Grant: Engage Grants Program

This project will investigate hydronic baseboard heaters to use with relatively low temperature water (up to45°C) that incorporate a full-length tangential fan to increase heating capacity through mixed convection. Thisproject is supported by Maritime Geothermal, Ltd., Petitcodiac, NB. Essential to the design criteria is theability to retrofit existing hydronic heating systems with tangential fan baseboard heaters to improve theefficiency of space heating. Better heating capabilities will allow boiler-based heating systems that usehydronic baseboard heaters to be more effectively retrofitted with geothermal or air source heat pumps, whichhave a lower output temperature than boiler-based systems. This project will provide insights into aneconomical device that can improve the heating capacity of baseboard heaters and enable connecting with ageothermal or air source heat pump. This can reduce fuel consumption, as well as improve thermal comfortlevels for Canadians that rely on baseboard heaters. This project will provide benefits to a medium-sizedomestic company that can help the local economy through increased revenue and job creation.