Loughborough University - Equipment Account

该提案要求资本基础设施创建ThemExS实验室，这是未来涉及高级热能的(火用)存储研究的卓越中心。该提案建立在日益增长的国际共识的基础上，即热量捕获、转换和存储在低碳能源系统的发展中将变得越来越重要，我们的分析表明，它可能在超大型集中式和小型分布式电网规模下提供具有成本效益的能源存储选择方面发挥关键作用。修订后的投标仍涵盖原始提案中的三个类别，但为了满足资金削减至170万GB的要求，过渡规模测试平台的规模已大幅缩减。此外，正在与一些供应商谈判进一步的折扣安排，从而使投资产生更大的价值)类别之间的资金分配现在是(A)高品级蓄热材料的材料表征设备(GB 0.536M)(B)用于检查热传递、流体流动和存储密度的小试规模测试平台(GB 0.297M)(C)过渡规模测试平台，用于深入了解完整规模的系统行为(GB 0.866M)。

This proposal requests capital infrastructure to create ThemExS Lab, a future centre of excellence for research on exergy storage involving high-grade heat. The proposal builds on the growing international consensus that heat capture, conversion and storage will become increasingly important in the move to alow carbon energy system and our analysis that it is likely to play a pivotal role in providing cost effective energy storage options both at the very large centralized and small distributed grid-scales.This revised version of the bid still covers the three categories in the original proposal, however to meet the reduction in funding to £1.7 million a significant reduction in the scale of the transition scale test platforms has been made. In addition, further discount arrangements are being negotiated with a number ofsuppliers, which has enabled greater value from the investment)The division of funds between categories is now(A) Materials characterisation equipment for high grade heat storage materials (£0.536M)(B) Bench scale test platforms for examining heat transfer, fluid flow and storage density (£0.297M)(C) Transition scale test platforms giving insight into full scale system behaviours (£0.866M).