HEAT4U :: News
2012.10.14 HEAT4U Next Steps
Dissemination is considered a key factor for this project to inform the target users groups and to communicate and exploit project results, to increase the innovative impact at European level. Here you can find the most important events:
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2012.10.13 First results of the HEAT4U Project
The result of the first year of the HEAT4U Project have been introduced during the Conference held in October “HEAT4U. First year, first Results”. The activity has been started from the analysis on market opportunities and value chain of Gas Absorption Heat Pumps for existing residential buildings and the development of the technology, in particular the optimization of the capacity modulation, reducing power consumption and sound pressure.
Moreover, construction of test laboratories at the Politecnico di Milano and at the Fraunhofer Institute was started according to EN12309 protocol. The first prototypes have fully confirmed the performances expected and the solution of the technological challenges posed by this project, namely bringing the Gas Absorption Heat Pump technology into the typical power range of single-family detached residential homes and reaching an estimated global efficiency on primary energy of 150%.
The activity also focused on the development of design and aeroacustic optimization. The work began with an analysis of aeroacustic benchmark with equivalent heat pump units. Then, different design solutions have been carried out. Styling, functionality, innovative, user friendly, robust: these are the keywords of the design work.
Discover the results of the first year of the HEAT4U Project:
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2012.10.11-12 "First year, first results" Conference
Robur, coordinator of the HEAT4U Project, hosted institutional representatives, managers from top firms and HVAC professionals in a Conference entitled “HEAT4U. 1st year, first results”, held on 11th and 12th October 2012 at Fortezza Viscontea in Cassano d’Adda, near Milan. The conference has hosted an important panel of speakers, from public administrations, research sector and HEAT4U Project Consortium Partners. Aim of the conference was to highlight the latest regulatory scenarios and incentive measures in the field of energy efficiency and thermal renewable energy and and to focus on latest results of Heat4U Project.
2012.05.08 "Create the logo" Contest
The Award Ceremony has been held on the 8th of May, at the Pininfarina headquarters in Cambiano (TO). Together with the three finalists, the ceremony has been attended by representatives of companies taking part to the HEAT4U Project and by some professors of IAAD in Turin (Applied Art and Design Institute) who have joined the initiative, confirming that the contest has created a profitable cooperation between business world and academia...
Find out the finalists and the winner
2012.03.27 First results
The first deliverables of the project have been formalized to the European Commission, in advance of the due date. The Consortium HEAT4U unveils the first encouraging results in solving the technological challenges and bringing the absorption technology in the power range of the typical small residential applications, with an efficiency of heat generation higher than 150% (EN12309)...
2012.01.27 Kick off Meeting
The Kick off meeting for the launch of the Heat4U Project has been held in the Robur Headquarters in Verdellino (Bergamo), Italy on 27th Jan. 2012.
The project partners took part to the KoM introducing their own company and activities within the project.
Attached documents: Group picture - KOM, January 27, 2012
2012.01.26 International Conference
Innovation and technology: this is the two-pronged foundation of HEAT4U, i.e. one of the most important international research projects in the area of climate change and energy efficiency applied to the built environment, which also falls under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) promoted by the European Community...
Read the agenda, the proceedings, watch the videos and the pictures
