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Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Quantifying Emissions Reductions in Ships with Crowdsourced Weather Routing
December 2023 – March 2025
90% of the world's goods are transported by ships, which run on fossil fuel. This creates more greenhouse gas emissions than airlines.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Design and Construction of a Prototype Micro-combined Heat and Power Unit Operating on an Organic Rankine Cycle Fueled with Hydrogen-enriched Natural Gas Up to 100% Hydrogen
December 2023 – March 2025
Transitioning to a green hydrogen economy requires end-use applications. Micro-Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems provide both heat and electric power that can be used in residential homes, apartment complexes, and small commercial operations.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
AI-Driven Benchmarking Tool for Emission Reduction in Canadian Dairy Farms
December 2023 – March 2025
Central to our project is the development of the Sustainable Dairy Farming Navigator (SDFN). This tool, leveraging artificial intelligence, is tailored to address the complexities of dairy farming.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Development of a regionally validated mid-infrared soil spectral library and predictive models to enable efficient, accurate and low-cost characterization of soil carbon content and sequestration potential in Nova Scotia agricultural and forest soils
September 2023 – March 2025
Drawing upon existing and new agriculture and forestry soil collections acquired from diverse project partners (NSFA, NRCan, NSDA, OMAFRA, IRDA), this project will characterize soil organic carbon (SOC) content and storage potential, as influenced by inherent soil properties (e.g., soil texture)
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Improving the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Nova Scotia’s Wild Blueberry Industry
September 2023 – March 2025
Bragg Lumber Company is a Nova Scotia based food production and forestry company. The company focuses on wild blueberry and carrot production. The company owns or leases 48,000 acres of commercial fields and provides custom farm operations for an additional 10,000 acres of wild bluebe
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Exploring pathways to net-zero: utilizing advanced energy system modelling to investigate the impact of long-duration energy storage on Nova Scotia's energy transition
September 2023 – March 2025
This research project seeks to determine the potential role of long-duration energy storage in achieving a decarbonized electricity system in Nova Scotia by 2050.
Tidal Energy » Marine Life
Finite Element Analysis to Assess Fish Mortality from Interactions with Tidal Turbine Blades
February – December 2017
The research project used finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate the impact of a tidal turbine blade on fish, and assess whether mortality of marine life can be expected in such an event.
Tidal Energy » Infrastructure and Best Practices
Nova Scotia Energy Sector – Targeted Export Market Analysis
February – October 2017
As part of Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Mines’ (NSDEM) mandate to investigate economic opportunities for Nova Scotia technology developers and supply chain service providers, a global energy market analysis was commissioned.
Tidal Energy » Marine Life
Tidal Turbine Marine Life Interaction Study: Fish
May 2016 – May 2017
This study at Dalhousie University’s Aquatron test tank monitored the behaviour of striped bass in the presence of an active tidal turbine. The research drew on expertise and experience from different parts of Canada and Europe over a one year project period.
Tidal Energy » Marine Life
Use of Bottom-Mounted Hydro-Acoustic Sonar to Assess Fish Presence and Vertical Distribution at the FORCE In-Stream Tidal Turbine Test Site in Minas Passage
May 2016 – April 2017
To better understand fish use of the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) site and their potential for interaction with in-stream tidal devices, this study examined how fish density and vertical distribution varied with respect to environmental factors, in particular tidal stage and tim