ABOUT BPRC
The facility is 9,000 square feet, includes two laboratories, office space for 15 people, an outdoor growing space and a three-bay greenhouse that features computer-controlled humidity, temperature and lighting. The Centre for Boreal Research is an Approved Seed Testing Facility. The facility was funded by NAIT, Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, with industry funding from Shell Canada and Penn West Petroleum.
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1457 London Road Building E, Entrance Door E2 Sarnia, ON N7S 6K4
Services offered in: English
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RESEARCH AND INNOVATION EXPERTISE
EXPERTISE
- Fermentation and Distillation
- Bioproducts, Biochemicals, Biofuels and Biomaterials
- Pharmaceutical and Natural Heatlh Products
- Cultivation, extraction and chemical analysis
- Bio Process Instrumentation and Process Control
- Food and Beverage
- Cleantech
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Fields of projects:
- Separation and Characterization of Glucose, Xylose and Oligomers from Cellulosic Biomass
- Optimizing Cannabis Terpene Isolation
- Development of New Kombuchas
- Evaluation of Sustainable Cannabis Extraction Methods
- Concurrent Alcohol Recovery and Fermentation
- Vermicomposting of Agri-Food Waste
- Detection of Bacterial Pathogens in Water
- Industrial Production of Black Soldier Fly Larvae
- Molecular Agriculture of Medicinal Herbs
TECHNOLOGY SECTORS
- Natural Resources
EQUIPMENT AND LABS
| Equipment |
|---|
| Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry |
| Dionex Ion Chromatography System |
| Gas Chromatograph (GC) with a Mass Spectrometer and Flame Ionization Detector |
| Fluorescent Microscope |
| High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) |
| Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) Analyzer for the Thermogravimetric Analyzer |
| Raman Spectrometer |
| Zeta Potential Analyzer |
| Mass Spectrometer and Internal TCD for Quantachrome Surface Area Analyzer |
| Supercritical CO2 Extractor |
| Microplate Reader |
| Real-time PCR |
| Glove Box |
| UPLC-TOF |
| GC-MS |
| GC-FID |
| HPLC-QQQ |
| UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometer |
| DNA Sequencer |
| 2 L to 32 L fermenter |
| Distillation equipment |
| Atomic force microscopy |
| Scanning electron microscopy |
| Tensile analyzer |
| Elongation analyzer |
| Particle size analyzer |
| IZOD impact tester |
| Pelletizer |
| Micro compounder |
| Twin screw extruder |
- A&L Biologicals
- Western Phytoceutica
- Lignition
- Roelands Plant Farms
- Refined Fool Brewery
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- University of Guelph
- Bioindustrial Innovation Canada