Cooling
Many critical items such as food and vaccines require cool storage and transport to ensure their safety, quality and efficacy. We are designing sustainable systems, technologies and processes to safeguard the cold chain of these items, from their production all the way to their distribution.
Our areas of expertise
• Cold economy
• Energy consumption
• Vaccine security
Meet our academic members
Meet our academic members
Thermal and thermo-mechanical energy storage; Industrial decarbonisation; Clean heating and cooling technologies
Vaccine cold-chain; Infectious diseases; Vaccine
Sustainable cooling cold-chain systems
Sustainable cooling; Thermal energy; Energy systems; Sustainable development; Solar energy
Heating and cooling; Energy-food-transport nexus; Emissions; Sustainability; Supply chain
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Birmingham Energy Institute
The Birmingham Energy Institute is driving change in the way we deliver, consume, and think about sustainable energy solutions.