Fusion power has the potential to deliver clean, safe, and abundant electrical power on an industrial scale. Due to the extreme conditions required, involving temperatures of hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, it remains a technical challenge, particularly on a commercial scale. In a concept called Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF), plasma is compressed to fusion conditions […]

L’étude des microplastiques (MP) en suspension dans l’air extérieur en est à ses balbutiements. Des données recueillies en Europe, en Asie, en Océanie et au Moyen-Orient ont mis en évidence des concentrations significatives, ce qui pose de nombreuses questions sur l’exposition des populations et les conséquences en termes de santé publique. En effet, quelques travaux […]

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THIS IS A GENERIC TEXT PUT IN PLACE AS THERE WAS NO PROJECT OVERVIEW

Accuracy of gas pressure gauge measurements is important to ensure that gas companies bill their customers accurately. There are also safety implications since what is being measured is a flammable substance. Calibration is typically used to ensure that measurements taken by a gas pressure gauge do not drift far from the correct values: pressure measurements […]

La transition energetique est bien entamee au Quebec et une des consequences importantes de cette transition est l’augmentation de la demande en energie electrique. De meilleurs outils de conduite du reseau comme ceux proposes dans ce projet, permettront de limiter l’impact de l’augmentation de la demande et ainsi faciliter l’integration de celle-ci sans freiner la […]

La démarche d’évaluation participative des projets du volet alimentaire de Montréal en commun (MEC), un programme porté par le Laboratoire d’innovation urbaine de la Ville de Montréal (LIUM) issu de la candidature gagnante de la Ville au Défi des villes intelligentes du Canada, est appelé à changer d’échelle dans le cadre de ce projet de […]

Following the completion of the Annapolis River Tidal Power Generating Station in 1984, the abundance of many native diadromous fish species declined in the river. In 2019, new regulatory directives resulted in the abrupt termination of power generating activities, and tide gates that had barred access to the river were left open for the first […]

The state-of-the-art of building energy management systems uses model predictive control to compare alternative control strategies prior to implementation. Climate conditions dramatically influence the control strategy selection. These rely on conventional climate forecasting that provides coarse resolution with respect to both time and space (e.g. 1 hour, 50 km). The industrial partner Green Power Labs […]

Ce projet a pour but d’améliorer le contrôle de qualité et l’entretien des gros équipements de production d’énergie électrique, soit les grands hydro-alternateurs. Une des parties problématiques de ces équipements est l’enroulement situé dans la partie fixe de la machine, soit le stator. Ce dernier est en effet soumis à des importantes contraintes électriques, mécaniques […]

Hydro-Québec has found that welding flaws induced during the manufacturing of hydraulic turbine runners are prone to fatigue damage. To avoid catastrophic failure, they developed a life estimation model that relies on flaw detection and sizing through non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection procedures. Probability of detection (POD) gives the probability or likelihood that a flaw of […]