Thermo-Regulating Mobile Covers for Indoor Energy Savings

我们为采暖建筑引入了新的产品和制造理念。该产品基于工业合作伙伴制造磁盖的现有技术和利物浦大学使用相变材料（pcm）制造热能储存系统的专业知识。项目参与者的合作将为具有自响应温度调节能力的覆盖打开一个市场，这将减少客户（家庭和工业）的整体能源损失，并平滑高峰和低高峰期间的能源消耗。拟议项目的想法是基于能量胶囊的基础研究，该胶囊装载相变材料，用于储存和释放热能，该研究是在ERC整合者的主要资助“ENERCAPSULE”下开发的。不同类型的胶囊壳（聚合物、碳基、无机纳米颗粒）装载了不可燃的晶体水合物pcm，在20 - 200℃的温度范围内有效地储存了热废能，并控制了能量进出能量容器的能量传递。关于pcm封装的基本知识为其作为不同主体材料的热能存储添加剂的应用创造了一个新的平台。项目的最终目标是将一种新产品商业化，用于家庭、医院和其他社会、政府和工业园区。

We introduce new product and manufacturing concept for heating buildings. This product is based on the technologies existing in Industrial partner for fabrication of magnetic covers and expertise from University of Liverpool in manufacturing of thermal energy storage systems using phase-change materials (PCMs). Collaboration of project participants will open a market niche for covers withself-responding thermo-regulating ability, which reduce overall energy losses for the customers (both domestic and industrial) and smoothen energy consumption during high and low peak periods. The idea of the proposed project is based on the fundamental studies of energy capsules loaded with phase-change materials for storage and release of thermal energy developed under main ERC Consolidator grant "ENERCAPSULE". Different types of the capsule shell (polymeric, carbon-based, inorganic nanoparticles) loaded with nonflammable crystallohydrate PCMs were developed for effective storage of the thermal waste energy within the temperature range 20 - 200 0C and controlled energy transfer into/from energy container. The fundamental knowledge on encapsulation of the PCMs created a new platform for their application as thermal energy storage additives to different host materials. The final project goal is commercialisation of a new product for use in households, hospitals and other social, governmentaland industrial estates.