Integrated systems Canada

The impact of Ice Storm 98 can clearly be seen by realizing that the number of customer interruptions and the customer hours of interruption for all of Canada in 1997 were 24,280,244 and 38,130,783, respectively. The ice storm alone resulted in 12,332,950 customer interruptions and 282,576,829 customer hours of interruption in the utilities affected. Removing the ice storm incidents from the 1998 Canada-wide data results in a SAIFI of 2.46 and a SAIDI of 3.40. The lOR is 99.9612 percent. Ice Storm 98 had only a relatively moderate effect on SAIFI but a dominant effect on the customer hours of interruption and the SAIDI statistic due to the extremely long storm duration and the required restoration period. It is important to realize that the bulk transmission system retained its integrity according to NERC criteria, and the impact of the ice storm on Ontario Hydro facilities did not propagate into neighboring interconnected utilities. 

The Hydrogen Research Institute in Canada has developed and tested a stand-alone renewable energy system composed of a 10 kW wind turbine, a 1 kWpeak photovoltaic array, a 5 kW alkaline electrolyzer, and a 5 kW PEM fuel cell. The components of the system are electrically integrated on a 48 V DC bus [50]. 

Canada has a long history of hydrogen and fuel cell demonstrations. In 1993, the world s first fuel cell bus was displayed and in 1996, a second generation bus was demonstrated. With the success of these first fuel cell buses, a bus fleet demonstration was launched in 1997 which integrated numerous HFC technologies and illustrated that fuel cells and ancillary components could function as a whole system. Highlights include ... 

In Canada, routine monitoring of drug residues in edible animal tissues is an integral part of the Canadian federal meat inspection system of the Food Production and Inspection Branch, Federal Department of Agriculture and AgriFood. Monitoring for antibiotic residues in cultured fish is the responsibility of the Inspection Service Branch, Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 

The proposed hazard assessment scheme (HAS) used in Colombia is a ranking system where toxicity data obtained from the application of a test battery enables one to determine the degree of toxicity of liquid samples on a relative basis. Test battery results are then integrated into the Potential Ecotoxic Effects Probe (PEEP) index formula developed by Environment Canada for the comparison of wastewaters (Costan et al., 1993). This index can be applied to evaluate the potential toxicity of industrial and municipal wastewaters, and to assess the effectiveness of toxicity abatement measures for effluents. This procedure is easy to apply and can be used with different batteries of tests (see Chapter 1 of this volume). 

Cheng, S.B., Skinner, C.D., Harrison, D.J., Integrated serial dilution on a microchip for immunoassay sample treatment and flow injection analysis. Micro Total Analysis Systems 98, Proceedings pTAS 98 Workshop, Banff, Canada, 13-16 Oct. 1998, 157-160. 

Searle, P Hochlowski, J. High Throughput Purification of Parallel Synthesis Samples An Integrated Preparative-LC/MS System with Quantitation by Chemiluminescent Nitrogen Detection, presented at The HPLC 2002, Montreal, Canada, June, 2002. 

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