EU CONSORTIUM DEVELOPS ECO-FRIENDLY HOME CHP AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS

BY KEITH NUTHALL A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is designing a CHP system that will simultaneously produce electricity, cold and heat for domestic use, while emitting significantly less pollution than existing technology. The key aim of the PolySMART project is to downsize such technology, already used in large buildings - such as sports centres, hotels and factories - to the home. There are 32 organisations from eight European countries spending Euro 14.3 million over four years. Spain's IKERLAN-IK4 Centre for Technological Research is building a pilot ...


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