Projet CO-COOL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

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.

Mots clés : adsorption cooling systems, cold thermal energy storage, refrigeration engineering, waste heat recovery

Participants :
- Nile Valley Engineering (Egypt) (Égypte) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thaïlande) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Glasgow (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 69000.0 €
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 216200.0 €
- University of Lleida (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110400.0 €
- Global energy interconnection research institute europe gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 55200.0 €
- Jiangsu jinhe energy technology co ltd (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Illinois System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- National Research Council (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 105800.0 €
- Nanyang Technological University (Singapour) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Zhejiang University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Simon Fraser University (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Antofagasta (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- User feedback program sl (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 46000.0 €
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Kelvin thermotech ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36800.0 €