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News - Participation and Presentation of CanmetENERGY in the 23 rd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration
Participation and Presentation of CanmetENERGY in the 23 rd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration 2011-09-09 – Two experts from CanmetENERGY took part in the 23 rd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, which took place from August 21-26, 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic. The experts took part in several sessions. One of them also chaired the session entitled “Solar and waste heat cooling. Solar-assisted heat pumps.”, and presented the results of a CFD analysis ...
News - Participation in the 10 th French-Quebec Interuniversity Conference on System Thermics
Participation in the 10 th French-Quebec Interuniversity Conference on System Thermics 2011-06-28 – Experts from CanmetENERGY took part in the 10 th French-Quebec Interuniversity Conference on System Thermics, which took place on June 20-22 in Chicoutimi (Quebec), Canada. They have presented a parametric study of an ammonia-water absorption machine for a decentralized trigeneration system, as well as an experimental study of ice slurry thermal and hydraulic behaviour in a ...
News - CanmetENERGY Contributes to the International Energy Agency Heat Pump Centre’s Newsletter
CanmetENERGY Contributes to the International Energy Agency Heat Pump Centre’s Newsletter 2011-06-06 – CanmetENERGY’s experts co-drafted an article in the latest newsletter of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Heat Pump Centre. The article talks about the role of heat pumps for improving energy efficiency in North America. It describes the objectives to be reached in terms of energy saving in North America within the framework of the IEA’s Energy Efficient ...
News - Nunavut Calls Upon CanmetENERGY to Improve the Energy Efficiency of their Freezers
Nunavut Calls Upon CanmetENERGY to Improve the Energy Efficiency of their Freezers 2011-06-03 – The Government of Nunavut recently called upon CanmetENERGY expertise to improve the energy efficiency of the freezers used in their communities. Because of increasing needs and obsolete installations, Nunavut will proceed to the restoration and construction of new community freezers during the next 5 years. Existing installations are energy intensive, have very high energy costs ...
News - Presentation of Trigeneration in Residential Buildings and Ice Slurry at the ACFAS Congress
Presentation of Trigeneration in Residential Buildings and Ice Slurry at the ACFAS Congress 2011-06-01 – Several experts from CanmetENERGY participated at the 79 th Congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS)  [French-speaking Association for Knowledge], which took place on May 9-13, 2011, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Thousands of francophone researchers from all around met to reflect, discuss and learn under the topic “Curiosity, diversity and ...
News - CanmetENERGY Brings its Expertise to Optimize the Energy Consumption of a Parmalat Dairy Plant
CanmetENERGY Brings its Expertise to Optimize the Energy Consumption of a Parmalat Dairy Plant 2011-05-09 – CanmetENERGY will bring its technical support and expertise to optimize the energy consumption of Parmalat dairy plant in Laverlochère, Quebec. The project includes a process integration study in partnership with the plant’s staff and recommendations for a new refrigeration and/or heat pumps system. The process integration study aims at identifying the best ...
News - Solar Energy Community in Alberta Leads the Way
Solar Energy Community in Alberta Leads the Way 2010-08-13 - An innovative undertaking in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, has project partners and community members celebrating a world record. The Drake Landing Solar Community project is the first large-scale seasonal storage system in the world to deliver 80% of its community’s space heating requirements from solar energy. With this success, the project — currently in its third year of operation — is well on its way to ...
News - CanmetENERGY and the École de technologie supérieure Obtain a Grant for the Development of New Design Tools for Ground-Source Heat Pumps
CanmetENERGY and the École de technologie supérieure Obtain a Grant for the Development of New Design Tools for Ground-Source Heat Pumps 2010-03-22 - CanmetENERGY and the École de technologie supérieure of Montreal have just received a grant for the development of new design tools for ground-source heat pumps. This research project will contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The research project includes the development of tools for: design of ...
News - CFD Modeling using PHOENICS for Refrigeration and Ground-Source Heat Pumps Applications
CFD Modeling using PHOENICS for Refrigeration and Ground-Source Heat Pumps Applications 2010-01-13 – CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modeling using the PHOENICS Software has been discussed in the winter 2009 edition of the PHOENICS newsletter. CFD modeling at CanmetENERGY has focused on two applications: modeling of the fluid flow and heat transfer inside ejectors for use in refrigeration/cooling applications; and modeling the fluid flow and heat transfer inside and ...
News - Innovative Refrigeration Technologies Showcased at the ASHRAE Montreal Conference Dinner
Innovative Refrigeration Technologies Showcased at the ASHRAE Montreal Conference Dinner 2010-01-11 - Innovative refrigeration technologies will be discussed during next conference dinner of ASHRAE Montreal on January 18 th , 2010. Daniel Giguère, technological development specialist at CanmetENERGY, will present some examples of commercial and industrial refrigeration technologies on which research projects are underway at CanmetENERGY and elsewhere in the world. The main ...