Innovative Projects Realized

Using Thermal Feedback for Spatial Awareness in Virtual Reality

In this project, we will utilize thermal feedback for target position identification in a virtual environment, e.g., allow users to know the location and distance of a virtual object with respect to their position based on the location and intensity of the thermal feedback. Our goal is to design and develop a new VR application for collaboration that increases user immersion in the experience by allowing them to know the position of the other users around them using thermal feedback. The Dalhousie intern will travel to Aarhus University to help develop the VR application using a thermal device designed and created by the Aarhus University team members. The benefits to the intern include learning new fabrication skills they can later apply in their thesis. They will also benefit from working with a collaboration expert while creating the application.

Exploring Load-Flexible Ammonia Synthesis for Power-to-X processes

Support électronique et développement d’un ECG portable pour la mesure de pression ambulatoire.

Le stagiaire participera au développement d’un bracelet intelligent visant à améliorer la mesure de la pression artérielle (PA) en y intégrant un capteur d’électrocardiogramme (ECG). Ce projet repose sur les travaux d’une doctorante qui développe un dispositif innovant pour suivre la PA au quotidien, et d’une postdoctorante qui cherche à affiner la précision des modèles d’estimation de la PA. Le rôle du stagiaire sera de concevoir l’électronique nécessaire pour intégrer un capteur ECG dans le bracelet, incluant le choix des électrodes, le développement des circuits d’amplification et de filtration, ainsi que la validation sur des sujets humains.

Sediments as recorders of past climate dynamics and environmental change

Combustion Kinetics of electro- Fuels: Insights from JSR Experiments with TOF-MS and FTIR

Synthesis and Investigation of new Sodium Solid Electrolytes for Batteries

Low power optical sensing system to monitor tree canopy development

Mobile neuroergonomics- about the interaction of walking and visual information processing

Composting anaerobic digestate

The interest in organic waste treatment has increased a lot in the recent years. Among the treatment technologies, anaerobic digestion (AD) has gained a significant role in municipal solid waste management due to its energy recovery benefits. Digestate is the solid material produced from the biodegradation of organic waste during anaerobic digestion process. Management of a high volume of digestate is one of the challenges in AD technology. The digestate can be mixed with the organic waste and then applied to the composting process. Co-composting of digestate with organic waste can shorten the composting times. However, the digestate: fresh organics ratio and the digestate stability are the two critical parameters that should be determined when applying anaerobic and aerobic processes sequentially. The main objective of this study is to identify the digestate effects on composting facility by determining its optimum amount and stability when co-composting with fresh organic waste.
This project helps organics processing system at Waste Management Services to optimize its current process. By improving the rate of composting, the composting capacity throughput could be increased and energy requirements for aeration during the composting process will be also decreased, dramatically.

Assembly and Characterization of the Water Electrolyzer Cell with Varying Configurations

Development of an electrochemical key step for pharmaceutical relevant substances

Reconstruction of Cosmic Ray Air Showers with the Square Kilometre Array