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Biosurfactants for Greener Consumer Products

Surfactants (including emulsifiers) are a group of molecules that are critical for the function of many industrial processes and commercial products. Conventional surfactants are produced from non-renewable sources (e.g., petroleum products), can persist in the environment for long periods of time, and can be toxic to various plants and animals. “Biosurfactants” are surfactants that are naturally produced by harmless bacteria and have the potential to provide the same functionality as conventional surfactants, while also being environmentally compatible. This project aims to enable and advance the use of these biosurfactants in place of conventional surfactants, which will result in cleaner technology over a wide range of commercial sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John M Frostad

Student:

Partner:

BC Research Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Biotechnology; Biomanufacturing; Clean Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Novel Specific Coagulant/Flocculant Pairs for Mineral Tailings Treatment

Water management and treatment of mineral tailings and oil sands tailings are becoming critical challenges for the sustainable development of natural resources exploration. Reclamation of these tailings is challenging due to a solid phase composed mainly by very fine particles and many other chemicals. With these characteristics, the tailings form a very stable colloidal system and needs to be stored in open ponds. If left untreated, these tailings take decades to settle the recovery of water and large areas occupied by the tailing’s ponds. Coagulation and flocculation have been used to promote the sedimentation of these particles and enable the separation of released water and solid sediments. Duo to its complex composition, there is no mature technology capable of effectively treating tailings and completely eliminating the use of tailings ponds. This project aims to develop an innovative method that selectively bridge the fine particles suspended in tailings, forming aggregates with low water retention, precipitating at the bottom of the pond.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joao Soares

Student:

Partner:

CarboNet Nanotechnologies Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Water; Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Hydraulic-Kinetics Model Development for Sewer Network Management and Chemical Dosing Optimization

The proposed project is to develop a comprehensive tool for mathematical modeling of the hydraulics and biochemical conversions in the sewer network. This tool will be used for the optimization of the control strategy of the chemicals dosing in sewer networks to efficiently and economically mitigate the harmful emissions, such as hydrogen sulfide and greenhouse gases, resulting from the biochemical reactions in the sewer network. The proposed tool will have the capability to determine the hot spots of the harmful emissions in a large-scale sewer network, e.g. a sewer network of a city. In addition, optimization of the chemical dosing strategy and control will be developed using this tool by determining the locations, times, and amount of dosing chemicals to achieve the highest effectiveness and completely eliminate the gases emission. In order to develop a robust optimization tool that can be used for different conditions, rigorous validation should be conducted using extensive measurement data from large-scale real sewers and pilot-scale experiments. Therefore, in a collaboration with the other researchers in USP Technologies, a huge number of measurements will be conducted and fed to the mathematical model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuri Lawryshyn

Student:

Partner:

USP Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Momentum Materials Solutions – Cameron Armstrong

This project aims at developing an innovative and efficient marketing strategy for acquiring customers and building a good customer relationship which would help Momentum Materials Solutions to overcome the market-entry barrier and achieve its sales goal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

Momentum Materials Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

A Holistic Framework to Evaluate Energy Consumption of Heritage Buildings

The outcome of the proposed research on heritage buildings could benefit the industry, including EVOQ Strategies’ work as they have been involved in a number of projects on heritage buildings. Keeping the above in mind, the following general objectives are identified for the current research:
– Provide a detailed overview of existing technologies as well as the opinions of experts in the field of energy performance sustainability assessment for heritage buildings. Thus, in a sense, it serves as a benchmark for different researchers looking to design their own assessment tool.
– Develop a comprehensive model that is targeted towards the assessment of the sustainability-focused on energy efficiency criteria and life cycle analysis of heritage buildings. Although different tools exist that are employed to measure the sustainability of different buildings, the value of this work lies in its type-specific approach and novelty.
– Compile results from the comparative study and design, evaluate and test an assessment tool that takes into consideration the limitations of the existing tools and opinions of experts. For that, the following activities would be performed: 1) propose novel attributes including Heritage Value, heritage built form and Structural Condition that was not considered in any of the existing tools; 2) develop a scoring system to quantify the importance and added value of each of the identified attributes to the energy performance of heritage buildings; 3) develop a more informative sustainability scale that is representative of the actual sustainability rating for the energy performance criterion of the building.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ashutosh Bagchi

Student:

Partner:

EVOQ Strategies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Elevate

Analysis of initially curved composite wing-stabilizer structure of eVTOL using dimensional reduction method; simulation, and optimization

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are being developed to revolutionize the transportation industry. They fly over traffic industry to their destination, drastically reducing commuting time. Limosa Inc. is a leading company to design and manufacture eVTOLs in Canada. This research is devoted to design, analyze and manufacture a composite initially curved wing-stabilizer of eVTOL LimoConnect. To design a composite wing-stabilizer of the aircraft, new methodologies, including Computational Fluid Dynamics, is employed to determine the loading conditions such as aerodynamic loads and flutter on the curved wing-stabilizer of the aircraft. A new computational method for analysis of composite wing structures named as Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional Analysis (VABS) will be employed. Eventually the optimization process will be performed to find the best configuration of the curved wing-stabilizer of the aircraft. This technique saves computational time drastically. The 3D finite element method will finally be used to validate the optimized curved wing-stabilizer structure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suong Van Hoa

Student:

Partner:

Limosa

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Elevate

L’innovation par le pilotage stratégique des données chez Recharge Véhicule Électrique (RVE)

Le plus grand défi de l’entreprise est la sous utilisation des systèmes d’information dans la mise en œuvre de leur planification stratégique et la réalisation des activités. L’objectif sera porté sur la création d’outils qui permettront l’autonomie, l’efficacité et la confiance envers les analyses et ainsi, améliorer le processus décisionnel et opérationnel de l’entreprise. Pour ce faire, nous avons divisé le projet en 2 sous projets : l’un dit décisionnel qui valorise les données afin de fournir des informations pour définir la stratégie et analyser les résultats et l’autre dit opérationnel qui prend en charge le management des données par la réalisation des opérations et des processus. Les deux projets conditionneront l’analyse des données afin d’en tirer des informations exploitables à l’amélioration de la planification stratégique et l’accomplissement des perspectives de développement de l’entreprise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Denis Larocque

Student:

Partner:

Recharge Véhicule Électrique Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Introducing a framework for a green smart coffee waste management system through Industry 4.0 technologies

Coffee brewing process generates large amounts of spent coffee grounds (SCG). SCGs are often disposed as general garbage and transported to landfills, where they produce methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. Hence, an efficient waste management system is important for managing such waste. An efficient waste management system avoids the high operating costs and emissions through reducing unnecessary pickup trips and long routes. In this proposal, we introduce a vision for a smart waste management framework that utilizes live data and make decisions accordingly. Live data are collected through collecting bins sensors that provide the level of waste in its bin. The decision, through decision-making tools, include when to send truck for collection and which route to take. This considers increasing trucks fleet utilization, avoiding overflowing the bins, and reducing fleet’s operating costs by decreasing unnecessary trips and long routes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Soumaya Yacout;Amin Chaabane;Amin Chaabane

Student:

Partner:

Afmerica Technologie Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure; Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Supercritical Water Processing of Electronic Waste for Generating Value Added Products

Electronic waste is one of the largest intensifying waste streams in the world. Although some traditional disposal methods are available to process electronic waste, these methods have several disadvantages from both the economic and environmental perspective. Some processes create challenging gases that require expensive clean-up, while others use harmful and toxic solvents which create air, water and soil pollution. As a result, we need to consider an alternative pathway for electronic waste disposal which can facilitate the recycling process. This MITACS elevate grant will support the improvement of a novel technology using water as a solvent to recycle electronic waste by extracting valuable metals and reducing environmental pollution, respectively. For example, a typical personal computer’s printed circuit boards contain Copper Cu (20%) and Gold Au (250 g/t). Gold is a precious metal which can be extracted and reused in new printed circuit boards. Recycling methods developed in this project will be commercialized by Everything Recycling Inc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charpentier

Student:

Partner:

Everything Recycling Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Elevate

Automated high-throughput characterization of microbiome composition and diversity

The mineral mining industry in Canada is rapidly shifting toward more sustainable practices that reduce the environmental impacts of extraction, wastewater, and emissions. Although often overlooked, microorganisms, or bacteria, living in the soils and water of mine sites and mining waste materials, collectively known as the ““mining microbiome”, exert strong influence on all stages of the mining life cycle. For example, microorganisms may cause corrosion of equipment via biofouling (corrosion), or be essential to mine cleanup through processes known as bioremediation. In order to transition mining practices towards a more sustainable future, understanding these complex microbial communities and developing technologies to control or influence microbial communities is necessary next step. To this end, Koonkie Canada Inc. is a proud member of the international cyber-infrastructure development project “Mining Microbiome Analytics Platform (MMAP)”. MMAP will provide a database and software ecosystem supporting breakthroughs in microbiome-based resource exploration, extraction, mine closure and remediation. This research proposal focuses on the creation of one of several data processing pipelines needed to characterize the DNA of the mining microbiome, with the goal of reducing harms and bolstering benefits of the mining microbiome.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Hallam

Student:

Partner:

Koonkie Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

A community-based participatory evaluation of services to support homeless youth and youth at risk of homelessness in Montreal

Homelessness is a growing issue in Canada, with many cities including Montreal reporting increasing numbers of people experiencing homelessness on any given day. Youth homelessness is different from adult homelessness, because of the developmental stages (physical, mental, social, and emotional) youth are in and because of the unique barriers and challenges that they face. This community-based participatory research project aims at evaluating a) services offered by Dans la rue, a non-profit organization that supports homeless youth and youth at-risk of homelessness through various interventions and b) activities implemented by the Coalition Jeunes+, a Quebec coalition that aims to mobilize key stakeholders towards a concerted and constructive effort in the prevention of youth homelessness. Results of this project will help improve services and activities offered by these organizations. They will help us understand how community organizations help support homeless youth and youth at risk of homelessness and how these organizations participate in shifting the current focus from intervention to prevention, ultimately reducing the need for emergency services and contributing to a norm change from intervention to prevention in the policy landscape in Quebec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christine Stich

Student:

Partner:

Dans la rue

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Les relations familiales adoptives en adoption internationale à la suite d’un contact informel avec la famille biologique

Ce projet de recherche vise à comprendre les relations familiales adoptives internationales à la suite d’un contact informel avec la famille biologique et ce, selon le point de vue des personnes adoptées et de leurs parents adoptifs. En utilisant une approche qualitative, six à huit familles composées des personnes adoptées et de leurs parents adoptifs participeront à des entrevues individuelles et familiales. Les participants partageront leur expérience et leur perception de leurs relations familiales après un contact post-adoption avec la famille biologique. Leurs discours permettront de voir de quelles manières ce contact influence les relations familiales adoptives. Un ancrage théorique arrimant des concepts liés aux relations familiales adoptives, comme la communication, la place qu’occupe la famille biologique dans la famille adoptive et l’ouverture sur le sujet d’adoption (Grotevant et al., 2011), et le modèle conceptuel proposé par la sociologie de la vie personnelle de Smart (2007) est utilisé. Ce modèle permettra d’explorer auprès de familles adoptives des concepts tels que la mémoire, la relationalité, la biographie, l’imaginaire et l’enracinement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Andrée Poirier

Student:

Partner:

Technological University of Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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