Completed Projects

• Market Assessment and Feasibility for Cryogenically Fresh Frozen Wild Blueberries.
• Creation of Machine Parts Hierarchy Trees for Determination of Customs Import Classification Codes.
• Business Plan for a Liquid Nitrogen Based Wild Blueberry Freezing Facility.
• Expert Advisor in a Wild Blueberry Field Damage Lawsuit Involving the Application of Pronone.
• Design of a Multi-station Feed Wagon for Dairy Cattle Feeding Research.
• Summary Technical Review of Steam Explosion Technology for use in a Bio-refinery.
• Preparation of a Land Exchange Proposal between the Government of Nova Scotia and a Private Company.
• Market Study for a Soccer Ball Kicking System for Training Players.
• Prototype Design of a Soccer Ball Kicking System for Training Players.
• Expert Advisor in a Wild Blueberry Field Damage Lawsuit Involving the Application of PrononeTM.
• Development of a Strategic Plan for the Growth of a University Engineering Department.
• Evaluation of the Productivity and Cost Efficiency of Transplanting, Shipping, Pot Filling, and Sticking Lines for Commercial Production of Annual/Perennial Flowers.
• Evaluation of the Productivity and Cost Efficiency of Field Trim/Grind Operation for the Production of Commercial Own-Root Roses.
• Evaluation of the Productivity and Cost Efficiency of De-eyeing Rose Stems for Commercial Production.
• Design and Field Testing of a Global Positioning System Based Yield Mapping System for a Wild Blueberry Harvester.
• Wild Blueberry Land Assessments and Valuations for a Natural Gas Pipeline Project.
• Damage Assessment of Foliar Applied Boron to a Wild Blueberry Crop.
• Design and Development of Data Aquisition and Control Hardware/Software for a Batch Liquid Nitrogen Freezer for Wild Blueberries.
• Study Comparing Mechanical Fluidized Bed, Blast, and Liquid Nitrogen Freezing of Wild Blueberries.
• Design and Field Performance Evaluation of the WMi Wild Blueberry Harvester.
• Technical/Economic Feasibility Analysis of a Wild Blueberry Freezing Facility.
• Study of the Effects of Freeze Processing on Wild Blueberry Quality.
• Preparation of a Farm Development Business Plan.
• Design and Development of a Pre-production Multiple Tree Delimber/Debarker.
• Evaluation of the HOAFTM Infra-red Burner in Nova Scotia Wild Blueberry Fields.
• Design and Development of Agricultural Equipment Operating Cost Analysis Software.
• Laboratory Evaluation of the Ion-selective Electrode for use in an Automated Soil Nitrate Monitoring System.
• Research and Development of a Proof-of-concept Automated Soil Nitrate Monitoring System.
• Research and Development of a Proof-of-concept, Tractor-mounted, Small-volume, Automated Soil Sampler.
• Research and Development of a Proof-of-concept Automated Laboratory System for Analysis of Soil Nitrate.
• Land Assessment for the Production of Wild Blueberries.
• Preliminary Market Analysis for an Asphalt Pavement Patching Machine.
• Development of a Training Program for Commercial Wild Blueberry Production.
• Design and Field Performance Evaluation of a Double-head, Combine-style Lowbush Blueberry Harvester.
• Development and Testing of an Electro-hydraulic Head-Speed Control System for a Lowbush Blueberry Harvester.
• Field Performance and Operating Cost Evaluations of Lowbush Blueberry Harvesters
• Design and Evaluation of Fresh Lowbush Blueberry Packing Systems.
• Trafficability Evaluation of a Queens Soil Having Tile Drains Placed at Three Different Spacings.
• Investigation of the Effects of Irrigation on the Production of Lowbush Blueberries.
• Design of an ATV-towed Field String Removal Machine for Lowbush Blueberry Fields.
• Design and Evaluation of Irrigation Systems for Lowbush Blueberries.
• Design and Construction Supervision of a Solar-heated, Gravity-fed, Campsite Shower Facility.
• Field Performance Evaluation of Disc Mower-conditioners in Atlantic Canada Conditions.
• Design of a Bulk-box Dumping Machine for a Lowbush Blueberry Canning Production Line
• Design and Construction Supervision of a Catchment Basin and Drainage System for Agricultural Access-road Erosion Abatement.
• Design and Construction Supervision of Irrigation System Pumpsites.
• Design and Construction Supervision of an Emergency Fire Pond and Dry Hydrant System for a Rural Fire Brigade.
• An Assessment of the Effects of Processing Machinery and Methods on the Quality of Lowbush Blueberries Packed in Nova Scotia for the Fresh Market.
• Computer Simulation of a Buried Air Duct Heat Exchanger for Energy Conservation in a Greenhouse.
• Study of the Heat Transfer Coefficients for Air Flow in Plastic Corrugated Drainage Tubes.
• Study of the Heating and Drying Aspects of Grain Immersed in a Hot Particulate Medium.
• Conceptual Design of a Cabbage Conveying and Shredding System for Cole Slaw Production.
• Sulfur Dioxide Monitoring of An Oil Refinery's Stack Emissions.
• Asbestos Removal Supervision and Re-entry Air Sampling for a Dartmouth High School.
• Market Study for a Hardwood Manufacturing Facility.
• Market Study for Bulk Lubricating Oil Distribution Venture.
• Market Study for a Coal Briquette Manufacturing Facility.
• Design and Evaluation of a Fresh Fiddlehead Cleaning and Anti-oxidant System.
• Field Performance and Operating Cost Evaluation of Eight Straw Spreaders for use on Blueberry Fields.
• Development of an Ammonia Spill and Counter-measures Plan for a Lowbush Blueberry Freezing Facility.
• Design of an Automatic Circle-hook Baiter used for Long Line Fishing.
• Production - Economic Analysis of a Central Hay Compaction Facility.
• Pollution Sampling of a Pulp and Paper Waste-water Lagoon.
• Technical - Economic Feasibility of a Flail De-barker Chipper.
• Technical Feasibility of a Dug Well Liner System.
• Study of the Effect of Head-speed-ground-speed Ratio on the Picking Effectiveness of a Lowbush Blueberry Harvester.
• Silo Unloader Cable Breakage Accident Investigation.
• Design of an Agricultural Spray Nozzle Performance Evaluation System.
• Design and Evaluation of Methods for the Measurement of Bunker Silage Density.
• Performance Evaluation of Integrated Solar Collector Designs for On-farm Use.
• Design of Agricultural Soil Erosion Abatement Systems.
• Productivity and Operating Cost Analysis of Fresh Wild Blueberry Packing Systems.
• Productivity and Operating Cost Analysis of Spraying Equipment in Wild Blueberry Fields.