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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

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

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.

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 » Pro-Climate Behaviours

Characterizing barriers to and opportunities for achieving pro-climate behaviours in Atlantic Canada

January 2023 – March 2025

Reducing emissions by changing how we act

Determining critical behavioural interventions for enabling an effective transition to net-zero emissions in Atlantic Canada’ is a multi-year research project being led by