Mining sites as incubators for green energy and other value added products

The mining industry is a key economic driver for Northern Ontario, and mine and associated support and

processing facility closures result, therefore, in significant impacts on the local community direct and indirect

employment and economy. Despite each mining operation representing a significant investment in preparation,

transport, infrastructure and technology, much, if not all, is lost to the community after closure. A mine site also

creates and occupies significant tracts of land that are essentially non-productive assets.

To address this issue, this is a multi-disciplinary, multi-company research program that involves both a school of

process engineering and of medicine, and links energy recovery and greenhouse gas accounting with

generation of biofuels and natural microbial sourced heath compounds. It is based around innovative uses of

mine lands for achieving extractable energy value from sources of waste heat generated. In particular use of

these sites as an “incubators” for the production from indigenous microalgae of renewable biofuels and…tobecont’d

Faculty Supervisor:

John Ashley Scott

Student:

Partner:

Xstrata Nickel Canada;ChemAdvance Inc;AI Consultants Inc;Sussex Research Laboratories Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

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Government

Mitacs Partners