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

Ryerson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热存储技术，以应对阻碍加拿大以有意义的方式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储热介质，并将其用作地下储热系统，与地源热泵相结合，以提供高性能的建筑物供暖和制冷。这项新的廉价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，从而在建筑行业获得更多的采用并大幅减少二氧化碳排放。**多伦多大学的纳米材料专家将开发和测试用于地下存储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模拟器中测试这些材料的热传递和储热特性。Ryerson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他们的测试现场全面实施，进行数据获取、模型验证，并**了解该技术的技术和经济可行性。

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 with**solar heating, making it more cost competitive with natural gas, leading to increased adoption and considerable**CO2 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 to**gain an understanding of the technical and economic feasibility of the technology.