Development of a thermally enhanced nano-material for ground energy storage

开发用于地面储能的热增强纳米材料

• 批准号: 520259-2017
• 负责人: Dworkin, Seth
• 金额: $ 13.46万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=694087
• 关键词: Development; thermally; enhanced; nano; material

Researchers at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and McMaster University are collaborating with McClymont and Rak geotechnical engineers to develop a new sustainable thermal storage technology that addresses the main challenges that have prevented geoexchange adoption in a meaningful way in Canada. An innovative thermal storage medium, based on a construction slurry will be developed and used as an underground thermal storage system, coupled to a ground source heat pump, to provide high-performance building heating and cooling. This new, inexpensive technology will be able to be effectively integrated withsolar heating, making it more cost competitive with natural gas, leading to increased adoption and considerableCO2 emissions reduction in the building sector.Nano-material experts at the University of Toronto will be developing and testing new nano-engineered bentonite materials for use in the underground storage medium. Civil engineering researchers at McMaster University will be testing the heat transfer and thermal storage characteristics of those materials in a laboratory scale deep ground emulator. Mechanical engineering researchers at Ryerson will be building computer models of the technical functionality and economic feasibility of the system. The team will look forward to full scale implementation with the company partner at their testing site, for data acquisition, model validation, and togain an understanding of the technical and economic feasibility of the technology.

瑞尔森大学、多伦多大学和麦克马斯特大学的研究人员正在与McClymont和Rak岩土工程师合作，开发一种新的可持续蓄热技术，以解决加拿大阻碍Geexchange采用的主要挑战。将开发一种基于建筑泥浆的创新型储热介质，并将其用作地下储热系统，与地源热泵耦合，以提供高性能的建筑供暖和制冷。这种新的、廉价的技术将能够有效地与太阳能加热相结合，使其在成本上比天然气更具竞争力，从而增加建筑业的采用率和减少二氧化碳排放。多伦多大学的纳米材料专家将开发和测试用于地下储存介质的新型纳米工程膨润土材料。麦克马斯特大学的土木工程研究人员将在实验室规模的深地层模拟器中测试这些材料的传热和储热特性。瑞尔森大学的机械工程研究人员将建立该系统的技术功能和经济可行性的计算机模型。该团队将期待与公司合作伙伴在其测试现场进行全面实施，以获取数据，验证模型，并了解该技术的技术和经济可行性。