UNBC lands grant to study bioenergy emissions

PrinceGeorgeCitizen.com (Canada)
Written by Gordon Hoekstra
Citizen staff
Wednesday, 04 November 2009

UNBC researchers have been awarded nearly $250,000 in federal and provincial funding to apply technology already being developed at the university to study air pollution emissions from bioenergy equipment.

The funding will be used to develop a terahertz spectrometer, which will be used initially to analyze gases and particles emitted by a small bioenergy plant that heats UNBC's I.K. Barber Enhanced Forest Laboratory. Later, the technology will be used to study emissions from a much larger $14.8-million bioenergy plant that is currently under construction at the university.

"Rapid advances are driving the development of new applications at an astonishing rate," said UNBC physicist Matt Reid. "We are particularly excited to be developing cutting edge terahertz research to solve problems of significance to the local community."

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