Research Portal
Displaying 11 – 20 of 20 results
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 » Technology
Acceleration/Particle Velocity (PA/PV) Measurement System Evaluation in a Tidal Environment
February 2017 – December 2018
The objective of this project was designing and running a field experiment to test the performance of the Particle Acceleration/Particle Velocity (PA/PV) vector sensor.
Tidal Energy » Technology
Analysis of Tidal Turbine Mooring Systems in Turbulent Flows Applying the (Wind Industry) FAST Simulation Tool and DSA ProteusDS Software
March – September 2018
For floating tidal turbine platforms, the turbine forces and resulting platform motions have a direct impact on the lifetime of its moorings and cables. This means the tidal sector must predict accurate tidal turbine loading on floating platforms to determine mooring life and cable longevity.
Tidal Energy » Technology
Assessing Corrosion, Wear, Fatigue and VIV on Moorings and Cabling to Reduce Risk in Marine Operations
October 2017 – August 2018
The cost of cabling and moorings over the entire life of a tidal energy project is a significant proportion of total project expenditures and the potential failure of these components remains a major risk for the emerging tidal energy sector.
Tidal Energy » Technology
In Situ Turbulence Replication and Measurement (InSTREAM)
October 2015 – January 2018
The In Situ Turbulence Replication and Measurement (InSTREAM) project was conceived to address some fundamental questions about the turbulence physics in tidal energy sites and laboratory tanks used to simulate these sites.