Projects Funded by Carbon Solutions

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Carbon Solutions is currently funding 15 projects that connect Western researchers with industry, government, and community organizations to reduce carbon emissions in Canada and beyond.

Current Funded Projects

Towards Net-Zero: Assessing and Improving the Carbon Reduction Potential of Circular Clusters

Jury Gualandris

Scaling up nature-based climate solutions for carbon emissions though an Indigenous- and community-led Conservation Impact Bond

Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Production of renewable jet fuel from waste

Naomi Klinghoffer

Microalgae based Eco-plastic

Amarjeet Bassi

An integrated solar-powered heat pump and modular thermal storage system to offset natural gas usage for heating applications

Anthony Straatman, Kamran Siddiqui, Joshua Pearce, Carol Hunsberger

Development of a farm-size biomass carbonizer for biocarbon production and carbon sequestration

Franco Berruti, Hugh Henry

Converting coker unit off-gas into hydrogen and carbon nanomaterials

Michael Boutilier, Cedric Briens

Plasma-assisted CO2 to methanol at ambient conditions

Ying Zheng

Circularizing Carbon Solutions in the Municipal Sector: Replacing Methanol with Biodegradable (Compostable) Plastics as Carbon Source for Biological Nutrient Removal from Wastewater

Domenico Santoro, Lars Rehmann

Agrotunnel Agrivoltaics Hybrid for Sustainable Food

Joshua Pearce

High-performance Na-S Batteries for Large-scale Grid Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles

Yang Zhao

Digital Twins with Machine Learning for a Sustainable Future

Katarina Grolinger, Miriam Capretz, Girma Bitsuamlak

Nature-based carbon solutions: Carbon sequestration through land conservancies

Paul Mensink

Drone based Multispectral Imager for Monitoring Methane emissions from Landfills

Jayshri Sabarinathan, Anwar Haque

Soil Biodiversity as Nature-based Solutions to Promote Boreal Forest and Peatland Carbon Storage

Zoë Lindo