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Monitoring Energy Consumption at the Canada Centre ATES Site
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The Canada Centre Building was designed to accommodate 1,900 workers on 12 floors in a 30,000 m2 office structure in Scarborough, Canada. Its unique energy conserving features include 700 m2 of roof mounted solar energy collectors, chillers modified to operate as heat pumps, and an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system operating on four 60 m deep wells producing flows of 10 to 30 L/s from a 10 m thick fine to medium sand aquifer. The ATES and solar domestic hot water heating systems have been used since 1985.
Instrumentation for ATES performance monitoring was installed during construction of the building, for research and verification of geothermal models. Energy monitoring, however, was implemented in 1991, to evaluate the energy consumed in operating various energy conserving systems. Initial data show coefficients of performance (COP) of about 4 to 5 for the ATES and heat pump systems respectively.
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Morofsky, E., Cataford, R., and Mirza, C., "Monitoring Energy Consumption at the Canada Centre ATES Site," SAE Technical Paper 929198, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929198.Also In
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- Hickling Corporation 1990 Canada Centre Building, Scarborough - Five Year Energy Systems Performance Summary IEA ECES Annex 7 Working Group April
- Mirza, C. Lau, K. C. Nadon, R. L. Crawford, A. M. 1985 Aquifer thermal energy storage - a new technology Proceedings, Seventh Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference Saskatoon, Sask. May 1A 389 409
- Morofsky, E. L. 1983 Overview of Canadian aquifer thermal energy storage field trials Proceedings, International Conference on Heat Storage in Theory and Practice Stockholm, Sweden Swedish Council for Building Research 221 231
- Strata Engineering Corp. 1992 Well Efficiency Testing Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System Canada Centre Building, Scarborough Public Works Canada Ontario Region April