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Sustainable and Reusable Face Masks for Combating the Spread of COVID-19

This project seeks to develop a novel, sustainable, self-sanitizing face masks for purpose of providing more robust solutions and mitigate the health risks for the front line workers and general public during this, as well as any future pandemics. This is accomplished by design of novel filters composing of cellulose derived nanofibrils and electrochemically exfoliated graphene, and 3D printing the lightweight, customizable face mask body. Cellulose nanofibrils are made of renewable, recyclable natural resources—pulp is the main source material—and testing to date suggests that it is non-toxic and its production poses no serious environmental risks. Graphene is chemically identical to graphite (widely used in pencil lead), and safe to dispose. anada has become a leader in production of new materials from cellulose, and the proposed project directly supports the development of Canada renewable sector while combating the spread of COVID 19 pandemic and climate change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Milana Trifkovic;Edward Roberts

Student:

Partner:

RECYCL3D

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Study of swine metabolism in a cell line model

Understanding swine metabolism is important to the pork industry, for the improvement of feed efficiency and meat quality, in addition to animal wellbeing. We have recently discovered two stress genes (Luman/CREB3 and LRF/CREBRF) that regulate animal responses to stress. Mutation of these Luman or LRF gene resulted in animals that are more tolerate to stress, in the meantime being lean with very low abdominal fat. Here we propose to further our study on how these genes regulate metabolism using a swine liver cell system. We believe that the proposed research will cast light on the underlying mechanism of why our mutant mice are lean, at the molecular and cellular level. The outcomes of this research will not only benefit the pork industry by increasing production efficiency and enhancing animal welfare, but may also help understand and treat various metabolic diseases of humans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ray Lu

Student:

Partner:

Alliance Genetics Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Discount Pricing Recommendations

It is well known that retailers have razor-thin margins. A few discount percentage points can make the difference between a bad and an excellent year. The goal of this project is to make sure that Altitude Sports’ prices are optimized to satisfy customers and maximize margins, all year long. There are a lot of factors influencing pricing decisions such as official and unofficial MAP (Minimum Price Policies enforced by brands), stock velocity, season stock levels, stock scarcity, cashflow and price elasticity. Furthermore, price elasticity in itself is highly variable. It varies by brands, styles, on/off peak seasons (ex: Black Friday), product category (ex: winter jackets in summer) and current promotions / discount levels. The project aims at developing a discount pricing recommendation system to maximize profit margin before or after shipping and logistics. The research will also lead to predictions on sales volume and margin, based on pricing recommendation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabian Bastin

Student:

Partner:

Altitude Sports

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Fracture patterns and their control on erosion and geohazards on the Niagara Escarpment, Hamilton, Ontario

The Niagara Escarpment is a dominant landform in southern Ontario and provides the region with exceptional sites of natural beauty including numerous waterfalls and exposed rocky cliffs. However, the escarpment is also a geomorphic feature formed by ongoing erosion processes that create many challenges for those living near or enjoying its natural beauty. Unfortunately, there is very little information or quantitative data regarding the nature of erosion processes or the rates at which they operate along the escarpment. The proposed project aims to investigate one of the major controls on erosion processes active along the escarpment, namely the characteristics of breaks and fractures in the rock units that allow water to penetrate and ice to form in the rocks. This information will provide information that may be used by government agencies, recreational users, and the public to protect and maintain access to this important geomorphic feature.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander L. Peace

Student:

Partner:

APGO Education Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Model Calibration and Optimization of Oil Sands Tailings Electrokinetic Dewatering

Alberta oil sands mining operations have produced about 1 billion m3 of fluid fine tailings (FFT) stored in large “ponds” up to 10 km long and 4 km wide. FFT is a stable colloidal suspension that is forecasted to take decades to dewater if left undisturbed. The EKS-DT process, developed by ElectroKinetic Solutions, has the potential to be a cost-effective technology for dewatering FFT; understanding how the FFT properties respond to the EKS-DT process is a critical step in commercializing the technology. The EKS Model is a computer simulation program designed for this purpose. The proposed research will generate the data needed to improve the accuracy of the simulation. This information will be used to improve the efficiency of the EKS-DT process, bringing the technology closer to commercialization. Once commercialized, the EKS-DT process will enable Canada to reduce the significant environmental liability presented by the large FFT inventory.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Japan Trivedi

Student:

Partner:

ElectroKinetic Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Determining Impacts of Harvesting on Clam Beds in the Nanoose Bay Recreational Shellfish Reserve

The Nanoose Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) represents the Nanoose First Nation, who harvest clams from the Nanoose Bay Recreational Shellfish Reserve. Clams are a culturally significant food source for the Indigenous peoples in these traditional lands, and the potential overharvesting of clams in this area may impose irreversible negative effects.
By completion of a literature review, in-person surveys and observations, as well as observations from video footage of harvesting from the Shellfish Reserve, this project aims to determine the effects that potential overharvesting may have. The findings may be used to enhance conservation efforts for this culturally and ecologically significant species. This will not only benefit the partner organization, but will benefit the ecosystem in question, and the Indigenous peoples who rely on this species as a food source. If it is found that too much pressure is being placed on the clam beds, the Nanoose First Nation may propose installation of educational signage and advocate for stricter regulation or changes in policy to conserve the species.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pamela Shaw

Student:

Partner:

Nanoose Economic Development Corporation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Accelerate

Arctic Research Foundation UX/UI searchable database

The Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is a private, non-profit organization creating a scientific infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic. Over the years, it has generated and collected a huge volume of big data. These valuable big data need to be managed. In response, we design an effective database to (a) integrate these big data (which may be of a wide variety of data types, formats, etc.) from different sources, (b) manage them, (c) catalogue the data, (d) extract useful information from the data, and (e) make the data accessible to researchers and public. By doing so, we centralize these disparate raw data collected by ARF vessels, mobile labs, and equipment from across the Arctic into a universally readable and easily searchable database. Moreover, we add an easily understandable, highly usable user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) elements so that the resulting searchable database can be easily accessible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Dueck;Carson Leung;Reynard Dela Torre

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Red River College; University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

High Performance Cold Spray Process Development

PolyCSAM is a new industrial-scale cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) facility created by Polycontrols to address production and industrialization challenges. It serves as a demonstrator and an innovation/development platform. A recent strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis revealed that the supply chain is solid and diversified for all key components, with the exception of the cold spray (CS) gun itself. There is a clear business opportunity for Polycontrols to come up with innovations that have the potential to be disruptive in the world of CS additive manufacturing. The objective of this project is to develop a new high-performance CS gun that exploits the potential innovations in the following areas: recurrent nozzle clogging, nozzle designs maximizing particle’s impact velocity & temperature, coating internal diameters, and efficient powder preheating. Specific activities that will develop new innovative solutions to allow for the production of a new gun that reaches a technology readiness level of 5 will be performed using CFD and modern engineering design tools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bertrand Jodoin

Student:

Partner:

Polycontrols

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

AI enabled audio-visual annotation for endoscopic procedures

Video endoscopy is the main diagnostic and screening method for cancer screening in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Currently, the endoscopic video is not sufficiently documented, which makes reviewing of these videos difficult. The research team will partner with the company to develop an audio/video recording technology to combine physician voice annotation of the video during the endoscopy procedure. This project will produce more detailed documented endoscopic video and allow more accurate comparison of videos recorded at different time to monitor disease progress.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiyin Fang

Student:

Partner:

AzadMedica Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Pilot Plant for Lithium Extraction from Saskatchewan Brine Deposits

With the growth in demand for electric vehicles and mobile devices powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, demand for lithium is expected to increase by over 200% in the next decade. Current lithium production comes primarily from Australia, South America and China. There are significant lithium reserves in the same Saskatchewan aquifers currently being exploited for their concomitant oil reserves. Although the lithium concentration in these aquifers is lower than in brines being mined elsewhere, new lithium selective extraction technologies show great promise for making extraction of lithium from these aquifers economical. Prairie Lithium has previously identified a lithium selective ion exchange material that can extract more than 99% of the lithium in a brine sample in only 4 minutes. The project described here involves the modification, deployment, and optimization of a commercial pilot unit to demonstrate the viability of using this extraction methodology to develop the first lithium brine mine in Saskatchewan using produced water from oil and gas production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shafiq Alam

Student:

Partner:

Prairie Lithium

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

High purity diamond deposition system

Synthetic diamond allows to exploit technologically relevant properties at much more affordable costs than based on natural diamond. While early applications related to the extraordinary hardness of diamond, more recent applications target the outstanding heat conductivity and dedicated point defects that allow for the control of individual paramagnetic states. This has extended the requirements for the controlled growth beyond the requirements for a high-quality bulk structure towards the engineering of surface passivation and defect state populations via dopants. On a microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition system that is soon to be completed, Plasmionique targets the development of stable and reproducible processes to achieve these goals in collaboration with a scientific partner: Andreas Ruediger from INRS-EMT will conduct the structural and functional characterisation to provide continuous and fast feedback on the effect of process parameters on the desired properties. Dr. Muchemu has acquired in depth knowledge on plasma processes and optical spectroscopy techniques during his PhD at University of Toronto and will have the opportunity to deepen his scientific knowledge and to complement it in almost daily exchange with all partners about the technological and commercial requirements for national and internationals competitiveness in the field of thin film deposition technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andreas Ruediger

Student:

Partner:

Plasmionique Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Follow up of horses treated with stem cells at eQcell Inc.

For over 10 years, eQcell Inc. has been treating horses with stem cells. In order to efficiently direct future research, a full picture of the efficacy of past treatments is necessary. This project will follow up with all clients across 8 clinics to collect an up-to-date snapshot of previously treated horses’ health and progression or regression from the time of treatment. These data will help generate hypotheses and narrow the research focus of the company to where stem cells may be best applied. This work fits within the overall vision of eQcell to develop novel treatment strategies for various equine diseases and conditions that will ultimately lead to a reduction in the number of Ontario horses affected by disease, reduce the number lost training days due to serious conditions resulting in a net positive impact on the Canadian and global equine industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan LaMarre

Student:

Partner:

eQcell

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

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