This project promotes the use of recycled material by diverting it from current waste streams, thus reducing the pressures on local landfills and positively contributing to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. However, processing lumber waste generated in construction and demolition projects remains challenging due to the variability in dimensions and wood species as well […]

Le fleuve Saint-Laurent est essentiel pour le développement économique du Québec, car il sert de route principale pour le transport de marchandises et d’entrée en Amérique du Nord. Compte tenu de son intense activité, le Saint-Laurent a été choisi comme site pilote pour tester une nouvelle norme internationale, la norme S-100 de l’Organisation Hydrographique Internationale […]

This project would seek to develop an integrated system incorporating a reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reactor to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into carbon monoxide and water, aiming for maximum production of carbon monoxide. RWGS is an endothermic, catalytic, equilibrium-limited reaction, so the project team will seek to develop efficient, novel catalysts and supports, […]

The proposed research project aims to address the significant natural hazard of large-scale landslides in sensitive clays, which can cause substantial economic loss, environmental disaster, infrastructure damage, and fatalities. The partner organization, WSP, specializes in geotechnical engineering services, including geohazard assessment from landslides and slope failure. This project will explore the applicability of advanced large-deformation […]

Large language models (LLMs), AI systems trained on vast amounts of online textual data with advanced language processing capabilities, have garnered significant interest in healthcare applications. Health chatbots integrate language models and various algorithmic tools to assist in decision-making, potentially revolutionizing patient self-management and reducing disparities in healthcare access. However, previous work has shown notable […]

Accurately predicting entrainment in free shear flows like jets, wakes, and shallow water shear layers is crucial for industrial, environmental, and geophysical applications, yet most studies focus on wakes and jets using Eulerian statistics from 2D experiments, limiting insight into this inherently 3D, multiscale phenomenon. To bridge this gap, we will conduct cutting-edge measurements capturing […]

Temperature control is very important to a modern day society. Certain beverages, such as soda pop, alcoholic beverages, and even water are refrigerated so that they are more refreshing to drink. This project objective is to design novel environmentally benign and emission-free self-cooling beverage cans. Two different systems with different cooling approached are considered. The […]

Income-based energy burden metrics identify households in energy poverty as those which spend 10% or more of their after-tax income on dwelling energy bills, risking the inability to maintain thermal comfort. However, traditional income-based energy poverty metrics fail to capture behavioral adaptation patterns of reducing energy consumption to limit financial expenditure on energy services, especially […]

Ce projet de recherche vise à développer un nouveau procédé pour éliminer le fer et le manganèse des eaux souterraines destinées à la consommation humaine. Pour y arriver, nous testerons l’utilisation de filtres avec deux couches de matériaux réactifs activés biologiquement qui permettent de prolonger les durées de cycle et d’éliminer dans un seul filtre […]

For this application, Solace has developed a hybrid inverter topology which incorporates a half-bridge synchronous buck converter into the inverter. The buck converter is a pain point in the topology — to limit the size of magnetic components, it is desirable to operate the buck at relatively high frequency (>300 kHz). However, switching loss in […]

The project will develop a revolutionary, conformable hydrogen storage tank solution for fuel cell electric vehicles. The specific objective of this research collaboration is to develop a hydrogen storage medium that is stable at ambient conditions, has a high gravimetric hydrogen storage capacity and can be packed into a fuel tank for use in vehicles. […]

The goal of the project is to help the industrial partner with evaluating, customizing and adopting advanced software engineering and quality assurance methods based on the notion of software product line (SPL) engineering practices. The software system considered in this project is an electronic medical record (EMR) system that is used in hundreds of clinics […]