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Giffels Associates Limited
Giffels Associates
has joined the project as the Engineering Firm of Record, and will provide project management and engineering and architectural design services.
Giffels is a member of the Ingenium Group of Companies, which has a 57 year history of industrial process engineering, design/build, architectural, business consulting, and project management services.
Giffels has extensive experience in the design and implementation of complex industrial processes from the preliminary design, through to detailed design, tendering and contract administration. The company's recent renewable energy projects include a hydrogen production, storage and refueling station at the Canadian National Exhibition site in Toronto, Ontario in partnership with Hydrogenics, a hydrogen storage and distribution and fuel cell test facility for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, biogas utilization system design, and design support for a prototype technology for the steam reformation of biosolids, paper mill waste, wood chips, coal, and municipal solid waste.Giffels has performed two independent technology validations for the Corporation Since 2001. Giffels has conducted feasibility study work for the Corporation since September of 2004, and has become a strategic partner with the Corporation.
Ingenium has a staff of over 900 architects, engineers, scientists, and technical support staff based across Canada , the United States , the Middle East, and Asia . Ingenium is one of the few service firms in the world that are certified to both the ISO 9001 Standard (Business Standard), and the ISO 14001 Environmental Standard. Ingenium has also been awarded the honour of one of Canada 's 50 Best Managed companies for three consecutive years.
Clean 16 Environmental Technologies CorporationClean 16 was established in 2002 to provide an alternative to the direct use of problematic wet and sulfur containing biogas and landfill gas streams. Clean 16 recently completed the design of a biogas to substitute natural gas system in southwestern Ontario and have designed a total of four biogas and landfill gas cleaning processes since its inception.
Clean 16 is in the midst of a three year research and development program funded by Clean 16 shareholders and the Ontario CRESTech (now Etech) organization at the University of Toronto to advance the state of the art of biogas and landfill gas cleaning and separation. Through relationships with U.S. and European equipment suppliers, Clean 16 brings the experience of hundreds of biogas and landfill gas upgrade projects. Clean 16 provides niche environmental process design services to large engineering firms and private sector clients.
The University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
The University of Toronto agreed to provide laboratory facilities and assist with research.
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry is one of the oldest and largest departments of its kind in North America . It has one of the largest chemical engineering departments, with approximately 300 undergraduate students, 170 graduate students and 30 full time professors. The University of Toronto is regularly highlighted in the media for its collaboration related to environmental technology developments, and will provide reaction and separation science, catalytic expertise, advanced engineering design software, laboratory space and resources as well as state-of-the-art analytical facilities.
