Descripción del proyecto
Tecnología innovadora para la conversión de calor residual
Se pierden enormes cantidades de calor generado por el consumo de energía: hasta un 50 % en la industria y un 70 % en los vehículos. Si este calor residual pudiera reconvertirse con eficiencia en energía útil, contribuiría sin duda a combatir la crisis energética mundial. El equipo del proyecto MAGENTA, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende desarrollar una tecnología magnetotermoeléctrica basada en líquidos iónicos y ferrofluidos capaces de transformar el calor residual en electricidad. Creará prototipos para su aplicación en las industrias de la microelectrónica y la automoción, así como un modelo de demostración para su exhibición pública. En conjunto, el proyecto pretende beneficiar la transición energética europea con una solución económica y ambientalmente sostenible.
Objetivo
MAGENTA proposes a brand new technological path in thermoelectric materials research for waste-heat recovery applications. The originality of the project is based on the newly discovered thermal-to-electric energy conversion capacity of ionic-liquids and ferrofluids; i.e. colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles in ionic liquids (IL-FFs). It is an inter-disciplinary and cross-sector R&D project combining concepts and techniques from physics, chemistry and electrochemistry with an active participation from 3 SME and 1 industrial partners implicated in the materials supply-chain, the device design/performance and the market-uptake assessment. Both experimental and theoretical approaches will be employed to build foundational knowledge on novel magneto-thermoelectric phenomena in ferrofluids. Computational simulations will allow ‘bottom-up’ construction of IL-FFs with optimal conditions for harvesting energy. The end-products of MAGENTA, application specific magneto-thermoelectric materials and devices, will provide innovation leadership to European companies in waste-heat recovery industries. The lead-user industries targeted by MAGENTA are automobile and microelectronic sectors, but demonstration-type thermoelectric generators will also be produced for public outreach actions on waste-heat recovery technologies. Through its foundational, interdisciplinary and cross-sector research & innovation actions, the consortium will become a “seed community” for building an innovation ecosystem around the novel magneto-thermoelectric technology, presenting long-term impacts on future renewal energy science and technology from which the society as a whole can benefit. Withal, MAGENTA offers breakthrough thermoelectric materials that are versatile, cost-effective and non-toxic to assist the economically and environmentally sustainable energy transition in Europe.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryorganic reactions
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryhalogens
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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FETPROACT-2016
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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