Breakout Session - Focus on Innovative Technologies/Applications
May 30, 2024
Rooms 15, 16, 19
11:00 am - 11:50 am
Fuel-Switching Hydronic Systems with Air-to-Water Heat Pumps
Room 15
Recent advances in air-to-water heat pumps have made the technology a compelling all-electric solution for hydronic heating systems, which are more prevalent in some regions. Attend this session to learn how the hydronic sector can embrace the opportunity to provide low-carbon solutions for their customers.
J Kelly Hearnsberger
Daniel Torres
Tim Wright
Geoexchange: Why is the Best Cold Climate Heat Pump so Under-Appreciated?
Room 16
Geoexchange or geothermal heat pumps (GHX) have a long history of successful application in North America and Internationally. They use reversible heat pumps to take advantage of ambient-temperature energy and energy storage in the shallow earth, which provides more favourable supply temperatures than the outdoor air in heating and cooling seasons. With a host of other advantages, this ‘Best cold climate heat pump ever!’ is an excellent solution in the current growing building electrification market. Successful and optimal application of GHX requires an understanding of several unique and nuanced considerations. Lack of awareness, experience, and industry capacity can lead to GHX being under-appreciated among the myriad solutions on offer to stakeholders today. In this session, three industry leaders with decades of experience will provide a short overview of GHX and their views on why it deserves more attention and appreciation.
Ruben Arrellano
Jeff Quibell
Stuart Yanow
Turn Your Wastewater into Opportunity
Room 19
This presentation shows how wastewater, an often overlooked yet highly impactful source of clean energy, can be leveraged for heating and cooling applications for sustainable building projects. Learn how to use wastewater to reduce energy costs, water consumption and CO2 emissions using the latest generation of highly specialized, all-in-one wastewater heat pumps & systems that make WET easy to include in your sustainable building toolkit. Participants will be exposed to the principles of wastewater energy transfer (WET) and will get a basic understanding of how they can harness wastewater as a thermal energy resource.
Lynn Mueller