We deliver advanced technology to Canada's energy and mining sectors by transforming scientific discoveries into applications for industry. Our research and technology development brings the latest innovations in clean energy, advanced mining technologies and environmental remediation to Canadian industry.
Services and information
Facilities
Bioenergy research facilities
- Advanced sensors and diagnostic equipment
- Bioengineering and fuel cell laboratories
- Biorefining pilot plants
- Combustion, engine and gas turbine research laboratories and test cells
- Laboratory and pilot scale autoclaves
- Material and gas characterization and analysis
- Modeling hardware and software
Energy storage research facilities
- 360o video: Hydrogen Laboratory
- A wide range of characterization equipment (e.g. XRD, TEM, SEM, XPS, TGA, XRF, NMR)
- Battery performance and safety evaluation research facility
- Cluster computing resources
- Dry room
- Electrode fabrication facilities
- Energy storage component cyclers
- Energy storage systems lab
- Fire and containment facilities
- Materials synthesis labs
- Microgrid testing and training facility
- Testing facilities
- Thermal chambers
Mining storage research facilities
- Acid rock drainage kinetics testing facilities
- Effluent treatment facilities
- Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser-ultrasonic labs
- Powerful materials characterization and microscopy centres, including Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD)
- Specialized modeling hardware and software
- Wear, corrosion and environmental testers and simulators
Research programs
Technical and advisory services
- Electrochemical devices
- Advanced materials
- Chemical process engineering
- Environmental monitoring and remediation
- Intelligent sensing and diagnostics
- Biogas/waste-to-energy
Industrial R&D groups
Why work with us
Our experts work along the entire technology readiness scale, from fundamental research, to technology development and scale-up, to prototyping and field testing. We can leverage our relationships within the NRC and with our R&D collaborators to create both outstanding science and impactful industry-relevant solutions.
We serve and collaborate with a wide range of organizations from all parts of the energy, mining and environment sectors, including:
- Small and medium sized enterprises
- Large companies, including multinationals
- Research organizations
- Universities and colleges
- Government departments, including federal, provincial/territorial, municipal
The NRC's business models are flexible and depend on the nature of each specific project/initiative:
- Specialized technical services, capitalizing on our unique facilities and expertise.
- Customized research services to address your specific technical challenges
- Collaborative research projects
- Multi-client initiatives, where several organizations have common objectives
- Licensing of NRC-developed technology
Contact us
Dann Chow, Business Advisor
Telephone: 604-221-3157
Email: Dann.Chow@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Our experts
Related links
Research publications
- Mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of oil sands minerals based on tunable quantum cascade lasers
- Canadian energy storage report: 2017 case study for the Alberta market
- Characterization of size and aggregation for cellulose nanocrystal dispersions separated by asymmetrical-flow field-flow fractionation
- Lithium battery transport: assessment of the environmental conditions for lithium batteries shipping
- A wet packed-bed scrubber for removing tar from biomass producer gas