Grants and Contributions

Membership to CIE allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

Membership to IMU allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

Membership to EUREKA SECRETARIAT allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

In collaboration with National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) worldwide, including NRC, the BIPM fulfills its mandate of providing the basis for a single, coherent system of measurements throughout the world, traceable to the International System of Units (SI). This mandate is carried out through a series of consultative committees whose members are the national metrology laboratories of the Member States, and through the BIPM’s own laboratory work, which includes carrying out measurement-related research and calibrations in selected areas for some Member States, depending on the technical sophistication of their NMIs. National Metrology Institutes then disseminate measurement standards through calibration services to national scientific, industrial, commercial, and public sector users.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is a 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope, located atop the summit of Mauna kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. The CFHT is designed to collect optical and infrared electromagnetic radiation. The CFHT Observatory, consisting of the telescope and its facilities, is jointly funded and operated by Canada, France and the State of Hawaii.

Though green hydrogen production has the potential to reduce 37% of energy?related emissions if scaled, the process faces adoption challenges due to high costs, compromised system reliability, and loss in performance/efficiencies. Owing to the complexity of the electrolyser system, off-design operating conditions lead to performance degradation mechanisms that could not historically be monitored or managed at the industrial stack scale. Pulsenic’s Propriety Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) device will enable monitoring and differentiating the degradation losses during a high current electrolysis process, which in return could provide information and data about the behaviour of the components during on/off-design operating condition. The objective of this project is to use this stack level data enabled by Pulsenic’s device to develop a model of a renewably powered electrolysis plant that correlates operating and stack design conditions with the electrolyser efficiencies. This model will map the relationship between operating/design conditions and electrolyser degradations to inform optimization choices for improved reliability and costs. Enabled by the collaborators(NRC, UQTR and uVic) technical expertise in material and electrochemical degradation characterizations and modeling innovations, this Project will produce a novel solution for managing the performance and economics of electrolysis plant operations.

Though green hydrogen production has the potential to reduce 37% of energy?related emissions if scaled, the process faces adoption challenges due to high costs, compromised system reliability, and loss in performance/efficiencies. Owing to the complexity of the electrolyser system, off-design operating conditions lead to performance degradation mechanisms that could not historically be monitored or managed at the industrial stack scale. Pulsenic’s Propriety Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) device will enable monitoring and differentiating the degradation losses during a high current electrolysis process, which in return could provide information and data about the behaviour of the components during on/off-design operating condition. The objective of this project is to use this stack level data enabled by Pulsenic’s device to develop a model of a renewably powered electrolysis plant that correlates operating and stack design conditions with the electrolyser efficiencies. This model will map the relationship between operating/design conditions and electrolyser degradations to inform optimization choices for improved reliability and costs. Enabled by the collaborators(NRC, UQTR and uVic) technical expertise in material and electrochemical degradation characterizations and modeling innovations, this Project will produce a novel solution for managing the performance and economics of electrolysis plant operations.

Trax Electronics has developed, and is actively marketing, an autonomous robotic drill bit scanning and analysis system. As part of that system, proprietary 3D models are constructed to use in the analyses. The goal of this project is to enhance the capabilities of the existing system, so that it could be used in a broad range of metrology applications which would include, but not be limited to:

1. QA/QC for manufacturing applications
2. Scanning of parts to allow on-demand 3D printing to
   i) reduce supply chain issues
   ii) reduce inventory carrying costs
   iii) reduce transportation requirements

The project aims to develop and validate an in-home rehabilitation system which can guide the elderly person through a set of optimized and individualized exercises after a total joint replacement surgery, as well as to monitor for potential serious postoperative complications, such as infections and deep vein thrombosis. To ensure ease-of-use and user?friendly installation, the Project will investigate remote (not attached to the human) and cost-effective sensors technologies, such as 2D and 3D cameras, as well as thermographic cameras for this purpose. Furthermore, algorithms will be developed to detect robustly whole body motions, as well as small joint motions of the elderly user. These information can be used to provide feedback to the user in real-time to ensure the exercises are performed correctly and to the full potential. Furthermore, the newly developed methods will be tested in a preliminary clinical study and compared to state-of-the-art motions tracking methods to ensure practicality, robustness, and accuracy.

The project aims to develop and validate an in-home rehabilitation system which can guide the elderly person through a set of optimized and individualized exercises after a total joint replacement surgery, as well as to monitor for potential serious postoperative complications, such as infections and deep vein thrombosis. To ensure ease-of-use and user?friendly installation, the Project will investigate remote (not attached to the human) and cost-effective sensors technologies, such as 2D and 3D cameras, as well as thermographic cameras for this purpose. Furthermore, algorithms will be developed to detect robustly whole body motions, as well as small joint motions of the elderly user. These information can be used to provide feedback to the user in real-time to ensure the exercises are performed correctly and to the full potential. Furthermore, the newly developed methods will be tested in a preliminary clinical study and compared to state-of-the-art motions tracking methods to ensure practicality, robustness, and accuracy.