The British Columbia aquaculture industry sends 3-4,000,000 Expanded Polystyrene (EPS Styrofoam) fish boxes to market annually. Globally, wild and farmed combined, circulate tens of millions annually. Food industry including Sea-food packaging is one of the largest producers of package waste in landfills, and this has driven the need for a recyclable/biodegradable packaging as a replacement […]

Future scarcity of phosphorus supply, increasing cost and issues of eutrophication are potential drivers promoting nutrient recovery from wastewaters. The proposed project aims to develop cheap and environmentally friendly technology for the recovery of phosphorus and nitrogen from municipal, agricultural, dairy, food processing, petrochemicals, and biomass processing industries wastewaters. Successful completion of the project will […]

Industrial applications are among the heaviest producers of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and require a large amount of energy to operate. Industrial applications have now begun to invest in “microgrids”, which are small-scale power systems that utilize clean energy sources, such as solar, batteries, and electric vehicles, to satisfy energy demand. This project will develop […]

The proposed research project is targeted to develop an accurate mathematical description for control and optimization of the Autonomous Mobile Energy system (AMES) and its integration with potential applications in mining, water desalination and other areas. The system incorporates solar thermal system thermal energy storage and an auxiliary energy source and will provide uninterrupted clean […]

The main objectives for the industrial partners Hydro Québec and Cascades within the MITACS Elevation program are threefold: a. Ensure their industrial voice is represented on this international consensus building process b. Being proactive, influence the process and anticipate the developments on the consensus around water footprinting methods c. Generate industry specific case studies to […]

Light can have a significant effect on our wellbeing. In general, it is healthy to follow the natural outdoor cycle and receive a lot of light during the day and no light at night. However, in the modern world of high-rise buildings and electric lights, we can often end up desynchronized from the outdoor world. […]

The data describing different aspects of a building comes from various disciplines and is most often residing in disparate systems. Yet, an effective management of the building performance requires access to a unified view of the whole lifecycle data. Using existing technologies disparate sources of the building data can be integrated and stored in the […]

The overall goal of the proposed two-year project focuses on the development of textile fibres from Canadian grown hemp. In the first year, we will complete the characterization of the Canadian hemp bast fibres, obtained after different growing cycles, and compare them with the hemp bast grown for textile applications (e.g., collected from China and […]

L’objectif de ce stage et de définir une stratégie avancée de gestion des projets et programmes. Pour ce faire il faudra évaluer les pratiques en place et utilisées pour les adaptées à l’adn de l’organisation tout en anticipant les impacts de la croissance actuellement vécue tant sur la nature, la taille ou même le nombre […]

Quantum computers offer superior advantages compared to classical computers. Technological and theoretical developments have spurred lots of research to enable fully functioning prototypes for quantum computers. One of the main challenges in this direction is building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In this project, we aim to analyze and design a new method for providing better […]

Le projet vise a moderniser et ameliorer les outils numeriques utilises par Hydro-Quebec pour prevoir la demande en electricite au Quebec et mettre en ceuvre des strategies d’autocorrection. Les developpements attendus permettront d’augmenter la capacite de maintenance et d’amelioration de ces outils par Hydro-Quebec, et de les rendre plus efficaces. Hydro-Quebec sera ainsi plus à […]

A series of pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) tests and large-scale physical experiments of the hybrid solvent-enhanced SAGD process will be carried out and simulated to better understand the process physics and bitumen recovery mechanisms, which will help Imperial make reliable predictions with the upscaling potential for quickly commercial field applications. This project will be conducted both in […]