而不使用电力。它还将导致更轻的车辆重量，进一步增加车辆的射程。第一阶段的目标是为这种类型的系统选择最好的复合介质，进行速率测试和热交换器优化，并建立可行性和拟议的概念。

This SBIR Phase I project addresses a new type of system to provide comfort heating and cooling for the occupant compartment of `Next Generation Vehicles`. Conventional systems are heavy and require use of electric power to operate. This adds additional battery weight and reduces the range attainable with a given electric vehicle design. A complex compound based system would store heating and cooling potential during the electric vehicle charging process, and release this energy as required during vehicle operation without the use of electric power. It would also result in lower vehicle weight, further increasing the vehicles rangeability. Phase I objectives will be to select the best complex compound media for this type of system, perform rate testing and heat exchanger optimization and establish the viability and the proposed concept.