CANMET Energy Technology Centre - Ottawa
CANMET, the Canadian Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, is a leading Canadian R&D organization with world-class expertise in a variety of areas related to minerals, metals and energy.
Much of CANMET Energy's R, D&D is done in partnership with industry, provincial governments, other federal departments, universities and international agencies. These activities cover a broad range of in-house research, collaborative R&D and contracting-in on a cost-shared, task-shared or cost recovery basis.
CANMET Energy provides technical advice, planning guidance and brokering services to clients that include vehicle manufacturers, fuel producers, and representatives of the bioenergy, small-hydro, and solar-energy industries.
Three Major Areas of the Program
1) Renewable Energy Technologies
This program aims at supporting industry R&D leading to new technologies, removing technical and institutional barriers, facilitating the formation of R&D consortia, and helping industry access key markets.
The four key sub-elements of the program are:
Bioenergy: including all matter derived directly or indirectly from forests, farmlands, industrial and municipal waste, and peat; small hydro: includes small-scale and low-head hydro; active solar: ranging from residential pool-heating collectors and domestic hot water systems to solar preheating ventilation air systems; wind; and photovoltaics
2) Transportation Energy Technology
The main focus of the program is end-use technologies, and its chief strategic directions include promotion and development of technologies, removing attitudinal and institutional barriers and providing technical advances. The key program elements are:
Gaseous fuels (propane and natural gas); oxygenated Fuels (Alcohols); hydrogen; fuel Cells; electric; vehicles and batteries; ATF field trials
CANMET offers opportunities in many current fields of interest, including R&D consortia, personnel interchanges, simulation software and modelling, technical services, technical assessments and field trials, standards, and technology transfer.
3. Energy efficiency:
Building systems and indoor environment; energy performance simulation software for buildings; combustion efficiency and emissions for various fuels, including biomass; expert systems, modelling, artificial intelligence; passive solar/window R&D; R&D in heat management, including refrigeration, building energy management systems and heat pumping technologies; natural gas storage and combustion; integrated energy use/ district heating and cooling; demonstration of state-of-the-art, energy efficient, environmentally friendly residential and commercial building technologies; energy efficiency in steel-making; drying and dewatering; strategic analysis of energy efficiency opportunities in the industrial sector; implementation of leading-edge, clean and energy efficient heating and cooling technologies
Company Details
Company Information
Madgy Habib
Title:
Chief Operating Officer
Telephone:
(613) 995-6392
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(613) 995-7868
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Roy Prokopuk
Title:
Manager
Telephone:
(613) 996-8693
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(613) 995-9584
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Sylvain Coulombe
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
Telephone:
(613) 995-5750
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(613) 995-9728
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John Marrone
Title:
Chairman
Area of Responsibility:
Electronic Data Interchange
Telephone:
(613) 996-8201
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(613) 995-9584
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Products
Environmental Products And Services
Combustion Research And Retrofit Services.
CANMET Energy Technology Centre's laboratory facilities are located at Bells Corners near Ottawa. They provide world class R&D services and house unique facilities in the areas of fuel reactivity; combustion performance evaluation; and analysis for combustion gases (e.g., CO2 and O2) and regulated emissions (e.g., NOx, SOx and particulates).
The laboratory houses a Vertical Pulverized Fuel Combustor. The vertical combustor is designed for injecting solid, liquid or gas fuels, air, flue gas, sorbent and reactivated flue gas-all at various stages of the combustion process. A variety of post-combustion flue gas clean up strategies can also be tested. By 1996, a pilot-scale bubbling fluidized-bed combustor will also be built. It will be used to study NO2 formation and to generate combustion performance data on various coals, including coal washy rejects.
The Federal Industrial Boiler Program (FIBP) provides technical and management services to federally owned heating and cooling plants on a fee-for-service basis. The FIBP ensures that energy-efficient and low-NOx combustion technologies are considered when existing federal facilities need replacements or modifications. These services cover a wide range of areas, including cogeneration, retrofit surveys, non-destructive examination and life-cycle costing analysis.
The FIBP is moving into new areas of service (boiler safety inspection, boiler tune-ups, and HVAC) and broadening its client base to include provincial, municipal and international governments.
Cost-shared In-house And Contracted-out Research Programs
CANMET provides R&D and R&D support to industrial clients to promote energy efficiency and decrease industrial emissions, particularly gaseous emissions contributing to climate change.
The in-house component of CANMET's Industrial Energy Efficiency Program focuses on combustion (see PROBLEM(S)/APPLIED RESEARCH: Combustion efficiency and emissions) and heat management. CANMET can help industrial partners to develop, acquire or even commercialize their heat management technologies.
CANMET also manages the Industrial Energy Research and Development (IERD) Program. By providing strategic technology analysis and cost-shared support for research and technology transfer, this program allows industry to capitalize on energy efficiency opportunities.
Energy Efficiency And Alternative Fuel Vehicle Technologies
The transportation sector is the leading contributor to urban air pollution and a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (25% of CO2). Emissions can be reduced through increased vehicle and transportation system efficiencies and the use of cleaner-burning, alternative fuels. Areas of interest include natural gas, propane, methanol, ethanol, electric and hybrid vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cells. Alternative-fuel vehicles, especially in urban areas, offer the greatest opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and smog-forming, low-level ozone.
Through its in-house and contract-out programs, CANMET works in partnership with its clients to develop and promote alternative-fuel substitution and efficiency. Areas of expertise include alternative-fuel engines, vehicles, components, advanced batteries, fuel cells, fuels (propane, natural gas, hydrogen, ethanol, and methanol), compressors and associated hardware for fuelling stations, oxygenates for reformulated fuels, regenerative breaking, advanced batteries, flywheel energy storage systems, refuelling station design and construction, and health and safety. Along with R&D, CANMET provides consulting services in research, pliancy development, standards and regulations to the transportation industry and governments.
Renewable Energy Technologies: Solar, Wind, Small Hydro, Photovoltaics
Small hydro-electric turbines, photovoltaics and wind turbines are being used in Canada in rural and remote areas to generate electricity. Photovoltaics have been particularly successful in communication systems and beacons in remote and difficult-to-access locations. CANMET's PV for the North program focuses on the development and demonstration of new PV technologies for severe climates and the transfer of these technologies to northern communities. As well, CANMET has helped to develop windfarms and small-hydro dams for use in rural or remote areas.
Solar collectors are being used to displace electricity for the pre-heating of air in industrial and commercial buildings and for heating water in domestic and industrial applications.
CANMET is committed to advancing the development, reliability and commercialization of renewable energy technologies that are environmentally sustainable and show potential for economic viability. Its support is mainly in the form of cost-shared R&D. CANMET also provides consulting services.
Production Of Biofuels, Chemicals, Electricity And Heat From Biomass
Bioenergy is defined as energy derived from biomass. This includes all matter derived directly or indirectly from forests, farmlands, industrial and municipal waste, and peat. CANMET conducts R&D to advance the development and commercialization of biomass-derived fuels and chemicals that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable. Activities carried out address resource assessment, material handling and preparation, and direct combustion, as well as thermochemical and biochemical conversion processes.
Two current areas of interest are the combustion of wood waste and pulping liquor to provide process heat in the forest products industry and the combustion of wood for space heating in the residential sector.
CANMET's first-class facilities and expertise are much used by Canadian industry, which is recognized as a world leader in bioenergy technology development. New technologies for enzymatic hydrolysis, rapid thermal pyrolysis and advanced combustion techniques are under development.
CANMET also provides compliancy input, advice to other government departments, and assistance in developing standards of performance and safety for Canadian bioenergy appliances.
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