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Vision
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
To be the leading industrial research and technical solution provider to clients in the fields of fluidization and reactor engineering.
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
GLAB will be successful because of the high quality of service it provides its clients in a timely and cost-effective manner. Key business areas include:
- Fluidization
- Reactor engineering
- Clean energy
Profiles
Mission Statement
Profiles
GLAB is a team of research associates based in Vancouver, on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. The team has more than 50 years of academic experience combined with over 30 years of industry-related research experience.
Services Available
- Technical consulting in the following areas:
- Fluidization
- Reactor Engineering
- Clean Energy
- Industrial troubleshooting
- Research plan development
- Environmental impact assessments (EIA)
- Life cycle analysis (LCA)
- Techno-economic analysis (TEA)
- Proof of concept and prototype developments
- Technology development and demonstrations
- Detailed process and experimental data analysis, including mathematical modelling
- Evaluation, critique and development of corporate technology policy and strategic programs
Core Competencies
A key strength of the team at GLAB is the diverse background of the associates, bringing together industrial and academic research experience to provide a solid technical and project management team in the following areas:
- Fundamentals of fluidization and fluid bed hydrodynamics
- Process fouling analysis and mitigation
- Sensor devices and sensing techniques
- Hydrogen technologies
- Membrane gas separators and high-temperature filters
- Technology development for air emissions control, wastewater treatment and contaminated soil stabilization
- Reaction engineering
- Biomass and fossil fuel combustion, gasification and pyrolysis
- Clean energy technologies and assessment
- Spouted beds and spout-fluid beds
Research Facilities
- Bench scale fluidized bed reactors
- Circulating fluidized bed reactors
- Cold model reactors
- Pilot scale circulating fluidized bed gasifier
- Cold model bubbling and turbulent bed reactors
- Liquid fluidized beds
- Cold model three-phase fluidized beds
- Spouted and spout-fluid beds
- Instrumentation and analytical techniques (GC-MS, measurement probes, microscopy etc.)
- Pilot circulating fluidized gasifier and microwave fluidized bed pyrolyzer
Competitive Advantage
Cost-effective, on-time and on-budget project delivering its strengths and exceeding clients' expectations through:
- Technical excellence, reputation and experience
- Utilizing location, Vancouver is easy to access, and the Canadian dollar provides excellent value for money
- Cost-effective, on-time and on-budget project delivery
- Appropriate allocation of resources
- Professional reporting and presentation of project deliverables
- Industry-focused research aware of windows of opportunity
- Utilizing location, Vancouver is easy to access, and the Canadian dollar provides excellent value for money
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