Up-cycling plastic waste for distributed passive cooling applications

CoolChips aims to develop upcycled passive cooling materials from food-packaging polymers to combat climate change and reduce plastic waste, enabling affordable cooling solutions for various applications.

Subsidie
€ 150.000
2022

Projectdetails

Introduction

CoolChips addresses two grant challenges of our modern society:

  1. Global warming requires new technologies to mitigate the ever-accelerating consequences of climate change. Passive daytime cooling is such an emerging technology that requires intricate photonic engineering of materials.
  2. Plastic waste is evolving as an increasing challenge to keep our environment pollution-free.

Project Overview

We, therefore, will investigate an up-cycling strategy to put used food-packaging polymers to an even better use mitigating global warming. Consequently, we outline synthetic strategies to equip aluminum laminate polymer films, widely known for chips bags, etc., with an additional coating.

Coating Design

This coating layer combination will be designed so that:

  • Solar radiance will be fully reflected
  • Thermal radiation in the mid-infrared range will be efficiently emitted

This unique combination of optical properties is the key to using cold outer space as a heat sink for our environment, day and night.

Methodology

We will achieve this goal by using our knowledge in polymer and composite materials synthesis and processing. We will further develop scalable processing strategies to glue or weld the individual recycling pieces to large passive cooling foils.

Upcycling and Applications

This upcycling is vital for the envisioned transition to end-user products that can then be realized by established roll-to-roll processing technologies. Foreseeable application cases such as:

  • Covers for tents
  • Glue-able foils for blinds
  • Stand-alone parasols

will be investigated with established industry partners.

Intellectual Property and Market Strategy

The development of the required processing steps and material selection will be tightly accompanied by an intellectual property patenting strategy and market analysis to ensure optimum exploitation of this promising novel material development.

Conclusion

Overall, CoolChips will make passive daytime cooling materials accessible to various communities, providing a green and affordable way to cooler environments.

Financiële details & Tijdlijn

Financiële details

Subsidiebedrag€ 150.000
Totale projectbegroting€ 150.000

Tijdlijn

Startdatum1-8-2022
Einddatum31-1-2024
Subsidiejaar2022

Partners & Locaties

Projectpartners

  • UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTHpenvoerder

Land(en)

Germany

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