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Engineering - chemical / biological

Numerical simulation and experimental analysis of frosting in air-to-air counterflow heat exchanger

The present project combines an experimental and numerical approach to be able to model the condensation and the frost formation in air-to-air counterflow plate heat exchangers. An optimized geometry will be proposed as well as frost prevention and defrosting strategies for air exchangers used in North America climate. The sensible heat recovery requirements in building codes still tend to go up. To achieve the required efficiency in a limited volume, the crossflow plate heat exchangers will be replaced by counterflow plate heat exchangers. In a Nordic climate, they are more problematic than the cross flow type because it tends to develop an ice buildup in the exhaust flow. It then requires the use of longer or more frequent defrosting cycles, which reduce their efficiency. The validated numerical model will consider the increased conduction resistance due to ice on top of the plates and the pressure loss.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hachimi Fellouah

Student:

Alexandre Coulombe

Partner:

Innergy Tech

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Process optimization for extraction of compounds from natural sources – Year Two

Various methods have been developed to extract compounds from fruits, vegetables, and seeds. Subcritical and supercritical extractions are the most promising techniques with high output qualities and high cost efficiencies. Running the systems at different pressures and temperatures, the essential bi-product can be extracted from the natural compounds matrix. In addition to their effectiveness, the subcritical and supercritical extraction systems are environmentally friendly processes. The proposed project focuses on optimizing the essential bi-products extraction from natural compounds matrices. This can be achieved through the use of the appropriate pressures, temperatures, and solvent flow rates. During these processes, the solvent will propagate through the natural compound matrix and extract essential bi-products with maximum yields and least energy consumption. The extracts will be used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ali Ahmadi

Student:

Walid Mazyan

Partner:

F.T.C. Enterprises Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Elevate

Pharmacogenetic Biomarker Discovery, Personalized Medicine, and Clinical Test Commercialization in Neuropsychiatry – Year two

Pharmacotherapy is one of the primary treatments for psychiatric disorders. Given the variation in individual response, and the current trial-and-error treatment, a more personalized approach is needed. The Mitacs Elevate postdoctoral fellow project involves the use of pharmacogenetic testing to personalize medication prescriptions for patients, and the commercialization of pharmacogenetic testing. A main component of the postdoctoral fellow work is the Individualized Medicine: Pharmacogenetics Assessment and Clinical Treatment (IMPACT) project, a partnership between the University of Toronto CAMH hospital and Assurex Health Ltd. The goal of IMPACT is to increase the success rate of drug response and adherence, and to limit risk of side effects from medications. IMPACT aims to improve response through providing guidance (GeneSight test) to physicians for choosing medications based on a patient’s genetic makeup. The academic/industry partnership goals are to continuously refine the validity and utility of the test and commercialize the test in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jim Kennedy

Student:

Julie-Anne Tanner

Partner:

Assurex Health

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

An Agile monitoring tool integrating risk, safety, and digital data infrastructure management – Year two

An innovative tool is proposed to integrate agile risk, alert, team, safety, and digital data infrastructure management into a Micro Engineering Tech Inc. (METI) current structural health monitoring system (SHM), mobile mapping system (MMS), and building information modeling (BIM) that will be called Agile Monitoring Tool. Agile Monitoring Tool includes a comprehensive project management software (CPMS) package that consists of three systems as follows. First is an SHM; the structure health monitoring development was originally part of a past successful R&D project. Second is a MMS. MMS is a system that can provide accurate surveying measurements of the objects around it. Since it has photogrammetric as well as laser scanning range data, it can provide very accurate yet very fast acquisition to produce geospatial data. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Schulz

Student:

Nesreen Weshah

Partner:

Micro Engineering Tech Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Elevate

Scientific and Clinical Hub for Orphan Drug Development

With rapid and cost-effective genome sequencing becoming the norm, many causal mutations for inherited genetic diseases are being rapidly determined. The discovery of new genes for inherited diseases is enabling rapid genetic and chemical genetic platforms to be used to discover drug targets and drugs/drug-like molecules as potential treatment options for patients with inherited diseases. This project is focusing on the identification of compounds that could potentially treat human genetic diseases, with a focus on childhood blinding disorders, and muscular dystrophies – the expertise of the industrial partner AGADA Biosciences. The research will identify novel drugs/drug-like molecules for the treatment of patients suffering from these inherited diseases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher McMaster

Student:

Taryn Reid

Partner:

AGADA Biosciences

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Flaxseed fractionation for product development and process scale-up.

Flaxseed possesses many useful and valuable components, some in high concentration (oil, protein and fibre) and some as minor components (lignan, orbitides), as well as anti-nutrients such as cyanogenic glycosides and cadmium, which all need to be monitored during development and final production. Integrating or substituting these flaxseed components into various established foods, or generating new products, expands the marketability of the final products and expands the market potential of flaxseed as a high value Canadian crop: egg substitute, plant protein, gluten-free products, high fibre health products, gum substitution for clean label products, to name but a few potentialities. With each component, the value of the flaxseed crop increases, as does the quality of the individual products and the quality of the product testing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Tyler

Student:

Leila Debahadi

Partner:

Prairie Tide Chemicals

Discipline:

Agriculture

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Functional Characterization of Mammaglobin-1 Isoform in Breast Cancer

Many genes are implicated in the development and progression of breast cancer. One of these genes, mammaglobin 1 (MGB1), is specifically found in breast cells. MGB1 is routinely used for the detection of invasive breast cancer that migrate to distant organs of the body and form a secondary tumor. However, the specific role of MGB1 in breast cancer progression is still unknown. Our preliminary findings suggest that MGB1 is a potent inducer of cancer cell aggressivity. More recently, we have observed that the MGB1 gene is capable of generating multiple forms of MGB1. These different MGB1 variants are found in specific types of breast cancer cells. We thus believe that MGB1 variants have specific roles in breast cancer metastasis and disease progression. Our proposed studies will help elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern metastasis and disease progression.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Robichaud

Student:

Roxann Guerrette

Partner:

Distributed Bio

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Multilingual Semantic Similarity Engine

To communicate with their end users, businesses regularly produce written documents such as letters, notices, statements, etc.., in various languages. A set of rules are usually used to ensure that information in these documents is ‘correct’ and consistent across languages and communication channels. However, with the increasing volume and variety of information being sent out to clients, it becomes difficult to preserve the semantics of client messages across vocabulary and language variations. This project aims at creating algorithms capable of measuring semantic similarity of two text documents regardless of the natural language being used for each document. The set of similarity algorithms must scale with the size of the corpus being used.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Mercer

Student:

Hospice Houngbo

Partner:

Messagepoint

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Towards the development of a bone substitute-based targeted drug delivery tool to treat bone metastasis

We aim to develop human bone extracts mixed with commercially available bone putty and prepare customized 3D print materials, both of which are infused with anti-cancer drugs. These bone substitutes could be used to fill and stabilize the large empty spaces and to locally deliver anti-cancer drugs that kills any remaining tumor cells and promote bone healing following tumor resection in patients with bone metastasis. We also aim to establish a 3D bone metastasis-like model that will be used to test the drug delivery from bone substitutes. J & J could adopt and manufacture these new treatment modalities and commercialize them for hospitals to treat patients with bone metastasis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Weber

Student:

Pouyan Ahangar

Partner:

Johnson & Johnson Inc. Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a power efficient modem for reliable acoustic communication between autonomous underwater vehicles

The global underwater wireless communication market is growing rapidly and is expected to be worth 2.86 Billion USD by 2023, driven primarily by the oil and gas and defense industries. Currently, communications with underwater assets, specifically with autonomous underwater vehicles is sporadic and unreliable. This is due to the complex nature of the underwater communication channel which exhibits multi-path behavior mainly due to the slow speed of sound in water. Hence, Acoubit purposes to build the next generation of adaptive wireless underwater modems which will enable acoustic communications channels to be used more efficiently, at higher rates, and over longer distances to ultimately enable mission-wide coverage and rapid data upload. For this project, Tejinder Sandhu will be primarily responsible for the hardware prototype development and refinement across extensive sea trails. This will ultimately enable Acoubit to create a market ready state of the art communication modem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Gu

Student:

Tejinder Singh Sandhu

Partner:

Acoubit Communications Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Decision Support System to Manage and Forecast Final Project Costs

Managing construction projects can be a challenging task as they are subject to change and comprised of numerous work packages. Understanding project outputs in the early phases of a project can assist project managers to make informed decisions and take timely corrective actions to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. In the applicant’s doctoral research project, a Markov model was developed to enhance the accuracy of project cost forecasting through the integration of historical performance data. While this previous research has improved forecasting accuracy of a project’s ongoing cost performance, it cannot provide information regarding the impact that actions designed to mitigate poor cost performance (e.g., time crashing, duration extension) will have on project outcomes.
The objective of the current proposal is to develop a simulation-based framework that can predict the impact of various potential actions taken in response to poor project forecasts and suggest optimal actions. Monte Carlo simulation will be added to the previously developed Markov model to simulate various decision-making scenarios that can be taken by project managers. Outcomes of these analyses will be ranked and optimal decisions selected. Results of this research can be used as a supplementary tool to aid practitioners in the decision-making process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simaan Abourizk

Student:

Amin Amini Khafri

Partner:

Graham Industrial Services Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Elevate

Forced Air Ozone Reactor and Advanced Oxidative Process as an Alternative to Post-harvest Washing for Decontaminating Fresh Produce

The project will develop aqueous-free systems for decontaminating (i.e. inactivation of human pathogens and spoilage microbes) fresh produce that can be applied individually or sequentially. The first intervention is based on a forced-air ozone reactor that introduces the antimicrobial gas through the bed of produced at a controlled flow rate. The advantage of the method is large batches of produce can be treated and supports a higher log reductions of bacteria compared to when ozone is applied to storage rooms. The second intervention is based on Advanced Oxidative Process (AOP) that generates a cloud of antimicrobial radicles from the degradation of ozone and hydrogen peroxide that can decontaminate the surface, in addition to sub-surface. Each of the treatments will be modelled using Surface Response Methodology that will be used to optimize (log reduction of relevant pathogens and retention of sensor quality) each of the treatment parameters. The research will deliver aqueous-free decontamination methods as an alternative or supplement to post-harvest washing. In addition to being a more effective decontamination methods, the interventions will provide water savings and the potential to degrade pesticides. The participating partner will benefit from the expertise of the applicants knowledge of engineering, microbiology and food safety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Keith Warriner

Student:

Mahdiyeh Hasani

Partner:

Clean Works

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Program:

Elevate

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