From Waste to Clean Food

为全球饥饿人口提供饮用水和清洁食品是当前各国的首要任务和艰巨挑战。这些挑战的出现是由于全球气候模式的急剧变化、灾难性的人为环境污染以及快速增长的世界人口（到2030年将超过85亿）共同造成的。一个很有前景的解决方案是在封闭的温室（CGs）中种植我们的食品和药品，以实现全年最佳和可靠的植物生长。据估计，全球生产的能源中有60%转化为废热（<100°C），该研究计划旨在开发和测试配备废热驱动技术的下一代温室气体发生器，以在任何气候条件下可持续地生产清洁食品和淡水。学院大学创新理念（CU-I2I）项目结合了西蒙弗雷泽大学（SFU）替代能源转换实验室（LAEC）的专业知识和基础设施，以及昆特兰理工大学（KPU）的园艺学院项目和可持续园艺研究所与工业合作伙伴：1)Argus控制系统，温室自动化和控制的先驱公司；ii) BC省温室种植者协会；iii) Nexus Biofuel，一家BC省的生物燃料工厂公司，能够将农场和城市废物转化为高质量的燃料和热量。该项目涵盖了一系列新颖的清洁技术，对种植作物、提供气候控制和淡水至关重要，为大众市场和全球接受二氧化碳铺平了道路。“从废物到清洁食品”项目将加强学院、大学和工业界之间的研究联系，并加速可持续温室气体所需技术的开发和商业化。它与CU-I2I的目标非常一致，并具有巨大的知识产权开发潜力。加拿大温室种植者和清洁技术公司将进一步受益于HQP的培训，他们在清洁能源和水系统、温室气候控制和新种植系统方面的技能需求量很大。

Providing potable water and clean food to feed the hungry planet are now priorities and daunting challenges forevery country. These challenges have arisen due to the combination of dramatic global weather pattern change,disastrous man-made environmental pollution, and a rapidly growing world population, that is to surpass 8.5Billion in 2030. One promising solution is growing our food and medicine in an engineered environment inclosed greenhouses (CGs) for optimum and reliable plant growth year-round. With an estimated 60% of theenergy produced globally converted to waste-heat (<100°C), this research program aims to develop and test thenext-generation of CGs, equipped with waste-heat driven technologies, to produce clean food and fresh waterunder any climatic conditions sustainably.The College University Idea to Innovation (CU-I2I) program combines the expertise and infrastructure of theLaboratory for Alternative Energy Conversion (LAEC) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the horticulturecollege programs and Institute for Sustainable Horticulture of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) withindustrial partners: i) Argus Control Systems, a pioneer company in automation and control of greenhouses; ii)the BC Greenhouse Growers' Association; and iii) Nexus Biofuel, a BC biofuel plant company capable ofconverting farm and municipality waste into high-quality fuel and heat. This program covers an array of novelkey clean technologies and is crucial for growing crops and providing climate control and fresh water, pavingthe road for the mass market and global acceptance of CGs.From Waste to Clean Food will strengthen the research links between college, university, and industry, aswell as accelerating the development and commercialization of the needed technologies for sustainable CGs. Itis well aligned with the CU-I2I objectives and has significant potential for IP development. Canadiangreenhouse growers and clean tech companies will further benefit from the training of HQP with skills highlyin demand in clean energy and water systems, greenhouse climate control and new cropping systems.