During the spring festival this year, i2Cool Ltd was invited to attend the “PropTech innovation challenge” ceremony held by Emaar, the largest real estate development company in Dubai. i2Cool was selected asthe final winner among more than 200 outstanding applications worldwide. The innovative electricity-free cooling technology will help the Middle East step towards carbon neutrality and promote global energy-saving technology development.
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Dubai, located in the tropics, has a typical desert climate and scarce natural resources. Emaar properties launch several challenge projects and are looking for partnerships with start-ups and scale-ups worldwide to address the current environmental ，challenges and improve the effective use of natural resources.——Emaar， is the largest real estate development company in Dubai and is known for various large-scale projects, such as developing Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.)
In 2022, i2Cool participated the "sustainability or circular economy challenge" initiated by Emaar. The challenge aims to find sustainability within the construction and real estate industry. The electricity-free cooling technology provides， Emaar with cooling solutions to reduce the temperature of the building. The technology also helps achieve the goal of zero carbon emissions and moving the Middle East towards carbon neutrality.
In the end, i2Cool was selected from more than 200 outstanding startups worldwide and invited to the "PropTech innovation challenge" ceremony in Dubai, where it washonoured as the final winner.
iPaint helps cool buildings and save energy
i2Cool Ltd is co-founded by Dr Martin ZHU, his supervisor Dr Edwin Chi-Yan TSO from the School of Energy and Environment, CityU, and the scientific research team. The core technology is the self-developed passive radiative cooling technology.
i2cool's product is inspired by the hair structure of Saharan ants. To maintain its low body temperature in the scorching desert, the ant has a particular structure in its surface hairs that allows sunlight to penetrate the surface layer, keeps refracting inside, and emits heat energy as infrared radiation into space.
The i2Cool team has integrated the technology into a mixture of polymers and nanoparticles to create a coating product that can be easily covered on the surface of objects -iPaint. It uses the mechanism of reflecting sunlight and passive radiative cooling in the hair structure of ants. By applying iPaint to the building, it can effectively radiate heat to outer space in the mid-infrared (reflectivity> 95%) and reflect the majority of sunlight (radiance > 95%),producing the cooling electricity-free cooling effect without the use of energy or refrigerant. It successfully reduces the energy consumption of air conditioners while providing a cooling effect and reducing emissions.
Take a chance on the Belt one Road Initiatives to explore the global energy-saving market
When applied to the surface of a building, iPaint can reduce indoor temperatures by 6 to 8 degrees Celsius without electricity, which is expected to save at least 40% of the electricity consumed by air conditioners. This technology is particularly suitable for use in countries and regions with long-term hot climates, such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
In recent years, countries along the "Belt and Road Initiative" actively encouraged green transformation, vigorously developed ecological products and green products market, and promoted the development of green industries. Thus, i2Cool Ltd has a broader market prospect. In the future, i2Cool will keep deepening its integration into the Greater Bay Area’s industrial chain. The company will seize the opportunity of "the Belt and Road initiative", network with nations around the world, actively develop a green industry focused on environmental protection, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction, achieve win-win market cooperation, and encourage more nations and regions to transition to a carbon-neutral economy.
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