Project

Products transportation in refrigerated vehicles is an energy-consuming activity that requires extra fuel consumption in order to feed the compressor-driven Air Conditioning System. At the same time, the vehicles waste a high amount of energy as flue gas sensible heat and in the engine cooling circuit. A cooling system technology able to exploit the waste heat driving a heat pump would lead to a considerable fuel saving and to an improvement of the overall vehicle efficiency with positive consequences in reduction of greenhouses gases emissions.

HP-ACS project is focused on an innovative heat pump technology based on the adsorption/desorption of hydrogen gas on hydriding metal alloys solid beds to be applied for onboard vans refrigeration.

The SMEs proposers COIBENT CAR, READER, AERFRIGOR and ADMATIS have identified in the expertise developed by the RTD performers ENEA and LABOR real applicative potentialities and a positive starting point for the development of a competitive refrigerated vans ACS.