Effective use of Phase Change Material in Bentonite

Ryerson大学的研究人员正在与McClymont and Rak(MCR)岩土工程师合作，开发一种新的可持续热存储技术，以应对阻碍安大略省有效采用地质交换的主要挑战。将开发一种基于建筑泥浆的创新蓄热介质，并将其用作地下蓄热介质，与地源热泵相结合，为建筑物提供高性能的供暖和制冷。这种新的、廉价的技术将能够有效地与太阳能供暖相结合，使其在成本上比天然气更具竞争力，从而在建筑领域获得更多的采用并大幅减少二氧化碳排放。这项拟议的研究的最新成果是将相变材料添加到膨润土L中，用于地下存储介质。MCR岩土工程师将建造和测试一个全尺寸的原型。在这个项目结束时，该团队将开发出一种新的地下蓄热和地源热泵产品和服务，并将准备好全面实施。

Researchers at Ryerson University are collaborating with McClymont and Rak (MCR) geotechnical engineersto develop a new sustainable thermal storage technology that addresses the main challenges that have preventedgeoexchange adoption in a meaningful way in Ontario. An innovative thermal storage medium, based on aconstruction slurry will be developed and used as an underground thermal storage medium, coupled to a groundsource heat pump, to provide high-performance building heating and cooling. This new, inexpensivetechnology will be able to be effectively integrated with solar heating, making it more cost competitive withnatural gas, leading to increased adoption and considerable CO2 emissions reduction in the building sector.The newness of this proposed research is the inclusion of phase change material in bentonite l for use in theunderground storage medium. MCR geotechnical engineers will be building and testing a full-scale prototype.At the conclusion of this project, the team will have developed a new underground thermal storage and groundsource heat pump product and service offering that will be ready for full scale implementation.