Nanoporous materials for water-based adsorption chillers

气候变化对加拿大乃至整个地球来说都是一个重要问题。传统的冷却技术消耗大量电力，并使用氟化合物作为制冷剂，这对全球变暖有很大贡献。Enersion开发了一种冷却技术，可以节省70%的电力和水作为制冷剂。Enersion技术的一个关键组成部分是纳米多孔材料，它可以吸附水蒸气，在冷却器和冷库溶液中产生冷却效果。与多伦多大学的Cynthia Goh教授合作的目标是利用Goh教授30多年来制造和研究纳米材料的经验，以可扩展的工艺创造出新的、更好的纳米多孔材料，这些材料可以潜在地用于Enersion的商业产品。一种比Enersion目前使用的材料更有效地吸附和解吸水蒸气的材料可能意味着在更小的足迹产品中以更少的电力消耗实现相同数量的冷却。可扩展的生产流程将允许Enersion在当地生产，创造当地就业机会，并防止可能因进口而出现的供应链问题。

Climate change is an important issue for Canada and the planet as a whole. Traditional cooling technology consumes considerable electricity and uses fluorinated compounds as refrigerants that contribute greatly to global warming. Enersion has developed a cooling technology that uses 70% less electricity, and water as a refrigerant. A key component of Enersion's technology is the nanoporous material that adsorbs water vapour to produce the cooling effect in their chillers and cold storage solutions. The goal of this collaboration with Professor Cynthia Goh at the University of Toronto is to take advantage of Professor Goh's more than 30 years of experience making and studying nanomaterials to create new and better nanoporous materials in a scalable process, that can be potentially used in Enersion's commercial products. A material that more efficiently adsorbs and desorbs water vapour than what Enersion currently uses could mean the same amount of cooling is achieved with even less electricity consumption in a smaller footprint product. A scalable production process will allow Enersion to manufacture locally, creating local jobs and preventing supply chain issues that could arise with importation.