NRC Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology (NRC-ICPET)

(Ottawa, Ontario)

Supporting Industry – Protecting the Environment
– A Leader for Sustainable Development

With its partners, NRC-ICPET contributes to increasing the competitiveness of Canada's chemistry-intensive industries through research into innovative processes and technologies that enable sustainable development. Chemistry-intensive industries are those where chemistry is a central component of the value-added transformation of materials.

An X-ray diffraction instrument that can perform very fast analyses on polymer and other materials. Dr. Whitfield also uses this instrument for micro-diffraction, using very small samples.

NRC-ICPET's chemical science and engineering capabilities contribute significantly to NRC research, development and technology commercialization in three areas of application that are economically and socially important to Canada; while supporting environmentally responsible manufacturing within these sectors.

• Fuel Cells
• Oil Sands
• Bioproducts

The Institute's core competency focuses on multiphase reactive systems within a sustainability framework. This includes scientific and technical expertise in:

• Computer Modeling: including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), life cycle and sustainability analyses and molecular modeling
• Material Sciences: polymers, ceramics, colloids and nanostructured materials
• Process technologies: involving electrochemistry, separations, interfacial and particulate technology and combustion science