| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L63426/01 |
| Title: |
STUDIES INTO THE THERMAL AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF ICE SLURRIES FOR LOW ENERGY COOLING APPLICATIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Tassou, Professor S |
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| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Brunel University London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1998 |
Ends: |
30 September 2001 |
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143,524
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Building Ops & Management |
Energy Efficiency |
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With increasing pressures on building owners and operators to adopt systems with minimum impact on the environment, building service engineers are faced with some difficult choices which entail a high degree of uncertainty. Although in rural areas and greenfield sites it may be possible to avoid air conditioning through the design of buildings for natural ventilation, in built-up areas and buildings with high internal heat gains the avoidance of air conditioning is not always possible.It is therefore necessary to investigate alternative cooling technologies in terms of their energy and environmental performance and adopt systems which offer minimum impact on the environment. Ice thermal storage and in particular ice slurry offers the potential for significantly reducing the energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases arising from air conditioning installations. For wider adoption of these systems by the building sevices industry, however, there is a need for engineering information regarding the thermophysical and transport properties of ice slurries and wide dissemination of design and operating guidance. In this project we aim to address this problem by carrying out comprehensive and extensive investigations on the thermal and transport properties of ice slurries on a test facility which will be built in the mechanical engineering laboratories at Brunel University. The properties of ice slurries on a test facility will be based around a 25kW nominal capacity chiller already contributed by Danham Bush Ltd and an ice-slurry making machine which will be purchased and contributed for the purposes of the project by EPS Ltd.
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http://www.brunel.ac.uk |