Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/M65038/01
Title:	A NOVEL AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES
Principal Investigator:	Riffat, Professor S
Other Investigators:	Reay, Professor D Reay, Professor D
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Project Partners:	Isoterix Ltd
Department:	Sch of the Built Environment
Organisation:	University of Nottingham
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	28 February 2000	Ends:	27 February 2002	Value (£):	122,092
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Building Ops & Management Heat & Mass Transfer
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Throughout the world, vehicle manufacturers are seeking cost-effective and environmentally acceptable ways to air condition vehicles. The proposed project describes a new air conditioning system which would be driven by heat and would use adsorption heat pipes. The first stage of the work programme will involve preliminary screening of different refrigerant/adsorbent combinations and computer modelling of the proposed system. Testing of selected refrigerant/adsorbent combinations will be carried out in the second stage of the work programme whiled the final stage will involve construction and monitoring of a prototype unit. The proposed air conditioning system would have potentially high performance and should be reliable, economically attractive and compact.
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