Novel Controllable High Performance Thermal Storage and Heat Transfer Systems

加拿大丰富的能源供应导致我们在很大程度上依赖能源来维持我们的生活质量，并为我们的关键工业部门提供动力。鉴于全球能源成本和需求的上升，以及对化石燃料在气候变化和健康风险中所起作用的日益关注，迫切需要开发更清洁和可持续的替代能源，作为加拿大能源战略的一部分。热能转换和管理是一项核心技术，可以应用于许多应用，包括从能源系统、车辆和商业或工业过程中捕获废热。这些系统拥有巨大的潜力，可以在短期内增加传统能源，并在未来彻底改变我们生产能源的方式。这项研究的动机是迫切需要新的设备和系统来捕捉这种“失去的”能量。

Canada's abundant energy supply has led to a significant reliance on energy to sustain our quality of life and to power our key industrial sectors. Given the rising cost and demand for energy worldwide as well as the growing concern over the role that fossil fuels play in both climate change and health risks, there is an urgent need to develop cleaner and sustainable alternatives as part of Canada's energy strategy. Thermal energy conversion and management is a core technology that can be applied to numerous applications, including the capture of waste heat from energy systems, vehicles and commercial or industrial processes. These systems hold enormous potential to augment conventional energy sources in the short term and to revolutionize the way we produce energy in the future. This research is motivated by a critical need for novel devices and systems to capture this "lost" energy.