FREEIJIS 2.

FREE ENERGY WAY OF LIVING

Cooling system wich uses no electricity

FREEIJIS : Free > available, indipendent, for all Friji > (in Swahili language) fresh, pure S > entropy symbol

Project by

Caterina Falleni

// ISSUE // an energy sustainable problem

Why projecting a cooling system which uses alternative energy sources instead

The WORLD is RUNNING OUT of natural RESOURCES

Non-Renewable Resources
Bauman Consuming Lifestyle
natural gas petroleum coal

IN ITALY
DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION DOMESTIC ENERGY

33%
OF TOTAL COUNTRY

OF ELECTRICITY

50%

WASTE THAN REAL NECESSITY

70%

Consumo dunque sono

Renewable resources
sun biomass wind water geothermal energies etc...
FRIDGE 33%
kith cen 10%
hou

WASTE than real necessity

ON GOING USE

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14%

ARE THESE SOLUTIONS?

running out resources as silicon)

Maybe yes or maybe not ( for ex: photovoltaic

energy has low efficiency and is made by non-renewable and
te wa r2 4%

70%

heating 52%

Confesercenti sources 2011

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// THE IDEA // new cooling system

evaporative cooling

LOW TECH

+
flask

PCM (Phase Change Material)

HIGH TECH

sweat

rural african fridge

PCM capsules

PCM powder

Crystal Glass

Thermodynamical physical phenomenon through which it has a cooling, as a result of evaporation of a liquid. one can maintein a constant temperature Sweating is a natural example of this principle, thanks to which

Latent heat accumulators, they exploit the transition phases to absorb and store a large amount of energy, while maintaining their temperature constant.

FREEIJIS SYSTEM
Refrigeration system that does not use electricity. with the PCM capsules. The cooling is induced by the evaporation of the liquid, along

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// EVAPORATIVE COOLING // from africa and our body to an object and to our home

T
AIR MOVEMENT

solar radiation is transfered to the system as heat and energy

sand and water are heated, starting the evaporation process

2
some energy of the system is absorbed by the evaporation

the wet exterior walls of the system, cause a greater evaporation, and so a greater loss of energy

5 3
the system attempts to restore the balance by absorbing energy (as heat) from the inside, thus lowering its temperature

T
temperature goes down

4
porous material transmitter and absorber where PCM could have an important role (as microincapsulate or meld)

good energy transmitter

Thats how evaporative cooling works

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// PCM // from NASA to our home

is a substance with a high heat of fusion which, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature, is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy. Heat is absorbed or released when the material changes from solid to liquid and vice versa; thus, PCMs are classified as latent heat storage (LHS) units.

250 200 150 100 50 kJ/Kg 0

Capacity to store and accumulate thermic energy water stone wood paraffin wax plastic

Gas

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Solid

Freezing Melting

Liquid
PURE

CLASSIFICATION
CAPSULES MELD

1975 experimental for astronauts clothes

2009 crystal glass application

Paraffine wax

microscope image of PCM microcapsules blend with plaster to daub

piling matrix with 20% of PCM

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FREEIJIS 2.0

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// FREEIJIS

1.0 // experimental product to preserve food at home

Materials: ceramic, alluminum, water and glass foam (the inner layer has a really important role, and I made many different could be the best solution experimentation with different materials, but in my opinion PCM

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// FREEIJIS

1.0
EVAPORATION

Feedback temperature with cromogenic materials

T ext 20c

RADIATION

FORCE
capillarity
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FORCE CONVECTION

CONVECTION

EVAPORATION

T int 10c

21 20 Temperatura esterna TEMPO in ore 1 5 10 20 50 90 Temperatura interna 19 18 17 16 15 14 TEMPERATURA in C 13 12 11 10

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// FREEIJIS

2.0

NEW COOLING SYSTEM

// design and experimentation of domestic refrigeration equipment that use the Freeijis system combined with PCM // experimenting nanotechnologic porous materials, that are able of doing evaporate more or less liquid by varying the size of their pores, to achieve a total control of the internal temperature

experimental ideas

PCM specific application

macro encapsulated
inside the cavity where occours the evaporation of the liquid and the change of state of the same PCM

immersion of PCM like paraffin in a porous support such as ceramics

bound material

Freeijis 2.0 not as system, but as product and tecnhnology on marketplace

FREEIJIS 2.0
DOMESTIC COOLING SYSTEM
that uses natural energy instead of electricity, exploiting technological innovation of smart materials

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS //

FOOD

MEDICAL

CONSTRUCTION

CLOTHES

preservation
conservation in domestic environment and beyond,

trasportation
emergency medicines transportation in western countries, medicines transportation and storage in developing walls, ceilings, windows composite materials, buildings matress, blanket, coat, gloves, ....

HOW FREEIJIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD

food transportation

instead standard domestig fridge electricity 33% saving

i.e.

instead cooling apparat (3/4c) oil 30% saving

i.e.

i.e. instead

air conditioner electricity 20% saving

lifestyle improvement

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FREEIJIS 2.0

// CONCLUSIONS // FREEIJIS

SYSTEM

FREEIJIS

1.0

FREEIJIS

2.0

PCM
10c

PCM
experimental product about domestic food preservation process with evaporative cooling

assimilation by the public of the FREEIJIS system as a method of cooling, natural and effective, that can be applied to other hypothesized fields

cooling system that does not use electricity

domestic food preservation product, that works by evaporative cooling technology + PCM and smart materials (possibility to be on the market before 2015)

WHY FREEIJIS?
To embark on a path which starting point is energy indipendence and sustainability (particularly in Italy, in the first places of the energy-importing countries)

To use technology to macro-reproduce a micro-natural pprocess that has evolved and perfected over millions of years: the sweating

To save exhaustible fossile resources toward the use of a clean and natural energy

Caterina Falleni

FREEIJIS 2.0