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Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Developing a C-budget model for balsam fir Christmas tree orchards and enhancing carbon drawdown.
December 2023 – March 2025
Nova Scotia is one of the largest producers of Christmas trees in Canada with over 5,000 hectares currently in production growing millions of trees. The Nova Scotian industry harvests over 1 million trees each year.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Towards a Net Zero and Resilient New Brunswick Grid via Vehicle to X Technology
December 2023 – March 2025
Efforts to boost intermittent renewables and electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the New Brunswick (NB) grid will indeed reduce emissions, however, it will also result in irregular electricity patterns that are highly localized and volatile, thus threatening grid stability and slowing emission redu
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
Photocatalyts for sunlight driven simultaneous hydrogen generation and plastic degradation.
December 2023 – March 2025
Hydrogen is an important feedstock for various chemical processes and a promising green energy source for producing electricity and heat. However, its production via steam-methane reforming releases ~8.6 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of hydrogen manufactured.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Developing a toolset to evaluate carbon sequestration in New Brunswick mudflats
December 2023 – March 2025
Mudflats are a globally common intertidal ecosystem, typically located seaward of salt marshes and beaches.
Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program
Sustainable Hydrogen Generation Using Novel Heterogeneous Nanocomposites
December 2023 – March 2025
Green chemical pathways are indeed desirable in alternative fuel generation. Solar, wind and hydrogen (H2)-derived methods afford a means of capitalizing on environmentally advantageous resources that limit GHG emissions during power-generation.
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.
Hydrogen
Decarbonizing Nova Scotia’s Industrial Sector with Green Hydrogen
March – December 2024
Three of Nova Scotia’s largest industrial manufacturers – Shaw, PHP, and Michelin – have formed a Decarbonization Working Group interested in investigating with NZA the feasibility and the GHG emission reduction potential of using hydrogen in industrial process heating.