Grants and Contributions

This project will see further development & testing of the Plasmergy system and will start the scale-up design for the indiscriminate conversion of clinical waste and other targeted feedstocks, into low-carbon energy and benign solid residues or commercially viable products. Building on the data and capital assets developed in the Phase 1 project, funded by the PEI Cleantech Research & Innovation Fund, this project will progress the technical and commercial ambitions of Plasmergy PEI, yielding critical operational data and conceptual engineering/design documentation required to underpin fundraising/capital investment for the first 1000tpa commercial plant to be built in phase 3.
The project will be delivered across 5 work packages

The Firm is looking to hire an engineer that will expand the Firm's engineering, automation and software capabilities. The new hire will be working on a new cleantech technology that converts medical waste into low carbon energy. The new gradate will provide assistance to the Head of Engineering and the fabrication team.

By utilizing the novel high-pressure bioreactor technology developed by Advanced Extraction Systems Inc. in collaboration with the NRC, the Project will investigate the effect of pressure on the production of bioactive metabolites by three marine microorganisms.

Participation in the Canadian advanced manufacturing technology co-innovation mission to the Eureka Global Innovation Summit at Hannover Messe (Germany) – March 30 to April 4, 2025. Delegation led by the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to develop international partnerships and potential project ideas under the Eureka Programs.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Production of a clean (residual free) extract containing high levels of antioxidants by valorizing the waste stream created from blueberry juice production. To achieve this, we will exploit a proprietary technology that uses water as the primary solvent operating at high temperature and pressure, which was previously tested through an IRAP grant in 2023 to help establish the viability of a proposed production system.

Bioreactor technology has been poorly explored for marine ecosystems compared to terrestrial ecosystems, both in the context of fundamental R&D and the subsequent translation of innovations from bench to market. The consequence is that the vast majority of marine microbes have never been successfully cultured, leaving untapped the wealth of biodiversity represented by global oceans. This project will focus on addressing capability gaps in the Canadian biotechnology sector by designing and manufacturing a novel bioreactor and associated systems to support the unique technical requirements of atypical microbial fermentation using marine bioresources and marine-derived microbes. This project will provide resources and a collaborative research environment to explore innovations in bioreactor design and operations and to increase the commercial viability of fermentation processes based on marine systems.

AESI plans to research, design, engineer and test the feasibility of producing a novel multi-purpose Bioreactor.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

AESI plans to research, design, engineer and test the feasibility of producing a commercial scale post processing technology that will replace current equipment and methodologies in the natural products extraction industries. Current techniques can only produce on average a 70-85% purity and are massively energy intensive. It is expected that we can improve this to a 95-98% purity, reduce energy consumption by a minimum of 60% and greatly increase efficiency.