Effective use of Phase Change Material in Bentonite

瑞尔森大学的研究人员正在与麦克利蒙特和拉克（MCR）的岩土工程师合作，开发一种新的可持续储热技术，以解决安大略省以有意义的方式阻碍地质交换采用的主要挑战。将开发一种基于建筑浆料的创新储热介质，并将其作为地下储热介质，与地源热泵相结合，提供高性能的建筑供暖和制冷。这种新的廉价技术将能够有效地与太阳能加热相结合，使其与天然气相比更具成本竞争力，从而导致建筑行业的采用率提高，二氧化碳排放量大幅减少。这项拟议研究的新颖之处在于将相变材料包含在膨润土中，用于地下储存介质。MCR岩土工程师将建造并测试一个全尺寸的原型。在该项目结束时，该团队将开发出一种新的地下储热和地源热泵产品和服务，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.