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Economic and technical feasibility assessment of decarbonizing British Columbia’s building, transport and industrial sectors with electrification and power-to-gas transitions

This project investigates substitution of fossil fuels with electricity from renewable sources for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia. Burning natural gas, gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products heats our buildings, drives out cars, and powers our industries. Electricity generated from hydro, wind, and solar power can provide those same services, but producing sufficient electricity from variable sources at the right time remains challenging. Converting electricity to gases like hydrogen or methane can be cost-effective to store electricity and deliver energy using gas infrastructure. This project will use mathematical modelling to determine costs, locations, operation and types of power plants, transmission lines, and gas production facilities needed to achieve significant greenhouse gas emission reductions by the year 2050.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Andrew Rowe;Peter Wild

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FortisBC Energy Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Accelerate

Catalysing Network Change: Exploring Practical Tools to Spark Food Network Action

Food systems organizations work brings together planners, community organizers, public health professionals, food producers, distributors and other food champions to transform food systems through direct action in communities, and collective action across organizations and regions. Many regions across Ontario have identified a fundamental challenge: moving from collaboration to action within their region. This includes the challenges of engaging policy-makers; finding ways to identify and include relevant, absent voices; creating a space where uncomfortable conversations can lead to constructive engagement; and agreeing on a specific area of focus in a food system rife with issues, among organizations whose mandates target not only food but health, climate change, poverty and social justice, among others. This project will help to provide pathways to action by collecting and assessing the merits of different approaches used with success in other regions to move from strategy to action.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Charles Levkoe

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Sustain Ontario

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Lakehead University

Programme :

Accelerate

COVID-19, Women’s Mental Health and Therapeutic Recreation in Yukon Territory.

The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of women is currently unknown in Yukon Territory. Women have experienced unemployment, domestic violence and greater caregiving responsibilities because of COVID-19. It is important to support women’s mental health during the pandemic. Therapeutic Recreation is a healthcare profession that uses leisure and recreation to improve health and wellbeing. Therapeutic Recreation provides positive leisure experiences that can reduce the impacts of C19 on women’s mental health. This project aims to support women’s mental health during COVID-19 in Yukon Territory. Women ages 18+ and Recreation Therapists will take part in interviews talking about their mental health. We will share the results with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Yukon Government, academic audiences and educational institutions to help women during COVID-19.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tara-Leigh McHugh

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Canadian Mental Health Association (Yukon)

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; COVID-19 related Research and Solutions

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

Integration of Hybrid Distributed Resources in Three Different Systems With and Without Global Adjustment

The use of hybrid distributed energy resources (HDERs) has grown rapidly during the last decade as a way to reduce the stress placed on the utility grid by society’s ever-expanding power consumption. They consist of fossil fuel generators, battery energy storage systems, and renewable energy systems and can be designed to interact with the grid in various system architectures to supply end-user loads. It is important to size and integrate HDERs appropriately so that they can meet load demands, while still being cost-effective. The proposed project, which will be a collaboration between researchers from Western University and AVL Manufacturing in Hamilton ON, will be concerned with the design of new HDERs and will focus on three HDER architectures. These new HDERs will be commercialized by AVL and promise to make AVL an industry leader in HDER system technology.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gerry Moschopoulos

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AVL Manufacturing Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

Environmentally friendly adhesion promoter compositions for multilayer coating applications

In the first year of the proposed project, we will explore and optimize the application of environmentally friendly solvents for organosilane adhesion promoters that are used in the production of HSS by Canusa-CPS. In the second year, the shelf-life and lifetime of such products will be investigated using accelerated testing procedures. The results of the proposed research project will be beneficial to Canusa-CPS for the development of environmentally friendly adhesion promoters and lay the groundwork for new testing methods that predict the lifetime of HSS products. The proposed research will also create unique opportunities for the training of highly qualified personnel by exposing them to real-world technical and industrial challenges.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hamed Shahsavan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SFL Canusa Canada Ltd.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Consuming Social Media Services on Heterogeneous Devices

Social media integration into enterprise-oriented workflows is gaining widespread adoption due to factors such as crowdsourcing and inter-organization collaborations. The partner organization has an existing system that is working for helping Saskatchewan businesses grow by bringing educated youth into the province. Their system is for providing opportunities for people all around the world to live and work in Saskatchewan. Our work will be to re-develop the existing infrastructure in a way that it can be integrated with social media with user generated content. Further, the improved system will be cross-platform independent and can be deployed in a desktop and mobile environments. The partner organization IIBC will have the results generated by the research. This research could allow the partner organization to broaden out their offerings of products to different mobile devices and better satisfy their customer’s needs

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ralph Deters

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

International Immigration and Business Consulting

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

Co-Ordination of Steel Production Operationsfor Increased Throughput

This project aims to improve the throughput of the production system at ArcelorMittal through better coordination between the production operations. The project proposes a sophisticated discrete-event simulation model to analyze the impact of all important parameters of the production system, such as steel temperature, furnace heat duration, ladle movements, and heat loss at ladle. Several improved coordination strategies will be generated and deployed in the simUlation model and the to-be behavior of the system will be observed. For each high-performance coordination strategy, sensitivity analyses will be done to validate the robustness. The results will provide ArcelorMittal managers with a better understating of the production system and individual significance of all its parameters to its performance. The proposed coordination practices will lead to significant cost savings and throughput improvements. The results of this project will also be used as a numerical basis for future investments and improvements to the system.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Vince Thomson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ArcelorMittal (Longueuil, QC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Mining

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Dynamic multi-type multi-priority emergency surgery scheduling with accurate service duration estimation

The process of setting surgical schedules in a modern hospital operating room suite is complicated. Scheduling surgery involves coordinating two separate but inter-related service distribution channels, namely, elective surgery operations and emergency surgery operations. Elective surgical cases are selected from a broad range of diagnostic categories and are scheduled in advance into surgical time that usually runs during regular business hours. In contrast, emergency surgery, often referred to as “unscheduled” surgery randomly emerges from a much narrower range of higher urgency indications and is scheduled by allocation onto available operating room time-based on relative priority. The emergency surgery waitlist is particularly challenging to manage as the operating room manager must simultaneously consider multiple patients from multiple priority levels and balance available resources against many uncertainties including demand variability and surgery duration. There is an agreement in medical society that a delay in receiving emergency surgery care can result in adverse patient outcomes. Therefore, based on the urgency of the case, operations are categorized into several priority groups so that each group has its own wait time target within which surgeries should be scheduled.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hossein Abouee Mehrizi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

On Time OR Scheduling

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Shear-induced coalescence for controlling emulsion stability

To reduce the negative impact on the environment and increase the competitiveness of Canada’s oil resources in the global economy it is essential to improve the ability to separate crude oil from water. This proposal aims to advance the understanding of a novel mechanism to do this by studying individual oil and water droplets. The intern will employ cutting edge characterization techniques and carry out proof-of-concept experiments that will enable new technologies for separating oil and water when processing crude oil as well as in other applications like food and cosmetics. BC Research will then be able to leverage the new technologies to create new intellectual property, increase business activities, and create new jobs in Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

John M Frostad

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Research Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Oil and Gas; Agriculture and Food; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Recherche de traceurs chimiques dans l’huile isolante permettant de déterminer indirectement la vie résiduelle des transformateurs de puissance

Un problème réel dans l’industrie des transformateurs de puissance est le manque d’outils et de méthodes précises pour déterminer l’état et la durée de vie de l’isolation principale. Ces appareils onéreux, composés d’enroulement de cuivre isolés par du papier et le tout baignant dans une huile isolante, représentent le coeur de tous réseaux électriques. Le but de ces stages est de déterminer des traceurs chimiques, capables de prédire le niveau de dégradation/vieillissement de l’isolation solide des transformateurs de puissance. Les opérateurs pourraient ainsi prendre des décisions appropriées afin d’éviter des pannes majeures. En effet, si l’on peut prévoir les pannes, il devient possible de les éviter! L’évaluation précise de l’état d’un transformateur permet de prévoir son remplacement au moment optimal.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Issouf Fofana

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

Université :

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Programme :

Accelerate

Fabrication of multilayer antibacterial PHBV-based micro-nanofibre through the electrospinning technique

Due to the prevalence of coronavirus and the spread of Covid-19 disease, the use of masks has increased significantly, which due to the more disposable use of these masks, environmental hazards have increased significantly. Therefore, the production of high-performance masks in the field of antimicrobials is very important. In this project, we investigate suitable biodegradable polymers for the production of micro/nanomembranes suitable for the production of face masks through the electrospinning method that is environmentally friendly.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Reza Jafari

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BE-UP Biotechnology Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Programme :

Accelerate

Developing m-health application framework

MedInstructional Resources Inc. focusses on providing turnkey solution for the education needs of the medical professions. Our current focus is on improving the reliability, agility, accountability and quality of medical student exams. The widespread adoption of mobile computing devices like tablets, offer the possibility to digitize the process of conducting student/patient exams in hospitals. MedInstructional Resources has identified as its goal to develop applications for mobile devices for use in situations where multiple examiners, multiple students and multiple stations are involved in order to make the administration of these events more efficient, cost-effective, secure, faster and reliable.
The partner organizations will be benefited from the results generated by this project. As we develop the system, we will take an iterative or agile approach where the development of system components is independent from each other. This will result into more flexible and more maintainable system.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ralph Deters

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

MedInstructional Resources Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

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