La société Enercon, produit des éoliennes et par la suite opère les centrales qui ont été installés, pour garantir le bon fonctionnement de celles-ci. L’un des enjeux à surmonter pour la maintenance d’une centrale éolienne est la prédiction des défaillances, afin d’intervenir le plus rapidement possible et de limiter le temps d’arrêt des turbines. La […]

La fiabilite des alternateurs hydrauliques est un sujet d’importance pour les utilitaires afin d’assurer la fiabilite de I’approvisionnement en energie electrique. La maintenance de ces equipements est donc un outil important dans la gestion et I’exploitation d’un parc d’alternateurs. Apres un certain nombre d’annees de fonctionnement, I’usure de ces equipements peut mener a I’apparition de […]

Stelia Amérique du Nord (Stelia) est une entreprise du secteur aérospatial qui offre différents services, produits et composants de haute technologie aux grands donneurs d’ordres comme Airbus et Bombardier. Stelia opère deux importantes usines en Amérique du Nord et achète globalement environ 14.000 pièces et composants spécifiques et standards. L’objectif de ce projet est d’aider […]

TAS (Techno Aero Services Inc.) is a Canadian recruitment agency specialized in aeronautics, engineering, and technology. At TAS, candidates currently submit resumes to a database through a web interface. These resumes are then manually processed by recruiters before a suitable candidate is matched to a position. Through this laborious manual process, great prospective candidates often […]

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disorder of the lung, and one that affects 2.6 million Canadians and 380 million people worldwide. Although the disease affects a large population worldwide the therapies used for treatment remain imprecise. With the lack of disease modifying therapies there is a pressing need to discover novel targets […]

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) is a lung disease that cause a lot of suffering to the Canadian population. To accelerate the drug discovery process, an old blood pressure lowering medication was tested to block the progression of COPD. A patient study showed that the old medication did provide some protective effect to the lung […]

Thermal processing is a major method of food processing and involves heating of foods packaged in hermetically sealed containers to destroy pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms in the product. While safety and shelf-stability of thermally processed foods were the primary concerns of consumers in the past, today the consumer demand higher quality processed products. Rotary autoclaves […]

The global seaborne trade is growing rapidly and being supported by shipping, one of the major transportation tools around the world. With the satellite and terrestrial AIS (Automatic Identification System) data, it is possible to track the trajectories of vessels carrying commodities. The capability to accurately forecast the import and export volumes and types of […]

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a wide variety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often produced in low quantities in plants and extraction methods […]

Pour délivrer des médicaments, les formulations solides à administration orale sont préférées par les patients et l’industrie pharmaceutique. De plus, les excipients sont préférablement des polymères biocompatibles d’origine naturelle. Les propriétés spécifiques des excipients (solubilité, susceptibilité aux enzymes gastro-intestinales) peuvent rendre difficile l’utilisation d’un seul polymère pour la livraison de l’actif à chaque segment du […]

The oil & gas industry is vital to the economy of British Columbia (BC) and Canada. The BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) regulates more than 40 thousand km of pipelines that transport a variety of refined and unrefined products. The reliability of the pipelines is often compromised due to natural ageing and deterioration processes, […]

Clearcut logging and acid deposition affect plants, lichens and slugs (lichen consumers) and may facilitate the introduction and spread of alien invasive slugs, which can increase grazing pressures on at-risk lichens. The main research goal of this project is to improve our understanding of how clearcutting practices affect herbs and slugs and facilitate both the […]