NSERC/Cenovus/Alberta Innovates Associate Industrial Research Chair in Energy and Environmental Systems Engineering

加拿大是一个主要的能源生产国，其能源部门在其经济中起着至关重要的作用。能源的生产、转化和使用对环境有影响，包括大气中温室气体浓度的增加、淡水消耗和土地利用的干扰。加拿大庞大的能源部门必须解决这些问题。该研究计划的重点是根据成本、生命周期环境影响和资源可用性确定通往低碳能源系统的途径。虽然对能源的生产、转换和使用技术的发展进行了大量研究，但在系统层面上了解和评价能源与环境之间关系的研究相对较少。工业研究主席项目旨在通过开发基于基础科学的模型，评估系统层面的能源生产、转换和使用技术，以及相关的环境影响。其目的是发展加拿大在能源途径评估领域的基础研究能力。这个提议的研究计划是一个及时的倡议。该项目将培养对加拿大劳动力有贡献的研究人员，并将有助于加拿大在减少温室气体排放方面做出贡献。

Canada is a leading energy-producing country, and its energy sector plays a critical role in its economy. Theproduction, conversion, and use of energy has environmental impacts including increases in atmosphericconcentrations of greenhouse gases, fresh water consumption, and land use disturbances. Canada's large energysector must deal with these issues. The focus of the research program is to identify pathways to low carbonenergy systems based on cost, life cycle environmental impacts, and resource availability. While there has beenconsiderable research on the development of technologies for the production, conversion, and use of energy,relatively little has been done at the systems level to understand and evaluate the relationship between energyand the environment. The Industrial Research Chair program is aimed at assessing technologies of energyproduction, conversion, and use at the systems level, along with associated environmental impacts throughdevelopment of fundamental science based models. This aims at developing Canada's fundamental researchcapacity in the area of assessment of energy pathways. This proposed research program is a timely initiative.The program will train researchers who would contribute to Canadian workforce and will help in contributingtowards Canada's effort in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.