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

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：室内空间制冷是实现良好健康和福祉的基本手段，因为它与人类舒适度、提高生产力水平和随之而来的健康益处直接相关。正如最近提出的那样，它对人们生活的影响如此之大，以至于实现所有 17 项联合国可持续发展目标或多或少取决于绿色制冷技术的及时推广。尽管如此，降温也有其阴暗面，它是与人类活动相关的能源密集度最高、污染最严重的过程之一。统计数据令人震惊；空调和电风扇消耗的能源约占全球建筑物总用电量的 20%，每年贡献超过 1.2 GT 的二氧化碳排放量。解决方案：为了解决冷却难题，我提出了一种新颖的辐射冷却技术。所提出的解决方案利用了寒冷宇宙的无限热容量，将其本质上转化为一个取之不尽的水库，用于储存地球上建筑、交通和其他人造环境的废热。 CoolGlass 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，具有卓越的冷却能力。 iv) 设计灵活性，以及​​ v) 出色的可持续发展前景。总体而言，CoolGlass 将零输入能源和零二氧化碳排放（在使用期间）与成本效益、低维护和短投资回收期相结合，构成了一个颠覆性的绿色空间冷却解决方案可以显着减少冷却系统的电力消耗。