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Hybrid low-Inertia Turbine Storage System (HITSS)

Hybrid low-inertia Turbine Storage System (HITSS) is a samara-inspired wind turbine accompanied by any commercial battery storage system. Inspired by the autorotating maple seeds, the HITSS wind turbine is designed to track the sudden changes of the wind speed in a similar way to maple seeds (samara seeds). The main objective of the proposed project is to develop strategies for gathering market intelligence and learn to assess the market value of HITSS through workshops offered by Lab2Market. Furthermore, the design of HITSS will be tweaked based on the feedback of the potential customers and stakeholders, and a full-size prototype will be built and tested.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Rival

Student:

Adnan El Makdah

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Robust, Efficient, and Scalable Control of Hybrid Energy Systems usingArtificial Intelligence Planning

In the energy industry, as a result of global warming, population growth, and environmental, political, and
economic considerations, a fundamental shift in technology is expected. To address this, in this project we
propose to test the applicability of our Artificial Intelligence technology for solving a challenging computational
problem in the energy sector. We anticipate that our approach can offer significant benefits over currently
employed techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mikhail Soutchanski

Student:

Shakil M. Khan

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

AutoMate: A physiological fatigue detection system for drowsy driving prevention

Sleeping behind the wheel is one of the leading causes of road accidents and there currently exists a lack of definite limits on fatigue. The United States of America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cites that over 100,000 road accidents in 2017 can be directly attributed to drowsy driving , and when over 1 in 2 Ontarian drivers admit to driving drowsy in the last month, it’s easy to see why this can be so dangerous. In fact, going 24 hours without sleep is equal to having a blood alcohol content of 0.10 %. That’s 0.02% above the legal driving limit. Despite knowing the dangerousness of being drowsy while driving, it is difficult to define and set limits on fatigue because of large inter- and intra-driver variability. While the current technologies to this problem are unfeasible and expensive because they are complex and are only available exclusively to high-end cars. The current systems also examine driving behaviour without focusing on the driver, lacking an adaptive user-level approach. Our system, AutoMate, is a portable, low-cost, low-power, fatigue detection system, based on driver physiological signals that detects driver drowsiness and provide haptic stimulation to invoke increased alertness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sridhar Krishnan

Student:

Abdelrahman Abdou

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Rapid bioprinting of ring structures using primary lung epithelial cells for drug screening and wound healing assay

Disease modelling and drug development includes a stage where cells are grown and studied inside a
laboratory under controlled conditions for a varying set of parameters. One of the most commonly
performed lab tests are wound healing or cell migration where the effect of different concentrations of
drug or an allergen is studied over time. The state-of-art method of performing these wound healing
tests lack consistency, time consuming and intrusive. We have developed a method where the cells are
patterned on a surface using an external magnetic field. It takes 3 hours to pattern cells and no scratch
is needed in this case. This method is consistent and is scalable to a micro well plate format. We are
partnering with Lab2Market to perform a market research and customer discovery for the developed
technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ishwar Puri;Jeremy Hirota;Rakesh P Sahu

Student:

Tamaghna Gupta

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

In-field real time phosphate monitoring system for algal bloom prevention

The increase in population and associated contamination of surface and/or ground water with phosphates, nitrates, and heavy metals has resulted in scarcity of clean water in many cities around the world. Phosphate is a major pollutant responsible for the global algal bloom in various water bodies like lakes and ponds. The project focuses on developing a solid-state electrochemical phosphate sensor that can be used as a tool to predict and prevent algal blooms. The sensing system will consist of two electrodes: the phosphate sensing electrode (e.g. metal based sensor) and a reference electrode. Electrochemical sensors have many advantages over the widely used conventional colorimetric sensors. They have minimal or no chemical requirements, show less interference from turbidity, are easy to fabricate and are cost effective. Current electrochemical sensors for phosphate sensing are mainly dominated by metal based potentiometric sensors. However, metal-based sensors have a few critical shortcomings such as limited measuring range (10-1M to 10-5M)[1], single use, and inability to mass manufacture, which limits their application in environmental applications[2], [3]. The project will extend the sensor range to 10-1M to 10-7M which is critical for measuring phosphate in the environment, improve sensor reusability and develop a mass manufacturing process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Student:

Vinay Patel

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

A scalable lab-grown meat with tuneable fat content using tissue engineering techniques

Meat is a food staple that is consumed and enjoyed worldwide. Global meat consumption has grown by with population growth and increase in per person consumption accounting equally for that increase. Further economic development is expected to further increase demand for meat and meat products. Livestock production to meet this insatiable demand is unsustainable due to high water consumption, greenhouse gas emission, accelerated soil erosion and pollution of waterbodies. Although solutions such as promoting low-meat diet style or switching to plant-based proteins have been suggested, their implementation hasn’t been very successful. Here, tissue culture methods developed originally for regenerative medicine have been repurposed for growing meat aggregates (minced meat type granules) in the lab as a way to address this environmental challenge.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Student:

Alireza Shahin-Shamsabadi

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Commercial-Scale Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition Technology

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition technology for depositing thin films that are nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick. Notably, the developed equipment can deposit these films rapidly, over large areas, in open air. This technology can be useful in a number of sectors, such as display technologies, smart windows, microelectronics, and solar cells. In this research project, the intern will use information collected through the Lab2Market commercialization program to make improvements to the technology that will help bring it to market. This will include the development of a new “reactor” that will improve the quality of the deposited films and the speed and efficiency with which they are deposited.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Musselman

Student:

Jhi Yong Loke

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Network-wide bicycle monitoring

Bicycle and pedestrian counts are important data for the planning and design of safe roads. However, these data need to be inspected for quality, a time-consuming task. Part of this project is to make this project simpler, quicker and more accurate. Installing pedestrian and bicycle counters across an entire city road network is not financially viable. Therefore, a good option is to estimate counts at the network scale, using knowledge from a handful of pedestrian and bicycle counters (strategically placed) and trip data from users who willingly share their position from their smartphones.
Eco-Counter, the partner organization, is a world leader is the development of automated pedestrian and cyclist counting systems. The company is expanding into data services and requires additional tools and methods to help their clients (transportation agencies) manage and visualize their data. This project will help Eco-Counter achieve this objective.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luis F. Miranda-Moreno;Kevin Manaugh

Student:

David Beitel

Partner:

Eco-Compteur

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Complete destruction of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water and by-products minimization via a novel Boron-Doped-Diamond anodes electrochemical oxidation

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are anthropogenic compounds with unique properties and wide applications. The consequence of using such persistent chemicals is widespread contamination reported for groundwater, soil, sediment, and wastewater, especially in industrialized countries such as Canada. The endocrine-disrupting and likely carcinogenic nature of PFAS have resulted in strict regulations on PFAS in drinking water. Future regulations are expected for other environmental matrices, which has spurred studies to develop efficient and cost-effective treatment technologies. Electrochemical oxidation has emerged as one of the most promising advanced oxidation processes, achieving PFAS mineralization with little need or no need for chemical addition. The future commercialization of the treatment technologies requires solutions to key technical issues. This partnership between McGill University and Golder Associates will tackle this issue to expand the treatment options available for PFAS and will benefit a variety of end-users in both industrial and public sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinxia Liu

Student:

Min Liu

Partner:

Golder Associates

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of High-Fidelity Computational Continuum MechanicsSoftware

Due to the potential for significant cost-savings, many companies are turning their attention to digital simulations to improve their products and develop new ones. Although software is available to support these efforts, there is a growing need in industry to improve the accuracy of predictions from these codes. The goal of this project is to conduct research required for the development of a new prototype software package for engineering simulations in continuum mechanics (e.g., fluid flows, heat transfer, electromagnetics, etc.) based on an innovative concept known as “cut-stencils”. Compared to existing computational technologies, the cut-stencil approach is well-suited for the design and implementation of algorithms that generate high-fidelity solutions. SOTAES, which has licensed the patent on the cut-stencil technology, is well-positioned to develop this product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ram Balachandar

Student:

Kohei Fukuda;Yuanming Yu

Partner:

SOTAES Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Genomic tools development for international high sea salmon research

Pacific salmon spend most of their life in the open ocean, where we know little about the factors influencing their health and abundance. Last year, we participated in the first expedition to explore the winter habitat of salmon the Gulf of Alaska. We collect samples to inform ongoing research projects focusing on salmon health and their feeding habits, collected environmental DNA samples that allow us to detect the presence of different species in the environment, and were able to pinpoint coho salmon to their river of origin using a mobile genetic stock identification method. Now, we are preparing to follow up this unprecedented expedition with two more research expatiations in the winters of 2020 and 2021. We aim to repeat and refine the results from the first expedition to get an baseline view of the ecosystem in the Gulf of Alaska that is crucial for the survival of our salmon stocks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kristi Miller-Saunders

Student:

Christoph Michael Deeg

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Clean Energy in Remote Communities

As Canada looks to transition to a clean energy system, reducing diesel use in remote communities presents a significant challenge. Despite financial assistance from the federal government, the business case for clean energy projects in remote communities continues to be less than ideal. Without government support for capital costs, renewable energy projects at present are failing to attract private investment. To address this problem, this research project seeks to identify financial (e.g. market-based) tools, provincial/territorial/ and federal energy policies and programs, and regulations which might further advance the business case for renewable energy projects in remote communities, with the ultimate goal of accelerating the clean energy transition, with a focus on Indigenous-owned and led projects. As such, this project aims to better understand how Canada’s efforts to further reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples relates to and impacts sustainable energy transitions in remote communities. This research aims to inform the Pembina Institute’s collaborative efforts with the federal government to accelerate diesel reduction efforts in remote communities in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandra Mallett

Student:

Jessica Leis

Partner:

Pembina Institute

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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