SBIR Phase I: Interface for connecting high temperature solar collectors to legacy thermal systems

SBIR 第一阶段：用于将高温太阳能集热器连接到传统热系统的接口

• 批准号: 1747222
• 负责人: Arun Gupta
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Skyven Technologies
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747222&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Interface; connecting; temperature

This SBIR Phase I Project will enable rural areas of the United States and developing nations to leapfrog the need to build natural gas distribution infrastructure. High temperature heat is required to manufacture and process many day-to-day items, including food, clothing, and more. In regions of the world that do not have natural gas infrastructure, factories produce heat by burning petroleum-based fuel - fuel that must be trucked on-site. It gets expensive. This project will develop technology to capture high temperature heat directly from the sun at significantly lower costs than customers are already paying for fuel. It has the potential to spur economic development in rural areas in the US and other under-developed regions around the world by improving access and reducing the cost of high-temperature heat.This project will develop plug-and-play interfaces and techniques to connect advanced new fuel-less boiler technologies to existing / legacy thermal systems in commercial and industrial facilities. Current techniques require costly engineering and are prone to failure, forming a key barrier to the adoption of new fuel-less heat sources. This project will develop modular, scalable, and robust techniques to combine fuel-less boilers powered by the sun with traditional boilers powered by fossil fuels. It will include development and testing of both control systems and thermal balance-of-systems. The goal of the project will be to demonstrate integration of an advanced renewable heat source on a live industrial facility. This work is expected to reduce the cost of deploying such technology by 50% or more.

这个SBIR I期项目将使美国的农村地区和发展中国家能够超越建立天然气分配基础设施的需求。制造和处理许多日常物品需要高温热，包括食物，衣物等。在没有天然气基础设施的世界地区，工厂通过燃烧石油的燃料（必须在现场运输的燃料）产生热量。它变得昂贵。该项目将开发技术，以直接从太阳中捕获高温热量，其成本明显低于客户已经为燃料支付的费用。它有可能通过改善通道并降低高温热量的成本来刺激美国和世界其他欠发达地区的经济发展。该项目将开发插入式接口和技术，以将现有的无燃油锅炉技术连接到商业和工业设施中现有 /遗产的热量系统。当前的技术需要昂贵的工程，并且容易失败，这为采用新的无燃油热源构成了关键障碍。该项目将开发模块化，可扩展和强大的技术，以将由太阳提供动力的无燃油锅炉与用化石燃料供电的传统锅炉相结合。它将包括对控制系统和热平衡系统的开发和测试。该项目的目的是证明在实时工业设施上将高级可再生热源整合在一起。预计这项工作将使部署此类技术的成本减少50％或更多。