Ultra-low frozen food temperatures between -30°C to -60°C are important when shipping high value seafood products to worldwide markets. Maintaining these temperatures using a traditional vapor compression refrigeration cycles becomes increasingly difficult as the span between desired cargo and external temperature increase. Solid CO2 has the capacity to sustain ultra-low frozen temperatures even during hot […]

Aimed to improve productivity and performance of construction projects, the project applied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect the data of the construction site periodically. Images of the site will be captured with cameras carried on the UAV platform. The construction site will be monitored with the images and the 3D information recovered from the […]

Phosphorous is the key nutrient limiting fish productivity and algal growth in Ontario lakes: more phosphorous can mean more fish, but it can also mean more algal growth, and potentially even toxic blue-green algal blooms. Multiple stressors like climate change, human land-use practices, and shoreline development, all affect lake phosphorous levels beyond natural geo-climatic factors. […]

A zinc coating is commonly used on structural steels to prevent corrosion. The structure is dipped in a hot bath of liquid zinc, which when cooled, provides to protective layer. However, after the coating process, cracking has been found in the welded joints of the structural steel. The proposed research aims to determine the cause […]

Il arrive fréquemment que les consommateurs visitent un site web plusieurs fois avant d’y effectuer une transaction et que ces visites sur le site soit générées par différentes sources (publicité, médias sociaux, favoris, courriel). Cette situation occasionne un sérieux dilemme, celui de l’attribution du crédit de la conversion (i.e., transaction sur un site). Doit-on l’associer […]

This project aims at identifying, analyzing, and documenting the operational requirements for a technological solution that will replace the currently used, time consuming, paper-based, building safety plans. Upon arriving at an incident scene, first responders rush to these on-site safety plans to know the ins and outs and the safety details of the incident scene. […]

The main objective of this work is to identify and evaluate technologies which capture water from natural gas combustion flue gas from oilsands steam generators, as well as recover energy from the hot flue gas. This includes classification of technologies to evaluate their fundamentals and technical viability (1), feasibility for a particular SAGD scheme with […]

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a natural nano biomaterial, which has been investigated for a broad range of applications ranging from headphone diaphragm to wound dressing and medical implant. We will investigate a recently discovered facultative bacterium for BC production. This bacterium has the potential of increasing the efficiency of BC production by more than ten […]

Exposure to traffic related air pollution (TRAP) damages the lungs, particularly in people who are at risk of developing long-lasting lung diseases including asthma. This project will examine whether the chemical “coating” attached to many parts of DNA, known as methylation, is changed by TRAP exposure, as this may affect the immune system contributing to […]

Étude d’étanchéité d’un nouveau type de murs-rideaux modulables développé pour le marché des bâtiments commerciaux et institutionnels de 1 à 2 étages. L’objectif est d’améliorer l’efficacité énergétique de ce dernier en annulant le passage de l’air au travers des parois. Le projet de recherche consiste d’abord à détecter les fuites d’air et d’eau du système, […]

As the average age of Canadians increases, so too does the number of people who experience hearing loss. One of the primary complaints of hearing aid users is listening to speech in environments with a high degree of background noise. Advances in hearing aid technology may be able to address this problem, but understanding how […]

The NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures is a five-year partnership between Canadian industry, universities, researchers, research and education (R&E) networks, and high performance computing centres to investigate the design of future application platforms that will deliver software applications of greater capability and intelligence. These application platforms will be supported by an […]