Thermal Energy Recovery and Storage for Sewage Treatment Plants

服务成套污水处理系统。BMSna发现，即使在寒冷的冬天，他们的污水处理系统排出的污水也相当温暖。该公司希望开发一种技术来利用这种热能。虽然在污水处理系统方面经验丰富，但BMSna并不具备分析可用热能所需的热力学和传热方面的专业知识。该项目由公司与申请人在纪念大学的研究团队合作进行，目的是对污水处理厂进行热流体建模，并针对特定的热能回收问题提出概念系统设计。然后，BMSna可以将研究结果用于可行性研究、原型设计和开发。如果成功，热能回收和储存技术将大大增加现有和新的污水处理厂的能源和环境优势。这些电厂不仅将以更高的效率和可靠性运行，而且还可以为热水或空间供暖提供有用的热量，这对北方偏远的社区尤其有益。在减少污染和减少对处理后的水排放地点的生物系统的干扰方面，也有显著的环境效益。这项研究项目的成果可以为加拿大实现可持续发展的努力作出重大贡献。

services packaged sewage treatment systems. BMSna finds that effluent from their sewage treatment systems isquite warm, even in cold winter. The company wants to develop a technology to harness this thermal energy.Though experienced in sewage treatment systems, BMSna does not have the expertise in thermodynamics andheat transfer that is needed to analyze the available thermal energy. With a partnership between the companyand the applicant's research team at Memorial University, the objective of this Engage project is to conductthermal fluids modeling of the sewage treatment plant and come up with a conceptual system design for thespecific thermal energy recovery problem. BMSna can then use the research results for their feasibility study,prototype design and development. If successful, the thermal energy recovery and storage technology willgreatly increase the energy and environmental advantages of existing and new sewage treatment plants. Theplants will not only operate at higher efficiency and reliability, but can also provide useful heat for hot water orspace heating, which would be particularly beneficial to remote communities in the north. There are alsosignificant environmental benefits in terms of reduced pollution and less disturbance to biology systems at thetreated water discharge locations. The outcomes of this research project could make significant contribution toCanada's efforts towards sustainable development.