{"rewrite":{"id":"r_623297f5a684fff468c6181e","clusterId":"c_3204dca19946813c7ed17c3c","slug":"mque-reaches-phase-c-of-nedo-heat-pump-program","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MQue Reaches Phase C of NEDO Heat Pump Program","summary":"MQue Inc. has been selected for Phase C of NEDO's New Energy SME and Startup Support Program, moving up from Phase B in fiscal 2024, the company announced. The Phase C work runs two years, from October 2026 to September 2028, and covers a heat pump heat exchanger design platform built on computational fluid dynamics, AI surrogate models, and design optimization. The stated target is the shift to low-GWP refrigerants such as propane.","whyItMatters":"The heat exchanger is where empirical design tools lose accuracy once refrigerants and geometries change, so MQue's Phase C proposal is aimed at the part of the low-GWP transition that forces experiment-based trial and error.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe theme selected is development of a heat exchanger design platform for heat pumps across diverse applications. In a heat exchanger, refrigerant repeatedly boils and condenses into a gas-liquid two-phase flow, a condition MQue says is hard to predict. With propane (R290) and other low-GWP refrigerants, MQue says the empirical-formula tools common in the industry lose accuracy and calibration data takes time to prepare, pushing design toward experiment-based trial and error. MQue plans to build the platform around CFD, AI surrogate models, and optimization, with an eye beyond household air conditioners to commercial and industrial heat pumps.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Phase C buys MQue two years to prove AI surrogate models can cut heat exchanger design cycles, but the propane target means every design must clear flammability safety reviews too.","twitterPost":"MQue's Phase C runs two years to make propane heat exchangers viable, and the safety approval path may matter more than design speed.","threadsPost":"Phase C funds MQue's CFD and AI surrogate platform from October 2026 to September 2028. The low-GWP target is propane, so the hard part is not the optimization loop but getting each design through safety approval for a flammable refrigerant.","newsletterBlurb":"MQue Inc. has been selected for Phase C of NEDO's New Energy SME and Startup Support Program, following Phase B in fiscal 2024. The company will spend two years from October 2026 on a heat exchanger design and development platform that combines computational fluid dynamics, AI surrogate models, and design optimization. The stated aim is to handle new refrigerants and geometries as the shift to low-GWP refrigerants such as propane continues.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"ASCII.jp\",\"url\":\"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/444/4444414/?rss\",\"title\":\"MQue, which specializes in thermal management, selected for NEDO's \\\"Technology Research and Development Project for Seeds Discovery and Commercialization of New Energy, etc.\\\" Phase C\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4602,"outputTokens":631,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792557433,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T04:32:16.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T04:36:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T04:36:09.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_3204dca19946813c7ed17c3c","canonicalTitle":"熱マネジメントを強みとする「MQue」、NEDO「新エネルギー等のシーズ発掘・事業化に向けた技術研究開発事業」フェーズCに採択","representativeArticleId":"a_5f95cb161671d8d9c74ca1a3","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"business\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-21T01:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-21T01:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T04:36:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"ASCII.jp","url":"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/444/4444414/?rss","title":"熱マネジメントを強みとする「MQue」、NEDO「新エネルギー等のシーズ発掘・事業化に向けた技術研究開発事業」フェーズCに採択"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"business","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}