CoolGlass: Mass producible and durable radiative cooling glass panels

CoolGlass：可大规模生产且耐用的辐射冷却玻璃面板

• 批准号: EP/Y036603/1
• 负责人: Ioannis Papakonstantinou
• 金额: $ 16.19万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY036603%2F1
• 关键词: CoolGlass; Mass; producible; durable; radiative; CoolGlass; Mass; producible; durable; radiative

The problem: Indoor space cooling is a fundamental means for achieving good health and wellbeing due to its direct correlation with human comfort, increased productivity levels and concomitant health benefits. Such is its impact on people's lives that meeting all 17 UN's Sustainable Development Goals rests, to a greater or lesser extent, on the timely proliferation of green cooling technologies, as was recently argued. Nonetheless, cooling has a dark side, being one of the most energy intensive and highly polluting processes associated with human activity. The statistics are staggering; the energy consumed by air-conditioners and electric fans accounts for ~20% of the total electricity used in buildings worldwide and contribute >1.2 GT of CO2 emissions/year. The solution: In order to resolve the cooling conundrum, I am putting forward a novel radiative cooling technology. The proposed solution leverages the infinite heat capacity of the cold Universe, converting it in essence into an inexhaustible reservoir for the waste heat of the built, transport, and other manmade environments on earth. The developed products in CoolGlass will take the form of radiative cooling panels made of thin, low-iron glass sheets. The main advantages that CoolGlass technology brings about are: i) Full compatibility with industrial, mass manufacturing methods. ii) Unrivalled durability. iii) Superior cooling capacity compared with other competing radiative cooling technologies. iv) Design flexibility, and, v) excellent sustainability prospects.Overall, CoolGlass combines zero input-energy and zero CO2-emissions (during usage period) with cost-efficacy, low-maintenanceand short payback times and constitutes a disrupting, green, space cooling solution that can significantly mitigate electricityconsumption from cooling systems.

问题：室内空间冷却是实现良好健康和福祉的基本手段，因为它与人类舒适，生产率提高和伴随健康益处的直接相关。正如最近所说的那样，这就是它对人们生活的影响，即在绿色冷却技术的及时扩散中，达到了所有17个联合国的可持续发展目标。尽管如此，冷却具有黑暗的一面，是与人类活动相关的最能量密集型和高度污染的过程之一。统计数据令人惊讶；空调和电风扇所消耗的能量占全球建筑物总用电的20％，贡献> 1.2 GT的二氧化碳排放量。解决方案：为了解决冷却难题，我正在提出一种新颖的辐射冷却技术。提出的解决方案利用了冷宇宙的无限热容量，将其本质上转化为无穷无尽的储层，以使其在地球上建造，运输和其他人造环境的废热。以酷战的形式，开发的产品将采用由薄的低铁玻璃板制成的辐射冷却面板的形式。 Coolglass技术带来的主要优势是：i）与工业，大规模制造方法完全兼容。 ii）无与伦比的耐用性。 iii）与其他竞争辐射冷却技术相比，卓越的冷却能力。 iv）设计灵活性，v）出色的可持续性前景。库尔格拉斯（Coolglass）结合了零输入能量和零CO2排放（在使用期间），具有成本效能，低维持其短暂的短期回报时间，并构成了一种破坏的，绿色的，太空冷却解决方案，可以极大地减轻从冷却系统中降低电力系统。