HTMS showcases its Maxwell nanofluid technology at IDEA District Cooling Conference

ORLANDO, Florida, USA, 20 June 2024: HT Materials Science (HTMS) showcased its patented nanofluid, Maxwell at the 2024 IDEA Conference, from June 17 to 20 in Orlando, Florida, in the United States.

Maxwell helps reduce emissions and increase capacity and savings in commercial and industrial cooling and heating systems, HTMS said. Maxwell contains sub-micron aluminium oxide particles in a base fluid of water or water/glycol that makes the transfer of energy more efficient, the company said. It can be dropped into any system to product results immediately, the company added.

According to HTMS, Maxwell increases thermal energy and heat transfer capacity by up to 15% in existing HVAC systems—which can make a significant dent, given the fact that heating and cooling account for about half of global final energy consumption and 40% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. HTMS said it has completed nearly two-dozen installations globally to date, including at malls, data centres, warehouses, residential complexes and educational campuses for clients such as Amazon, Ericsson Telecom, Regeneron, Saudi Aramco and Tabreed.

The Tabreed project, HTMS said, was at one of Tabreed’s District Cooling plants in Abu Dhabi, which supplies chilled water to a 600,000-square-foot educational campus. Based on the results achieved, HTMS said, Tabreed was able to extrapolate and say that using Maxwell across its 89 District Cooling plants could help it save over 220,000 tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, annually – or the equivalent of removing 43,500 cars from the roads every year.

The installation at Tabreed, HTMS said, would count as one of the company’s marquee projects, considering the District Cooling provider is the world’s largest District Cooling company.

HTMS said cities, communities, campuses and clusters are implementing District Energy infrastructure to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change, cut emissions and provide a more robust, resilient and connected local economy.