Experiments
- State of the art artificial ground freezing rig with various pipe heat exchangers
- Closed loop geothermal heat extraction rig ( low to medium temperature, up to 200 C) with bayonet and helical heat exchangers
- Temperature bath loop with variable frequency drive from -50 to 200 C
- Thermal characterization: density, thermal conductivity, specific heat
- Flow characterization (Newtonian and non-Newtonian)
- Wear (abrasion and erosion) characterization
- Data acquisition system and Labview controler
- Rock-Microwave system 3, 15 and 100 kW
- Access to McGill Geomechanics facility, such as uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) tests for rocks and soils, fracture toughness, core sample preparation, backfill curing room etc.
- Access to McGill common facilities, such as CT-scan, SEM, TEM etc
Simulation
Hardware:
- 1000+ cores of high performance computing at Beluga server, supported by CFI-JELF & RRG Compute Canada
- 16 Dell workstations 16 x 16 cores, 16 x 64 GB RAM.
- Large screen for data visualization
Software:
- ANSYS Fluids+Structural+Electronics
- COMSOL
- LS-DYNA
- EDEM
- Matlab
- Mathematica
- Minitab
- Tecplot
- JMP
- Python
- LaTex
- Microsoft