Follow on of Range extended- refrigerated BEVs for CO2 abatement in fleets project

Sunamp的成立是为了满足汽车和建筑环境对低碳至零碳热能储存和管理的需求。Sunamp开发、制造和销售一种新型、高效的热能储存和处理技术：热电池。这是一种包装的热能存储，其内部使用相变材料（PCM）来存储比同等大小的水箱多几倍的热量。在“相变”过程中，例如从液体到固体的转变，大量的热量被储存或释放。Sunamp完善了机械设计，使热电池持久耐用，易于集成：模块化，可扩展，易于连接到加热系统。热电池可以与各种能源集成，例如热泵和冷却器。这为回收废热和产生可再生热/冷提供了极其有效的系统。这一概念目前正被广泛应用于各种领域，如低成本的加热/冷却建筑、工业冷热加工和汽车设计。Sunamp的最终目标是将其技术应用于创新产品中，通过利用免费或低成本的可再生热能，减少燃料短缺，减少能源消耗，并降低汽车、货车、卡车、公共汽车和建筑物的碳强度。如今，车队中用于运送冷藏和冷冻货物的电动汽车数量很少，原因在于：1)与内燃机（ICE）汽车相比，电动汽车的日行驶里程有限；2)夏季和冬季之间的极端差异，因为电池必须为牵引、舱室调节和集装箱制冷提供能量。在这个项目中，Sunamp旨在改进在最近结束的Innovate UK IDP12项目中开发的技术。这些改进将显著增加电动冷冻和冷藏车辆的采用，用于短期运送冷冻货物，通过集成紧凑型储热装置，将牵引（来自电池）所需的能量与热负载（来自热电池）所需的能量分离，即客舱加热和冷藏/冷藏集装箱。主要好处是：1)通过消除城市中数千辆商用内燃机汽车，显著减少了当地的二氧化碳排放和其他污染物；2)由于车辆噪音低，夜间送货增加。

Sunamp was founded to respond to the need for low to zero-carbon thermal energy storage and management in the automotive and building environments. Sunamp develops, manufactures, and distributes a novel, high-efficiency thermal energy storage and processing technology: the Heat Battery. This is a packaged store of heat energy which internally uses Phase Change Material (PCM) to store multiple times more heat than an equal sized water tank. During a 'phase change', such as a transition from liquid to solid, a lot of heat is stored or released. Sunamp has perfected the mechanical design that makes a Heat Battery long lasting and easy to integrate: modular, scalable and easy to connect into heating systems. Heat Batteries can be integrated with various energy sources e.g. heat pumps and chillers. This delivers extremely efficient systems for recovering waste heat and generating renewable heat/coolth. The concept is now being explored in sectors as diverse as heating/cooling buildings at lower cost, industrial hot and cold processing and automotive design. Sunamp's ultimate goals is deployment of its technology in innovative products that reduce fuel poverty, reduce energy consumption, and reduce carbon intensity of cars, vans, trucks, buses and buildings by harnessing free or low-cost renewable heat.Nowadays, the number of electric vehicles used in fleets to deliver chilled and frozen goods is low due to: 1) limited daily mileage as compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles; and 2) extreme discrepancies between summer and winter range as the electrical batteries have to provide energy for traction, cabin conditioning, and refrigeration of the container. In this project, Sunamp aims to improve a technology developed in a recently concluded Innovate UK IDP12 project. The improvements will significantly increase the adoption of electric chilled and refrigerated vehicles for short delivery of frozen goods, by integrating compact thermal stores to decouple the energy required for traction (from electric batteries) from that required for thermal loads (from thermal batteries), i.e. cabin heating and chill/refrigeration of the container. Major benefits are: 1) significant reduction of local CO2 emissions and other pollutants by removing thousands of commercial ICE vehicles in cities; 2) increase of night deliveries because of low vehicle noise.