Laboratory Equipment for Validation, Optimization and Commercialization of Clean Energy Conversion and Storage Devices and Technologies

经济上可行、社会上可接受、环境友好的能源转换和储存技术对于满足加拿大和其他地区日益增长的能源需求至关重要。电化学电源，包括可充电电池、超级电容器和燃料电池，已被确定为先进、可靠的能量转换和存储应用的关键技术。可再生能源系统的特性、优化和集成是我们研究工作和活动的中心，因此，我们采用广泛的分析、实验室和现场测试和技术来系统、客观地评估清洁能源系统的性能。正是通过这些努力，我们试图了解这些系统在不同苛刻的操作条件下的行为，以进一步提高它们在不同能源领域的性能、耐用性和经济可行性。这项建议和所需的实验室设备旨在提高兰姆顿学院的清洁能源研究能力，并通过发起和开展高度协作的、行业驱动的应用研究项目，满足本地和区域中小企业的需求。购买的设备包括一个电化学能量测试站和一个动态蒸汽吸收分析仪，用于对不同清洁能源转换和存储应用中使用的各种能源系统和组件（如可充电电池、超级电容器和储热材料）进行应用研究。所要求的设备最初将由8家当地和区域公司使用，以通过现有和新的合作应用研究项目协助它们进行产品和工艺开发以及商业化活动。

Economically-viable, socially-acceptable, and environmentally-friendly energy conversion and storage technologies are essential for keeping pace with the ever-growing need for energy in Canada and elsewhere. Electrochemical power sources, including rechargeable batteries, ultra-capacitors, and fuel cells, have been identified as critical enabling technologies for advanced, reliable energy conversion and storage applications.Renewable energy system characterization, optimization, and integration are at the center of our research efforts and activities and, as such, we employ a wide array of analytical, laboratory and field tests and techniques to systematically and objectively evaluate the performance of clean energy systems. It is through these efforts that we try to understand the behavior of such systems under different, demanding operating conditions to further improve their performance, durability and economic feasibility in diverse energy fields. This proposal and the requested laboratory equipment aim at enhancing Lambton College's Clean Energy Research capacity and capability to meet the needs of local and regional SMEs by initiating and conducting highly collaborative, industry-driven applied research projects. The equipment to be purchased include an electrochemical energy test station and a dynamic vapour sorption analyzer to conduct applied research on a wide range of energy systems and components used in different clean energy conversion and storage applications such as rechargeable batteries, supercapacitors, and thermal storage materials.The requested equipment will be initially utilized by eight (8) local and regional companies to assist them with their product and process development and commercialization activities through existing and new collaborative applied research projects.