EXPAND
Development of an expansion valve to reduce energy consumption of cold vending machines and small commercial refrigeration systems
| Coordinatore | Re/gent B.V.
Organization address
address: Lagedijk 22 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 2˙003˙420 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙574˙460 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2013 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME-AG |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-11-01 - 2016-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Re/gent B.V.
Organization address
address: Lagedijk 22 contact info |
NL (Helmond) | coordinator | 93˙760.00 |
| 2 |
EUROPEAN VENDING ASSOCIATION AISBL
Organization address
address: RUE VAN EYCK 44 contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | participant | 411˙368.00 |
| 3 |
NOVUM (OVERSEAS) LIMITED
Organization address
address: CLONSHUAGH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE contact info |
IE (DUBLIN) | participant | 337˙446.00 |
| 4 |
FRIGOCON INDUSTRIA DE FRIO E CONGELACAO SA
Organization address
address: RUA DAS CALCADAS 568 contact info |
PT (TOUGUINHA) | participant | 335˙257.00 |
| 5 |
"Vending Marketing trgovina, storitve, marketing d.o.o."
Organization address
address: Maroltova ulica 6 contact info |
SI (Ljubljana) | participant | 287˙589.00 |
| 6 |
NEW WAVE INNOVATION LIMITED
Organization address
address: HIGH STREET 1 EVINGTON contact info |
UK (LEICESTER) | participant | 65˙200.00 |
| 7 |
INRAY SOLUTIONS LTD
Organization address
address: MLADOST 3 COMPLEX BL 302 ENT 4 FL 1 AP 47 contact info |
BG (SOFIA) | participant | 43˙840.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The European Vending Association (EVA) is composed of 20 national associations, who represent Europe's SME industry of machine and component manufacturers, suppliers of commodities (ingredients, confectionery, soft drinks) and operators. Our chilled vending sector is heavily based on older HFC refrigerant technology. In contrast Japan has embraced natural refrigerants and is the leading manufacturer of CO2 and HC vending machines. As a result, our industry needs to innovate and develop advanced components and systems, to remain competitive and provide cost effective, energy efficient products. Small refrigeration systems as used in vending machines use capillaries as the expansion device, however they do not enable optimal operation over the range of refrigeration loads. Away from design point load, coefficient of performance drops due to sub-optimal filling of the evaporator. More advanced control systems may be introduced by replacing the capiliary with an expansion valve, however for refrigeration systems in the 50-250W capacity they are challenging to manufacture cost effectively, due to small orifice sizes. As a result the Expand project will develop a low cost expansion device for HC and CO2 refrigerants together with a control system that will enable efficient modulation of refrigeration system capacity in relation to load. This will enable cumulative energy consumption savings of 25% for the cooler in relation to present HFC systems, thus regaining a technological lead for the European vending industry. In order to mitigate the need for small orifices we will use fluid flow control concepts that have been developed for fuel injection systems for aerospace and automotive application.'