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New Insights on the mechanisms controlling fines generation and fine migration in block cave mining

Block cave mining is generally considered the preferred mining method for deeper and lower grade copper and gold deposits. The body of practical knowledge related to the impacts that mass mining methods have on the surrounding environment is limited by the challenges imposed by the ever-increasing size of caving operations, and the difficulty to transfer knowledge across different geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological conditions at different sites. Fragmentation, gravity flow and fines migration play a key role in block and panel cave mining with respect to both safety considerations (mudrushes) and technical aspects (ore recovery and dilution). The objective of this project is to develop a better mechanistic understanding of the processes governing fines generation and fine migration. The aim is to develop a comprehensive research program that incorporates both the experience of the industry partner and a clear statement of study objectives and deliverables aligned with the interests of the industry partner. The desired research outcome would be the development of a solid understanding of fines migration mechanisms that could then be applied to cave design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Davide Elmo;Erik Eberhardt;Bern Klein

Student:

Partner:

Centre for Innovation in Mineral Resources Engineering

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Humano.Health

Augmented reality has the ability to revolutionize the healthcare system. Notably, for medical students and doctors. Studies demonstrate that interactive learning is the most effective way for medical information to be disseminated to medical students and professionals. This project seeks to develop an app for women’s sexual health that will assist in physician and medical student education through augmented reality.
Women’s health (WH) is an area where research has indicated that significant barriers still exist for optimal patient outcomes. One of these barriers is healthcare professional education and training. By way of example, in a 2021 study on Canadian medical school training, Anderson and Gagliardi (2021) concluded: “based on program and course descriptions, WH may not be well-integrated at Canadian medical schools, and future physicians may not be consistently exposed to the full breadth of WH. This reveals opportunities for enhancing WH in the medical curriculum. Future research is needed to engage stakeholders including women in developing, implementing and evaluating competencies and corresponding curriculum that reflect the full range of WH concepts and practices.”

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Shiu Cheung Li

Student:

Partner:

EsVedra Wellness Inc.;Shasta House Media Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Analysis of Survey Incident Reports: Examining Factors that Influence Health and Safety Within the Mineral Exploration Field

Canada is recognized as one of the leading nations worldwide in terms of mining production, attributing a major component of the success to the mineral exploration field. Companies engaged in mineral exploration have been increasingly more aware of the importance of health and safety systems, yet high numbers of reported incidents remain. Mineral exploration efforts need to have, and enforce, responsible exploration to ensure health and safety for all individuals involved. The proposed project will examine incident report data acquired via survey from a variety of companies and will apply known safety theories to frame the findings. Following the statistical analysis, this work will identify common trends, areas of importance, critical issues, and actionable training suggestions to mitigate risk in the field for mineral exploration workers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alison Godwin

Student:

Partner:

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

Fiti Probiotic Sachet Production

Fiti probiotic sachet project involves culturing, freeze-drying and packaging a measured formula of lactobacillus rhamnosus, streptococcus thermophilus, and bifidobacterium bifidum for a Canadian solution to the termination of sachets produced by a Dutch partner who will not longer produce the ‘Fiti’ sachets. In partnership with the Fanshawe Centre for Research and Innovation, the project will allow Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU) to provide Fiti probiotic foods through social enterprises to vulnerable populations in London, Ontario and beyond. YOU production of the sachets will allow the Western Heads East program at Western University to continue to supply the probiotic sachets to social enterprises in Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicole Haggerty

Student:

Partner:

Youth Opportunities Unlimited;Mistyglen Farms Ltd

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology; The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

High-efficiency supersonic binary fluid ejector

From the survey of literature (Eames et al. (1995), Chunnanond & Aphornratana (2004b), Chunnanond & Aphornratana (2004a) and others), the performance of a jet refrigeration system depends greatly on the ejector configuration (characteristics). Many researchers have shown the need to improve performance in order to make ejector-based cooling economically more attractive. It is known that the entrainment ratio (ratio between the mass flow rates of the entrained secondary fluid to the primary fluid) is one of the major parameters that influence the coefficient of performance (COP) of ejector refrigeration systems (Buyadgie et al. (2010), Chunnanond & Aphornratana (2004b)). Furthermore, the use of two chemically distinct fluids in the forward and reverse Rankine cycles of an ejector refrigeration system can improve the COP (Buyadgie et al. (2010)) when the selected binary fluids have different enthalpies of vaporization and different molecular masses. Several experimental investigations have been carried out to study the effect of ejector geometry on its performance….

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Martinuzzi

Student:

Partner:

May-Ruben Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Development and validation of a biomanufacturing process yielding a bacterial formulation for bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated marine environments

Oil spills are among the most damaging environmental threats to marine ecosystems. To this day, there are
several methods for decontaminating marine sites. However, bioremediation (including the addition of specialized
microorganisms) is often the best solution from an efficiency and eco-responsibility point of view. However, an
important limitation remains regarding the application of this approach, namely the production, formulation and
dispersion of the added microorganisms in the affected areas.
Alcanivorax borkumensis is a marine bacterium specialized in the biodegradation of oil and its population in the
affected ecosystems increases following an oil spill, making it a microorganism of choice for the bioremediation
of marine ecosystems contaminated by hydrocarbons. Adding high concentrations of this bacterium will greatly
accelerate bioremediation.
Thus, the objective of this project is to develop a process that will produce this bacterium in a highly viable form,
thus, leading to high biodegradation rates following its addition to the contaminated marine sites.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Vermette;Denis Groleau

Student:

Partner:

Proventus Bioscience Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Machine Learning Tools and Visualization Tools Software Development for Custom Instrumar Fiber Sensor

Instrumar Limited’s core technology platform is based on the measurement of electrical properties of materials that come in contact with its sensor. The sensor generates a tightly confined electromagnetic field that detects the properties as material enters this field. The sensor is sensitive to the amount, the shape, its density, temperature, conductivity, impurities, moisture content and flow speed of the material. The sensors sample data in real time and provide feedback based on parameters that are determined through extensive testing. Our current approach for providing customers with useful information is a manual, time consuming process that is not very scalable. In order to more quickly gather insights from our data, be able to better react to our sensor outputs and provide valuable and timely information to our customers we are working on standardizing our software and customer adoption processes. We are building a stack needed to use machine and advanced learning tools to uncover and appropriately visualize patterns that are not obvious to process engineers or to production experts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ed Brown

Student:

Partner:

Instrumar

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Optimisation de l’aérodynamique d’un bateau de course. Tests en soufflerie

L’aérodynamique et la stabilité sont deux éléments importants pour les hydroplanes qui sont des bateaux de
course conçus pour voler au-dessus de l’eau. À grandes vitesses, l’air s’engouffre dans le tunnel formé sous
l’hydroplane, ce qui soulève le bateau, réduisant la friction avec les vagues. Cependant, cela peut également
conduire à une détérioration des caractéristiques de stabilité. Pour gérer le débit d’air passant sous le bateau et
ainsi la hauteur du devant de l’hydroplane, des ailerons sont utilisés à travers le contrôle de leurs angles d’attaque.
Ce projet de recherche a pour objectif d’évaluer dans la soufflerie les forces aérodynamiques (trainée, portance
et moment de roulis) sur un hydroplane pour plusieurs conditions d’opération et différents ailerons. Ces mesures
permettront de développer des connaissances académiques sur l’aérodynamique et la stabilité qui sont
nécessaires pour la conception des hydroplanes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hachimi Fellouah

Student:

Partner:

Minéraux Mart Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

New Techniques for Continuous Biohydrogen Production from Poplar Biomass

Through decades of mining and oil exploration, over 10,000 contaminated sites are found in Canada with toxic levels of heavy metals and harmful contaminants. In many cases, the contamination is on local farmland and the impacts on the environment and especially on the native communities and Indigenous inhabitants is devastating. This project will be committed to use abandoned mines in order to provide biomass by planting poplar trees which are resistant to the contaminations in order to lead biomass to the biohydrogen production. In this way, along with greenization of the polluted soil and marginal lands, the biomass of poplar leaves is considered as a sustainable approach for biohydrogen production as a promising energy resource. In order to achieve these goals, experts will set up a system based on the selected target mine heavy metal levels to grow the most promising cultivars of poplars and consequently, the biomass system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ibrahim Dincer

Student:

Partner:

Viona Group Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Natural Resources; Environmental Science and Technology; Green/Alternative Energy

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Test Development

To increase the production of EV chargers to meet market demand, there needs to be advanced engineering solutions and demonstrated knowledge of EV charger testing and performance. More solutions and capabilities will result in greater support for product development. Celestica and the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University will collaboratively develop a testing solution to be used for a variety of EV chargers. This solution will be tested on a laboratory-scaled prototype. Its results will be collected and shared to inform future development of EV charging infrastructure. Development of the test solutions has an end goal of enabling increased production capacity of EV charging stations to meet market demand.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bala Venkatesh;Mohammadreza Arani

Student:

Partner:

Celestica

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Screening of Pre-Cancerous Oral Lesions via Dual-Spectral Autofluorescence

The proposed project will focus on expanding upon existing autofluorescence based cancer screening techniques. In particular, our efforts will be focused on using a dual-spectral approach to extract the intrinsic fluorescence of the sample. Current methods of autofluorescence based oral cancer screening capitalize on the fact that tumorous or pre-cancerous tissue exhibits reduced autofluorescence relative to healthy tissue. Because hemoglobin absorbs the autofluorescence emissions of interest, increased blood-flow to an area can results in false positives and unnecessary biopsies. Our proposed method is to quantify the amount of fluorescence signal being absorbed via a reflectance channel tuned to the wavelengths of the autofluorescence emission. By dividing the fluorescence signal by this channel, we expect to minimize the effects of hemoglobin absorption, which could potentially reduce false positives if employed in a clinical setting. The partner organization could potentially commercialize an apparatus such as this which would have the potential to streamline oral cancer screening.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marinko Sarunic

Student:

Partner:

MTT Innovation Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Main Street Support

Working with CBDC NB, the interns will form a digital squad which will works with business owners to improve their digital presence. The squad takes the digital recommendations and guides businesses to determine what the priorities are to give the business owner the most traction in the digital world. The squad works with multiple business owners and uses available resources to find solutions and create a positive and productive relationship.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Rinehart

Student:

Partner:

New Brunswick Association of Community Business Development Corporations

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.