Cool Run: Hubl's solution to multi-temperature last mile delivery

Cool Run Pod，以下简称CR Pod，是一种创新的新产品，将根据SBRI大赛的范围减少运输制冷机组的有害无尾管排放。CRPod结合了几种现有的和新兴的技术，创造了世界上第一个非柴油、最后一英里、独立监控的冷藏输送系统，该系统可以作为一个完全独立的系统或自动化分销网络的一部分运行，具有高度的零部件回收和维修性。CR Pod是由Hubl在林肯大学(以下简称UOL)的支持下开发的，旨在将拟议的新产品与当前对其商业化可以实现的排放节约的研究和分析联系起来。到目前为止，研究已经确定，CR Pod可以消除城市地区货车和卡车上的所有制冷设备，根据清洁空气战略第五章--减少交通运输排放的行动，估计每年在英国节省1.2亿公斤二氧化碳和相关的NOx排放。CR Pod对商业化和进入市场的路线有明确的计划。生鲜和冷冻食品市场正呈指数级增长，原因是食品杂货送货上门、便利店送货以及不断增长的餐馆和餐饮服务市场，但目前依赖于使用专业冷藏车辆进行城市送货。目前，它们是由安装在卡车上的压缩机驱动的柴油冷却装置来冷却的，为制冷系统提供电力，或者在电动汽车的情况下，它们从主传动系统或额外的电池中获得电力。2017年，伯明翰大学电力和冷经济教授托比·彼得斯说：“到目前为止，还没有人考虑过运输制冷设备。它们不受监管，使用过时的化石燃料技术，而且污染严重。更糟糕的是，他们的污染集中在对我们健康损害最大的城市街道上。CR Pod通过开发移动式冷藏设备的替代概念来回应这一点和本次SBRI大赛的范围--一种轻便、耐用、成本效益高的密封系统，用于食品和药品的运输，主要用于交付的最后一英里(即从订货点组装到最终目的地，并在8小时内交付)。CR Pod完全消除了对压缩机驱动的柴油机组的需求。它是一种颠覆性技术，集成了一系列以前在多温度送货市场中没有组合使用的创新技术，以提供可以轻松集成到物流供应链中的产品。CR Pod在技术上具有创新性，通过广泛的研究和开发，Hubl相信它可以在交付能力、可扩展性和可负担性方面提供简单的解决方案，具有明确的上市路线和支持清洁空气战略和英国工业战略的巨大潜力。它还可以在市场已经在增长的全球范围内复制和扩展。

The Cool Run Pod, hereafter called CR Pod, is an innovative new product that will reduce the harmful non-tail-pipe emissions from transport refrigeration units as per the scope of the SBRI Competition. CR Pod brings together several existing and emerging technologies to create the world’s first non-diesel, last mile, independently monitored refrigerated delivery system that can operate as a fully independent system or part of an automated distribution network with high component recyclability and reparability. CR Pod has been developed by Hubl with support from the University of Lincoln, hereafter to referred to UoL, to link the proposed new product with current research and analysis on the emissions savings which could be achieved through its commercialisation. Studies to date have identified that the CR Pod could lead to the removal of all refrigeration units from vans and lorries in urban areas, saving an estimated 120m Kg of Co2 and associated Nox emissions per annum in the UK in line with the Clean Air Strategy Chapter 5 - ‘Action to reduce emissions from transport’. CR Pod has a clear plan for commercialisation and route to market. The fresh and frozen food market is exponentially growing due to the demand for grocery home delivery, convenience store fulfilment and the growing restaurant and foodservice market, but currently relies on the use of specialist refrigerated vehicles which are on the rise for urban deliveries. These are currently cooled by compressor driven diesel-fuelled cooling units mounted on to the truck to provide power for the refrigeration system or in the case of electric vehicles, they draw power from the principal drivetrain or additional batteries. In 2017, Professor Toby Peters, Chair in Power and Cold Economy, University of Birmingham, said: “Until now, nobody has given transport refrigeration units a thought. They are unregulated, use out-dated, fossil-fuelled technology and are disproportionately polluting. What’s worse, their pollution is concentrated on city streets where it does the most damage to our health.” CR Pod responds to this and the scope of this SBRI Competition through the development of an alternative concept to mobile refrigeration units – a lightweight, durable, cost-effective containment system for the transportation of food and pharmaceuticals, primarily for the last mile of delivery (meaning from the point of order assemble to the final destination and delivered within an eight hour delivery round). The CR Pod completely removes the needs for a compressor driven diesel-fuelled unit. It is a disruptive technology, integrating a range of innovative technologies, not previously used in combination in the multi-temperature delivery market, to provide a product which can be easily integrated into the logistics supply chain. The CR Pod is technically innovative and through extensive research and development, Hubl believes it can provide a simple solution in terms of deliverability, scalability and affordability, with a clear route to market and huge potential to support the Clean Air Strategy and UK Industrial Strategy. It is also replicable and scalable across the globe where markets are already growing.