Le projet de recherche qui sera entrepris pendant le stage portera sur l’étude numérique de l’effet d’une nouvelle classe des matériaux à changement de phase, nommée Nano-MCP, sur les performances du stockage d’énergie. Par définition, un nano-MCP est un mélange des nanoparticules de haute conductivité thermique avec des MCPs conventionnels, tel que le paraffine et […]

L’une des principales grandes orientations de développement d’Hydro-Québec concerne les disjoncteurs à haute tension, essentiels au fonctionnement sûr d’un réseau d’énergie électrique. En service, les opérations de manoeuvre/commutation peuvent imposer de sévères contraintes aux disjoncteurs à haute tension. Cela, en raison des contraintes diélectriques et mécaniques fréquentes qui peuvent entrainer des défaillances compromettant la sécurité […]

One of the major challenges facing the 21st century is the antibacterial fight. Traditional methods such as antibiotics are ineffective in many cases of chronic infections or food contaminations. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the formation of biofilms where bacteria are protected from the environment by a protective barrier made of polymers. […]

Proteins are used in many products of our day-to-day life. The extraction and isolation of proteins from the raw source is a complex process in which every stage has multiple controlling parameters that need to be monitored and optimized to achieve predicted quality, functionality, and yield. The performance of the extraction process depends on the […]

High viscous oil is trapped underground and cold-heavy-oil-production-with-sand (CHOPS) is one of the acceptable methods to produce the heavy oil out by forming wormholes around the wellbore. Saskatchewan and Alberta have thousands CHOPS wells and left 90% original oil in place underground. However, the primary oil recovery is low and solvent like CO2 or propane […]

In northeast British Columbia, earth dams have been constructed to hold water for the oil and gas industry using locally available soils having high clay and silt content. These soils tend to have low shear strength and are susceptible to volume changes from wetting-drying and freeze-thaw cycles, which can lead to increased risk for cracking, […]

The town of Fort Nelson has been hugely impacted economically with the drop in oil prices and cancellation of west-coast LNG export. Local companies and entrepreneurs are looking for other natural resources in an attempt to save the region’s economy. Mindbody Networks Inc. has access to a variety of natural clay deposits distributed within the […]

This proposed research project is an extension of a previous NSERC CRD project that is investigating hybridization optimization of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) used in FC bus and rail applications. The models developed in this research are expected to yield improved fuel cell and system lifetimes in service, and improved detection and mitigation […]

Les infrastructures en béton armé (ponts, routes, ports, canaux de navigation) ont un impact majeur sur la société. Les bénéfices économiques reliés à l’utilisation de ces infrastructures sont considérables, cependant ils sont contrebalancés par les coûts directs des travaux de remplacement ou de réhabilitations récurrentes. Le projet Développement d’éléments préfabriqués et de réparations pour les […]

The main objective of the project is to develop hybrid distributed energy resource (HDER) systems to supply energy to net-zero energy commercial and residential buildings. This is expected to result in lower energy costs to consumers and utilities and in greater reliability of the grid. The HDERs will consist of solar panels, generators, and batteries. […]

This project is aiming at the development of flywheel-based energy storage platform as integrated with power grid substation that will ensure sustainable and safe operation during normal and emergency conditions. It provides reduced operational costs with reduced GHG emissions in energy infrastructures. The design of a resilient energy storage platform is developed to be integrated […]

When emergency departments (EDs) are congested and cannot accept incoming ambulance patients immediately, a common action is to let paramedics continue to provide patient care until an ED bed becomes available. This delay in transferring a patient from the ambulance to the ED is referred to as ambulance offload delay (AOD). AOD is a growing […]