Num. Contratto:
228882

Coordinatore: THERMACORE EUROPE LTD (Regno Unito)

Responsabile ENEA: BORSELLA ELISABETTA - TERIN-DEC-H2V (CASACCIA)

Ruolo ENEA: PARTNER

Sito Web: Sito WEB non disponibile

Programma Quadro: Settimo Programma Quadro R&ST (2007-2013)

Programma UE: NANOTECNOLOGIE (2007-2013) - Nanoscienze, nanotecnologie, materiali e nuove tecnologie di produzione

Area Tematica: Nanotechnology - processes

Tipo Progetto: CP - Progetto di collaborazione

Descrizione:

Henix will translate promising laboratory based nanotechnology results into pilot lines for the production of nanofluid coolants. This project, conceived and led by its European industrial partners, is designed to improve the competitiveness of European industry by developing new and more efficient cooling technologies and processes; specifically a new, state of the art, nanofluid coolant with a significantly enhanced technological capabilities that will transform the design and performance of thermal management systems. Nanofluid coolants represent a new exploitation of nanotechnology that has only become possible as a result of recent advances in nanoparticle production and dispersion technology. The beneficial adoption of nanofluid coolants usually requires re-design of the whole system including heat exchangers, pumps, pipe work and operating points. The gains come from a subtle re-balancing of the pump power, heat losses, plant cost and thermal efficiency. Flow regimes and the geometry of cooling channels play a key role. Understanding how to design systems to realise these benefits is a bottleneck to industrial adoption of nanofluids coolants. The mechanism of how heat transfer is facilitated by nanoparticles in carrier fluids is not clearly understood by the global research community. Analytical Models as yet do not fully explain and predict the thermal performance of nanofluid coolants. The advancement of this knowledge will enable engineers to readily design heat systems using nanofluid coolants. The most promising application opportunities for nanofluid coolants reside in large information data centres containing computer servers and racks, power electronics and power electronics for electric drives. The project will stimulate and accelerate the industrial take-up of nanofluid coolants used to innovate next generation heat exchangers to more effectively cool equipment and machinery, significantly reducing energy consumption and costs by up to 50%.

Attività svolta da ENEA:

L’ENEA, partner del Progetto HENIX, avrà un ruolo significativo in varie fasi del Progetto, contribuendo sia all’ottimizzazione della formulazione dei nano fluidi da implementare a livello industriale che allo sviluppo dei dimostratori e coordinando l’attività di Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) e del Risk Assessment (RA).

Note:

Posizione:
1087

Codice Atto:
0CG62

Atto di approvazione ENEA:
51/2009/COMM, 110/2012/COMM

Unità alla stipula:
TER-ENETERM

Costo eleggibile del Progetto: 8.330.000,00

Contributo al Progetto: 6.100.000,00

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Costo eleggibile per ENEA: 752.372,00

Contributo ad ENEA: 566.988,00

Anno di stipula:
2009

Durata in mesi:
42

Data di inizio:
01-09-2009

Data di scadenza:
28-02-2013