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发挥着至关重要的作用。能源的生产、转化和使用会对环境产生影响，包括大气中温室气体浓度的增加、淡水消耗和土地利用干扰。加拿大的大型能源部门必须处理这些问题。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的研究，但在系统一级对能源与环境之间的关系的理解和评价却相对较少。工业研究教席计划的目的是评估能源生产、转换和使用的技术在系统层面上，沿着相关的环境影响，通过发展基础科学为基础的模型。该项目旨在发展加拿大在能源路径评估领域的基础研究能力。这项拟议的研究计划是一项及时的举措，该计划将培训研究人员，他们将为加拿大的劳动力做出贡献，并将有助于为加拿大减少温室气体排放的努力做出贡献。

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.