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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Mapping Ontario’s NanoTechnology Industry

The purpose of this research project is to collect data on the actors with an interest in nanotechnology – including suppliers, users, researchers, associations and others in order to better understand the networks of innovation and to support NanoOntario’s efforts to facilitate the development of innovation networks and advance nanotechnology. Ontario companies and researchers have made many advances in nanotechnology without explicit policies to support its development, but no one has a real grasp of those advances and no one is ensuring that the advantages of synergies among them are realized to make Ontario truly competitive on the world stage. Whether it is auto or aerospace, pharmaceuticals or agro-foods, steel or composite materials, crop protection or advanced adhesives, electronic circuitry or leading edge ink, no sector that matters to the prosperity of Ontario will succeed in the 21st century without nano innovations. The results of this study will enable better connections between those with nano expertise and facilities on one hand, and those in need of such on the other. Only with a well functioning NanoOntario network can the fragmentation in Ontario’s nanotechnology community be eliminated, and the promise of this enabling technology be realized in the province.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Wendy Cukier & Dr. Krishnan Venkatakrishnan

Student:

Judit Langhammer

Partner:

TRRA

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Flexible Redesign of Bucket for Hard Rock Mining

 

This project will provide Bristol Machine a flexible 3D parametric design of the LHD bucket at a high quality. It will help the company to design the products more efficiently and quickly in response to customers’ specific needs. The LHD bucket will increase productivity by proper selection of wear materials. Also, the FEA analysis will improve and optimize the design for better performance and quality. For instance, the structure stress analysis at LHD bucket back attachment and lip will be optimized the 3D design based on the simulation results. Finally, the company can benefit from the computer aided design not only in speed and quality, but also in cost and productivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Robert Fleisig

Student:

Cheng Wang

Partner:

Bristol Machine

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Devulcanization of Scrap Rubber and Incorporation of Devulcanized Rubber in Virgin Rubber Compounds

In this research crumb rubber derived from scrap tires and scrap automotive rubber products is devulcanized using a thermo-mechanical devulcanization process with supercritical carbon dioxide in a twin screw extruder. Devulcanized rubber then is incorporated in a virgin tire rubber compound in order  to lower the material cost. The main intention of this project is to recycle and re-use the scrap rubbers in new rubber products. For the second stage we are intending to devulcanize the scrap EPDM rubbers from car weather strips and re-use them again for the same application. This research is intended to help both the environment by recycling the scrap rubbers and rubber manufacturer by lowering the cost of raw material. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Alex Penlidis

Student:

Mohammed meysami

Partner:

Tyromer Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Precursor charge prediction for improved peptide identification with mass spectrometry

The research project aims to develop an effective method that utilizes multiple features to improve mass spectrometry based peptide identification with database search approach. The project is a continuation to the student’s previous research on precursor charge state prediction, since predicted charge state is a novel feature and has a great potential to discriminate the correct and incorrect peptide identifications. With the assistance of the company’s onsite developers, the student is supposed to design and implement a method that integrates the additional information of multiple features into PEAKS database search, which will potentially improve the PEAKS database search engine in both accuracy and sensitivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bin Ma

Student:

Lian Yang

Partner:

Bioinformatics Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Improving mining efficiency through sustainable recovery of energy

 

A significant step towards sustainable mining would be non-traditional, but productive uses for the mine. In particular, uses that would allow them to provide value and jobs to the community both during mining and after operations cease. To help in achieving this goal there is potential positive use of both closed and operational mines to provide renew able geothermal energy from their mine waters. The relatively stable temperature of mine water can be exploited by the use of geothermal recovery loops coupled to heat pumps. During the winter, heat can be extracted from the water and supplied for space heating, and in the summer the process can be reversed, and the heat transferred back to the water to provide cooling. This project will combine direct measurements within mines with modeling to determine a feasible design for geothermal energy recovery in Canadian hard rock mines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ashley Scott

Student:

Andrew Hall

Partner:

CAMIRO

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

Contaminant Treatment in Water using Photocatalysis

 

Emerging contaminants in drinking water are coming under increasing scrutiny as hazards to human and aquatic health. These compounds include pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, Endocrine Disrupting Compounds, and others. At present, the technologies for treating these compounds are costly and inefficient. Photocatalysis has been identified as a promising technique for treating these emerging contaminants in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner. The intern in this project will identify promising photocatalyst materials, and then conduct research into the synthesis, detailed characterization and assessment of the catalytic performance novel photocatalytic materials for the treatment of contaminants in water. Specifically, the candidate, in collaboration with a team of Trojan scientists, will molecularly design catalytic materials that will enable new reaction pathways to effectively transform toxic contaminants found in water to stable, non-toxic products. The objective is to develop effective, low-cost and environmentally friendly ways to treat contaminants and produce safe drinking water. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ajay Ray

Student:

Yin Liu

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Chemicals

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Particle Hydrodynamics for Film Rendering

In this project, the intern will develop computer software used by the film industry in order to simulate new visual effects such as water, blood, and other fluids. This is called fluid simulation. It is very hard, and requires sophisticated mathematics, physics,  and computer programming. Cebas sells a software package called thinkingParticles for the film industry. This software cannot presently simulate fluids in the way that they would work in the real world. Cebas would like to integrate support for fluid simulation in order to differentiate themselves from other software manufacturers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bruch Gooch

Student:

Nicholas Vining

Partner:

Cebas Visual Technology Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Generation of Application Level Traffic Markings For Smartphones

Mobile Network Carriers are experiencing unprecedented data traffic loads which are straining their existing infrastructure. They are thus interested in exploring research areas which focus on reducing this traffic load. The malicious traffic generated by malware on smartphones is of particular interest. My research focuses on the generation of a software system that marks traffic from smartphones to indicate the specific phone application which has generated the data flow. Network carriers will then be able to give good bandwidth allocation to only known and trusted applications while unknown applications, including malware, will not be given the bandwidth allocation they would require to cause significant congestion. As part of the University of Victoria’s Entrepreneurial Engineering Masters Program, I will work closely with experts from Wesley Clover and the Alacrity Foundation with the intention of creating a commercial entity upon completion of the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ted Darcie

Student:

Hunter Macdonald

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

A Survey Design and Analysis On Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implementation in Alberta

 

Nichols Applied Engineering Inc. has been contracted to design and conduct a survey on Alberta BIM implantation, as well as to do the analysis. The proposed survey will result in establishing the outlined baseline data assessing industry attitudes, motivations for BIM adoption (What’s working), understanding key issues, barriers and level of participation as a base to track effectiveness and impact of the future programs and services. The sought outcomes will help increase the global competitiveness of Alberta’s building industry through enhanced productivity and technical competitiveness; it will also form a base for current and future research, analysis and publication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ahmed Bouferguene

Student:

Basel Abdulaal

Partner:

Nichols Applied Management

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Regression Models for Credit Card Strategies

ATB Financial is a large Alberta based full service financial institution. The Card Services department was formed 5 years ago and is growing rapidly. The Card Strategy team within Card Services is developing models and processes to manage marketing campaigns, credit risk management, collections and fraud effectively. The intern will support the team by providing expertise and assistance with model specification and estimation, model validation and management reporting. These duties require advanced knowledge of statistical regression models and their applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Reesor

Student:

Xioali (Shirley) Zhu

Partner:

ATB Financial

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Preparation of Thermoplastic Vulcanizates from Devulcanized Rubber crumb

 

In a broad sense, this research project intends to expand the use of the recycled rubber (also referred to as reclaimed rubber or devulcanized rubber) prepared from waste tires. A new technology has been developed in our lab that leads to preparation of high quality reclaimed rubber (also called devulcanized rubber) in a very simple and economic way. To reduce the threat caused by the increasing number of scrap tires it is essential that the consumption of those reclaimed rubbers be inflated. Due to relatively inferior properties as compared to virgin rubber, the devulcanized rubber cannot be used extensively by itself. Hence, the research intends to explore the use of materials made by blending the devulcanized rubber with cheaply available plastics such as Polyproylene. Resultant materials are referred as Thermoplastics vulcanizates. Blending would also minimize the deteriorating effect caused by the replacement of virgin rubber by the devulcanized rubber. It is evident that the success of this project would help the environment by reducing the land pollution caused by the increasing piles of the tires. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Alex Penlidis

Student:

Prashant Mutyala

Partner:

Tyromer Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Carbon dioxide capture and concentration from combustion flue gases by adsorption based technology

Removal of CO2 from different gas streams, such as fossil fuel combustion gases, is becoming increasingly important to reduce effects of global warming. It is widely recognized that adsorption process is a promising technology provided that materials with high capacity and selectivity toward CO2 are available. Materials with sponge-like properties, such as ordered mesoporous silicas, are ideal for CO2 capture. If this type of material can be made highly efficient, reusable and stable, it will open the path to a low cost carbon sequestration. The performance of this material depends on a number of factors including aging time, temperature of synthesis and addition of specific functional groups to enhance the adsorption properties. A range of samples will be prepared under different synthesis conditions and tested under simulated real process conditions. We expect that the new material could provide a feasible solution to meeting CO2 emission restriction for industry. Since the CO2 adsorption/desorption process will be highly selective and reversible, the captured CO2 could be safely transported and stored, or be released and used for other purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mladen Eic

Student:

Ye Hua

Partner:

Enovex Technology

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

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