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Innovative Use of Compost at Brady Road Resource Management Facility

The proposed research aims to develop general design parameters needed to optimize a large-scale landfill biocover for countering landfill methane emissions at Brady Road Resource Management Facility (BRRMF). The intern will conduct column studies aimed at determining the optimum combination of yard waste and leaf compost and biosolids compost for facilitating the growth of methane oxidizing bacteria known as “methanotrophs” in the landfill cover. Test condition variables will include full and non-enrichment, and the effects of temperature, moisture, freeze/thaw, and methane loads with removal examined both horizontally and vertically within the columns. The partner company KGS Group of Winnipeg has established itself within the landfill management areas for the City of Winnipeg Landfills. The proposed column experiments will prove the concept of an engineered biological cover at BRRMF and allow KGS Group to properly implement a full-scale biocover application to a section of landfill cell at the site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiuyan Yuan

Student:

Partner:

KGS Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating the use of public food forests in urban food systems planning

Public food forests can be an important way to increase urban resilience, sustainability, and food security. The food forest, or forest garden, is an edible landscape designed for food production. This research investigates how publicly-accessible urban food forests are currently being utilized to enhance food production and resilience. By reviewing existing examples, this research seeks to identify key models for design, participatory decision-making, and ongoing management of food forests on public land. This research will inform Integrated Living Landscapes of recent developments in this field and assist the Company in communicating the strengths, benefits, risks, opportunities, and best practices of public food forest design to potential clients. A summary of recommendations and presentation of key models will be given to the partner organization, Integrated Living Landscapes, to inform future food systems planning and design with municipal and institutional partners within the City of Victoria.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Duncan Taylor

Student:

Partner:

Integrated Living Landscapes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

By the North with the North: Community Building in Northern Saskatchewan

This unique research project, undertaken by Master of Northern Governance and Development (MNGD) students, contributes significantly to our understanding of the North. The research focuses on community-based responses to rapid economic, social, and environmental changes and the development of the local capacity to respond. The analysis is collaborative, involving key stakeholders at the community and multi-community levels, and is informed by their values and interests. This project is aptly named as it is truly by the north with the north, with a focus on the north’s interests in building sustainable, healthy, educated communities with improved economic and social outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Patrick;Ken Coates;Carin Holroyd;Lee Swanson;Hayley Hesseln

Student:

Partner:

Cameco Corporation (Saskatoon, SK);University of Saskatchewan

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Efficient Cathodes for the Chlorate Process

The proposed project focuses on the research & development of efficient electrode materials for use in the Chlorate Process that produces bleaching agents used in the pulp & paper industry. As an electrochemical process, significant portions of the production costs of chlorate are attributable to electrical power consumption; therefore, improvements in energetic efficiency would result in appreciable reductions in production costs. Major energetic losses arise from inefficient electrode materials and the instability of catalytic coatings on the electrodes resulting from the harsh operating conditions. Our research aims to identify stable and efficient electrode materials using the techniques and expertise developed by the partner organization, FireWater Fuel Corp., for related hydrogen production applications. FireWater Fuel will benefit from the ability to attract highly trained personnel to our team in order to accelerate the commercialization of our catalyst technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd Christopher Sutherland

Student:

Partner:

Click Materials Corp

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Nanotechnology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Impacts of Environmental Change on Subsistence Land Use

My internship focuses on the creation of a weighted scale that ranks different types of environmental disturbances, both natural (i.e. wildfires) and anthropogenic (i.e. seismic activity), by the level of transformation they incur in arctic tundra ecosystems. Currently, there is a lack of a widely used ranking system to help understand which types of environmental disturbances in the arctic are most severe. This project will analyze existing data and literature to create a weighting system that evaluates the severity of environmental perturbations and the amount of time that each disturbance persists on the land. This will allow for the evaluation of environmental impacts in relation to one-another. This is of direct relevance to my partner organization, Kwusen, as Kwusen consults on a number of projects that encounter similar types of ecological disturbances in other regions of Canada. Therefore, my work has the potential to inform current and future research that Kwusen engages in

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Faculty Supervisor:

Trevor Lantz

Student:

Partner:

Kwusen Research and Media Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Feature-based 3D Robot Motion Programming

Path programming for various robot applications in the industry involves precise specification of data for coordinated control of the different moving parts, arms, limbs, joints, etc. in order to optimally perform application specific tasks. Robotmaster™ software from Jabez Technologies is used to plan and simulate robotic operations and generate robot code for industrial applications. Robotmaster recently won the Robotics Game Changer Award for enhancing the way in which robots are programmed, facilitating their adoption in new and technologically emerging applications. Presently, Robotmaster does not have 3D CAD/CAM capabilities. This severely restricts the scope of its applicability. The main objective of this project is to enhance Robotmaster to enable specialized operations planning and programming for robot tasks in full 3D, such as cutting, trimming, spray painting, machining, welding, etc. A feature-based path programming strategy is being investigated and adopted. Various issues related to specialized path programming will be investigated and suitable solutions implemented to enhance Robotmaster with these capabilities, with improved performance and wider scope of applications. This could help significantly increase the customer base for Robotmaster and benefit Jabez Technologies, Quebec and Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Jaumard

Student:

Partner:

Hypertherm Robotic Software

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

The application of Dried Blood Spot samples to Nutraceutical Metabolomics studies and related applications using LCMS based detection

The current approach for testing compounds of interest in blood such as drugs or nutrients involves drawing blood samples into vials that then require refrigeration prior to testing. Since transportation to remote laboratories is challenging, people need to go into medical labs to have their blood tested. This research will develop improved techniques that enable blood samples to be collected from a finger prick onto a specially designed card that eliminates biohazards and makes the sample stable at room temperature so that it could be mailed or sent by courier to a lab. This work will develop blood collection cards that make analysis simpler and more efficient. Ultimately, individuals may be able to collect their own blood samples at home and send these to labs for analysis rather than needing to go to a lab to have their blood drawn. In short this research will improve access to blood testing. Word count:

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liang Li

Student:

Partner:

Supra Research and Development

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Development of analytical methods to monitor Curcumin compounds from Dried blood spot (DBS) samples

The work will develop a simple blood test that will enable the detection of a valuable Natural Health Product, Curcumin, that is commonly found in Tumeric, to be detected in blood samples from only a simple finger prick. It is believed that curcumin has important medicinal effects such as anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activities. However, it is known that Curcumin absorption is quite low from simple consumption of turmeric and as a result a simple blood test will enable proper estimation of body absorption amounts for this valuable Natural Health Product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liang Li

Student:

Partner:

Supra Research and Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Long term modelling of power prices

Power prices are a significant contributor to the overall risk of almost any large-scale industry. In particular, energy companies such as TransAlta who are active participants in many regional power markets have a strong interest in understanding the long-term risks they are exposed to. This project seeks to develop a model that will help TransAlta to understand some of the uncertainty in medium to long-term power prices in California, the Pacific northwest, and Alberta. This model will be based on the dynamics of daily settled power prices, and will seek to take into account projected changes in demand, generation capacity and emissions regulations, as well as any forward-looking information embedded in market prices for futures and other derivative contracts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Ware

Student:

Partner:

TransAlta Corporation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation of a charging system for small electric vehicles using lithium ion batteries

Electric golf carts and other low speed electric vehicles use lead acid batteries. There are now more than two million low speed electric vehicles operating in North America. Based on lithium ion replacement and demonstration programs carried out by Electra and our partners, there appears to be a strong interest from these industries and other low speed vehicle manufacturers to convert to lithium ion battery packs. A majority of the fleets using low speed electric vehicles in North America have purchased and set up charging infrastructures for their vehicles. All of the chargers currently used are designed for lead acid batteries. If these chargers are used to charge lithium ion battery packs there is a high probability of damage occurring to the lithium ion packs due to an improper charging profile. In this proposal a development plan is presented for the development of a charge optimization system that will allow the continued use of lead acid chargers for lithium ion battery packs. The charge optimization system would work with the lead acid charger and would provide the optimized voltage and current profiles in real time for a lithium ion battery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Partner:

Electra Motor Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Battery Rickshaws in New Delhi: Socio-Economics and Environmental Impact

In the past four years, the number of battery-powered rickshaws in New Delhi has grown from a few dozen to around 100,000. These vehicles have zero-emissions, play an important role in the urban transport system and provide employment opportunities for low-income groups. However, they are not covered by existing transport regulations and there is currently debate amongst local and national policymakers, the judiciary, operators and civil society as to how to regulate them. There is, however, little information on which to base regulatory decisions and little is known about the level of regulation operators can bear. This study aims to fill this lacuna by providing the first systematic survey of operators, their vehicles, their operations and their costs and revenues. It will also assess the environmental impact of battery rickshaws by investigating the recycling processes and value-chains in the informal recycling sector for the lead-acid batteries which power them. It will then make policy recommendations regarding appropriate regulation and environmental impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Milind Kandlikar

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Efficient design of quiet turbomachinery stages with a unique coupling method

Most current propulsion and ventilation systems still suffer from poor efficiency, noise issues and too high emission levels. Little efficiency gain could yield significant reduction of energy waste, noise pollution, gas consumption and pollutant emission. Moreover a lot of the large rotating facilities do not meet their target performances and suffer from early degradation and fatigue issues causing some significant cost increase and losses to the companies producing them. Current design tools of such systems have been shown to be limited by their too strong modeling assumptions on the actual unsteady and turbulent nature of the flow in these systems. The present project proposes to combine the most accurate and efficient turbulent flow solver AVBP with a massively parallel code coupler OpenPALM. A coupling method based on the overset grid approach will be developed and tested to couple multi-copies of the massively-parallel unstructured compressible LES solver for turbomachinery applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stéphane Moreau

Student:

Partner:

Mecanum Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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