Paper No 048 – NEDO R&D Project for Innovative Thermal Management – 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference, Jeju, Korea
A national R&D project “Research and Development Project for Innovative Thermal Management Materials and Technologies” in NEDO is introduced in this paper. In this project, technology developments are conducted to Reduce (which technologies for reducing heat usage; thermal insulation, heat shield and thermal energy storage), Reuse (which technologies for reusing heat; heat pump technologies) and Recycle (which technologies for reusing heat by converting it; thermoelectric energy conversion, waste heat power generation) unutilized thermal energy effectively, including total thermal management based on the combination of these technologies, and realize a future energy-efficient society. This paper focuses on high temperature heat pumps and its new refrigerants.