Low-cost, high-efficiency Solar-Powered Fridges for export

该项目将设计一套新的零碳、太阳能离网冰箱，主要面向非洲出口市场，非洲70%的人口生活在农村地区，其中80%的人无法获得电力。这主要是一个出口导向的市场，虽然冰箱可能在英国和发达国家的休闲/露营/户外市场使用。大多数撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）国家遭受粮食短缺和营养不良（非洲36%的五岁以下儿童发育不良，东非的患病率最高）。54%的五岁以下儿童死亡是由于营养不良和相关并发症造成的）。在电网扩展在经济上不可行的农村地区，迫切需要支持扩大农业生产和减少生产性使用能源的浪费。乌干达的牛奶消费量为65升/年，远低于世界卫生组织的建议（210升/年）。没有照明的道路和缺乏冷藏意味着夜间挤奶（产量的50%）无法出售，要么养活家庭，要么与到达仓库的细菌含量过高的牛奶一起浪费。随着政府扩大育种计划，将当地品种与欧洲高产品种杂交，这种浪费削弱了这些计划的经济可行性，并没有帮助已经远离牛奶收集中心（MCC）的农民，减轻了这种现代牲畜管理计划的影响。我们将为一种新的低成本，强大的太阳能，为小奶农和农村离网商店提供高能效冰箱：这是一个尚未开发的市场。该项目建立在以前资助的英国研发项目的基础上，并将4项独立开发的技术结合到成本/效率优化和创新的产品设计中，Netzero将领导该项目的设计和规范工作。将考虑休闲行业的第二个机会-在欧洲没有连接到电网的大篷车和大型帐篷，以及帮助实现碳中和的努力

This project will design a new suite of zero-carbon, solar-powered off-grid fridges, primarily for the export market to Africa, where 70% of people live in rural areas and 80% of these have no access to power. This is primarily an export-led market although the fridges may have use in the UK, and developed countries', leisure/camping/outdoor markets.Most Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries suffer food shortages and malnutrition (36% under-fives are stunted in Africa, with highest prevalence in East Africa. 54% of under-five mortality is due to malnutrition and related complications). Support, to expand agricultural production and reduce wastage by the productive Use of Energy, is urgently needed in rural areas where grid expansion is not economically viable. Uganda's milk consumption is 65litres/annum, well below the WHO recommendation (210litres/annum)Dairy production is concentrated (\>90%) by smallholder farmers. Unlit roads and lack of refrigeration mean that the night milking (50% of production) cannot be sold and either feeds the family or is wasted together with milk which arrives at the depot with too high a bacterial content. As the Government expands breeding programmes to cross breed local breeds with European high yield strains, this wastage weakens the economic viability for such programmes and does not help farmers already too far from Milk Collection Centres (MCC's), lessening the impact of such modern livestock management programmes.We will produce a specification and drawings for a new low-cost, robust solar-powered, high energy efficient fridges for small-holder dairy farmers and rural off-grid shops: an, as yet, untapped market. This project builds on previously funded UK R&D projects and combines 4 technologies developed independently into a cost/efficient optimised and innovative product design, based on known components.Netzero will lead the project working on the design and specification.A secondary opportunity will be considered for the Leisure industry - Caravans and Large tents that are not connected to the grid in Europe and beyond helping with the carbon neutral drive