Description du projet
Les technologies de refroidissement à faible émission de carbone maintiennent des espaces confortables de manière durable
Le changement climatique mondial et les émissions sont étroitement liés. Notre dernière décennie a été la plus chaude jamais enregistrée, et nous sommes tous conscients à présent de notre besoin de réduire les émissions liées aux activités humaines pour ralentir le réchauffement climatique. Malheureusement, le réchauffement a accru la dépendance de l’Europe vis-à-vis du refroidissement. Cela explique qu’il figure désormais au premier plan des domaines ciblés pour la décarbonation. Le projet CO-COOL, financé par l’UE, réunira un grand consortium international pour développer des technologies de refroidissement améliorées qui exploitent soit l’électricité ou la chaleur renouvelables, soit la chaleur résiduelle pour garder les personnes et les espaces au frais sans chauffer notre planète.
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Cooling is the fastest-growing use of energy in buildings but is also one of the most critical blind spots in today’s energy debate. Rising demand for space cooling is putting enormous strain on electricity systems in many countries, as well as driving up emissions. Comparing to heat, power, and transport, cooling had long been under-represented in the EU energy policy until 2016 when the European Commission took the first step with the launch of its Heating and Cooling Strategy. The strategy identifies actions of ‘increasing the share of renewables’ and ‘reuse of energy waste from industry’ as two key areas for decarbonizing cooling to meet the EU’s climate goals by 2050. Accordingly, the targets are only achievable with fast development and deployment of new efficient and effective cooling technologies driven by either ‘renewable electricity/heat’ or waste heat. This CO-COOL RISE project assembles an international, interdisciplinary consortium from 12 research institutions and 5 industrial companies to collectively accelerate the cooling technology development and deployment, with complementary expertise/skills including composite solids, phase change materials (PCMs), complex fluids, process intensification (heat and mass transfer), cold thermal storage, refrigeration systems, as well as techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA), marketing analysis, and entrepreneurship skills. Based on the innovation of composite solids (sorbents/PCMs) and fluids (PCMs and hydrate slurries) as well as related components and systems, the project aims to develop renewable/recoverable energy driven, storage-integrated cooling technologies which could offer energy resource-efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet end-users’ low carbon cooling demand.
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