Objective
AIM The aim of the project is to develop a low cost effective heat meter to me asure the energy delivered in the form of hot water from Solar Water Heating (S WH) systems ready for effective commercial exploitation by the project team. Th e development of this hardware is a key part of the promotion of buy as you us e , where the customer only pays for delivered energy thus avoiding the disince ntive of high capital costs for SWH systems. This technique is being promoted i n a Thermie B proposal Solar Results Purchasing submitted by members of this team. TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES - To design and develop a reliable heat meter su fficiently accurate to enable consumer billing for the energy content of delive red hot water from SWH systems - To limit the retail price of the meter part o f a SWH system to 1 50ECU to make SWH buy as you use competitive - To develo p high quality novel technologies and optimise existing heat measurement techni ques by utilising state of the art micro-controllers. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL OB JECTIVES The capital cost of SWH is widely accepted as one of the major barrie rs to wider scale uptake of the technology, and is a constraint to three of the SME's in the partnership. The principal Economic and Social Objectives are: - Enable an addittional 10% increase in the uptake of SWH in the world market wi thin 5 years - Increase use of SWH in disadvantaged areas of Europe - Increas e the market share of the collaborating SMEs - Improvement of European market share of SWH through world - wide marketing by facilitating by as you use tec hniques - Increase the contribution of SWH to the EU target for energy provisi on from renewable resources - Promote further collaborative research within Eu rope to improve SWH technology - Promote a standardised pan European approach for this technology DISSEMINATION PATHWAYS - Participating SME's promotiona l literature - Articles in industry and scientific journals - European semina rs, workshops and conferences - Promotion and dissemination through related pr ojects
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SA15 5RA Ponthenri
United Kingdom
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