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

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Canada is a leading energy-producing country, and its energy sector plays a critical role in its economy. The**production, conversion, and use of energy has environmental impacts including increases in atmospheric**concentrations of greenhouse gases, fresh water consumption, and land use disturbances. Canada's large energy**sector must deal with these issues. The focus of the research program is to identify pathways to low carbon**energy systems based on cost, life cycle environmental impacts, and resource availability. While there has been**considerable 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 energy**and the environment. The Industrial Research Chair program is aimed at assessing technologies of energy**production, conversion, and use at the systems level, along with associated environmental impacts through**development of fundamental science based models. This aims at developing Canada's fundamental research**capacity 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 contributing**towards Canada's effort in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.