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Record W4409561801 · doi:10.1002/ese3.2092

A Comprehensive Study on Canada's Green Hydrogen Production Potential Using Biomass and Waste Resources

2025· article· en· W4409561801 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueEnergy Science & Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicHybrid Renewable Energy Systems
Canadian institutionsOntario Tech University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiomass (ecology)Hydrogen productionProduction (economics)Environmental scienceWaste managementHydrogenEngineeringChemistryEcologyBiologyEconomics

Abstract

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ABSTRACT The present study examines the potential of green hydrogen production in Canada using biomass and waste resources. Considered biomass sources include urban waste, animal byproducts, forestry products and residue, crop residue, and purpose‐grown energy crops. The calculations and discussion of the potential of each province are conducted to assess the feasibility of a hydrogen economy. Further studies and projections of the annual biomass potential for various regions are also conducted using government data gathered from ministerial sources. The generation of electricity is achieved by employing gasification and incineration systems, which result in the production of hydrogen as the end product. This comprehensive work further provides the hydrogen maps for each province in Canada, focusing on the biomass energy potential by utilizing gasification and incineration methodologies. The results of this study indicate that Canada has the potential to produce around 2.66 Mt per year of green hydrogen by utilizing its existing biomass resources. According to the data, the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Québec exhibit the greatest potential for green hydrogen production with 518.46, 449.33, 447.57, and 428.11 kt, respectively. The expected outcomes of this study are poised to provide valuable insights for policymakers in their use of renewable energy for the purpose of formulating and implementing new policies and initiatives. Additionally, these results are expected to contribute to the resolution of challenges associated with fossil fuel dependency. This may be examined within the framework of the prevailing policies implemented by policymakers to meet the energy demands.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.562
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it