Technology Services: Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer

Emerging technologies often need an extra push to help them gain market acceptance. Whether it be engineering tools such as manuals, buyer’s guides for the general public or market assessments to determine the most attractive applications, Caneta Research can provide the tools required to help stakeholders promote new technologies.

Caneta Research applies its unique combination of expertise in energy modelling, building HVAC systems, and analysis capabilities to evaluate new and existing technologies and compile the information for dissemination to the client’s audience. Methods of dissimination include design manuals, information booklets, reports, training packages and workshops.

Some high profile technology transfer activities include the the ASHRAE Ground Source Engineering Manual, the commissioning, preventative maintenance and troubleshooting guide for commercial GHP systems for ASHRAE, and a ground source heat pump retrofit guide for the US DOE Federal Energy Management Program. See more details in related links.

Technology Transfer Projects

Design Manuals/Codes

	ASHRAE Commercial/Institutional Ground-Source Heat Pump Manual

• Preparation of the ASHRAE Engineering Manual covering site survey, design, installation specification, commissioning of groundwater, ground heat exchanger and surface water ground source systems for larger commercial/institutional buildings
• Prepared Guideline for retrofit of GSHP systems to electrically heated MURBs for CMHC
• Preparation of a commissioning, preventative maintenance and troubleshooting guide for commercial GHP systems for ASHRAE
• Preparation of retrofit guide for US DOE Federal Energy Management Program;

Market Assessment

• Potential opportunity of gas cooling and refrigeration applications for Union Gas
• A market and economic assessment study of the commercial boiler market in Canada for Natural Resources Canada

Information Booklets/Websites

	Heating and cooling with a heat pump Guide – Courtesy of Natural Resources Canada

• Preparation of a draft Buyer’s Guide to commercial GSHPs for Natural Resources Canada
• Preparation of a draft Buyer’s Guide to residential GSHPs for Natural Resources Canada
• Heating and cooling with a heat pump for Natural Resources Canada
• EnerGuide for industry web page content and case studies for refrigerated vending machines

Training

• Developed ground source training content for residential designers, contractors and commercial designers for the Canadian Geoexchange Coalition
• Delivered two ground source heat pump awareness seminars to non-technical audiences in Edmonton and Toronto in March 2002
• Delivered commercial GSHP design workshops in five principal cities across Canada co-sponsored by Natural Resources Canada in 1999
• Delivered three ground source Design Workshops in Virginia on behalf of Virginia Power in 1996

Case Studies

• Mole Hill Community GSHP system Retrofit case study for CMHC