Solar cooling of buildings using low emissivity transpired solar collectors and desiccant air conditioning technology

该项目包括评估一种创新的低碳太阳能冷却系统的技术和商业可行性。该系统的特点是利用创新的低辐射太阳能集热器产生的热量来再生干燥剂，这种干燥剂再生的热量是不干燥剂空调技术的主要能源需求。在这个项目中，我们将调查空调市场，分析现有和新兴的空调技术，评估采用节能空调技术的驱动因素，并考虑我们创新的太阳能制冷理念的市场潜力。我们还将开发一个基于Excel的模型，用于预测在不同地理位置/气候条件下具有不同空调负荷的不同建筑中与干燥剂空调技术结合使用的低辐射透射太阳能集热器的能源性能。我们还计划为我们创新的太阳能冷却系统的工业研究、实验开发、最终产品开发和商业化制定路线图。

The project involves the assessment of the technical and commercial feasibility of aninnovative low carbon solar cooling system. The system will feature the use of heat, frominnovative low emissivity transpired solar collectors, to regenerate the desiccant withindesiccant air conditioning technology (for which the heat for desiccant regeneration is theprincipal energy demand).Within the project we will investigate the market for air conditioning, analyse existing andemerging air conditioning technologies, assess the drivers of uptake of energy efficient airconditioning technology and consider the market potential for our innovative solar coolingidea.We will also develop an Excel based model for predicting the energy performance of lowemissivity transpired solar collectors used in conjunction with desiccant air conditioningtechnology for varying buildings with different air conditioning loads in a variety ofgeographic locations / climates.We plan also to develop a route map for industrial research, experimental development, finalproduct development and commercialisation of our innovative solar cooling system.