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。这个 能源的生产、转换和使用会对环境产生影响，包括大气中的 温室气体浓度、淡水消耗和土地利用干扰。加拿大的大能源 该部门必须处理这些问题。研究计划的重点是确定低碳的途径 基于成本、生命周期环境影响和资源可获得性的能源系统。虽然已经有了 对能源生产、转换和使用技术的发展进行了大量研究， 在系统层面上理解和评估能量之间的关系的工作相对较少。 和环境。工业研究教席计划旨在评估能源技术 在系统级别的生产、转换和使用，以及相关的环境影响，通过 发展基于基础科学的模型。这旨在发展加拿大的基础研究 在能源路径评估领域的能力。这项拟议的研究计划是一项及时的倡议。 该计划将培训将对加拿大劳动力做出贡献的研究人员，并将帮助做出贡献 加拿大在减少温室气体排放方面的努力。

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.