Jennifer McKellar
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science
Contact information
Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (ERC) - Room 4022
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
905.721.8668 ext. 5498
Education
- PhD University of Toronto 2012
- MASc University of Toronto 2005
- BASc University of Toronto 2003
Courses taught
- ENGR 3730U Solar Energy Technologies
Research and expertise
- Research areas
- Research projects open to MASc and PhD students
- Selected professional and research experience
Tools for the techno-economic and environmental assessment of energy systems involving:
- Life cycle assessment
- Life cycle costing
- Real options analysis
- Expert elicitation
To date, work has focused on unconventional fossil fuels (e.g., oil sands by-product coke) and conventional fuels used in unconventional ways (e.g., coal for polygeneration of electricity, steam and hydrogen).
- Natural Gas for Transportation from Oil Sands Bitumen: Life Cycle GHG and Financial Implications
- Others related to the techno-economic and environmental assessment of energy systems
- Link to Graduate Studies application process and requirements
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy, University of Calgary; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 2012
Research area: Oil sands industry future greenhouse gas emissions
Supervisors: Dr. Joule Bergerson, Dr. Heather MacLean. - Air Quality Engineer-in-Training, Golder Associates, Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, 2005-2006.
Involvement
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Selected journal papers
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J., and MacLean, H.L., Predicting project environmental performance under market uncertainties: Case study of oil sands coke. Submitted to Environmental Science & Technology (June 2012).
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J., and MacLean, H.L., Life cycle-based framework for multi-sectoral energy resource use decisions: Case study of Canada’s oil sands coke. Submitted to Energy Policy (January 2012).
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., and MacLean, H.L., Replacing natural gas in Alberta’s oil sands: Trade-offs associated with alternative fossil fuels. Energy & Fuels. 24: 1687-1695 (2010).
- McKellar, J.M., Charpentier, A.D., Bergerson, J.A., and MacLean, H.L., A life cycle greenhouse gas emissions perspective on liquid fuels from unconventional Canadian and U.S. fossil sources. International Journal of Global Warming. 1: 160-178 (2009).
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Affiliations
- Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario
- Member of International Society for Industrial Ecology
- Member of Chemical Institute of Canada (Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering)
- Member of International Association for Energy Economics
- Member of Golden Key International Honour Society
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Awards
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2010-2011
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada – Postgraduate Scholarship D2, 2008-2010
- Government of Ontario/DuPont Canada Scholarship in Science and Technology, 2003-2004
- Mackay Hewer Memorial Prize, 2003
- Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Medal, 2002
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Conference Presentations
- McKellar, J.M., Sleep, S., Pacheco, D., Chan, J., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., The role of technology in reducing future oil sands industry greenhouse gas emissions. 31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference; November 4 to 7, 2012; Austin, Texas.
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J. and MacLean, H.L., Combined LCA/real options method to capture uncertainty and flexibility in resource project decisions. 62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference; October 14 to 17, 2012; Vancouver, British Columbia.
- McKellar, J., Bergerson, J., Kettunen, J. and MacLean, H., Opportunities for utilizing oil sands coke: technological, environmental and financial implications. International Society for Industrial Ecology 2011 Conference, Science, Systems, and Sustainability; June 7 to 10, 2011; Berkeley, California.
- McKellar, J., Bergerson, J. and MacLean, H., Assessing life cycle costs and benefits of oil sands coke. CYCLE 2010, From Science to Decision-Making; May 4-5, 2010; Montreal, Quebec.
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., Investigating the life cycle impacts of replacing natural gas in oil sands operations. Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies Conference & Exhibition; July 14 to 16, 2009; Calgary, Alberta.
- McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., The life cycle greenhouse gas emissions implications of power and hydrogen production for oil sands operations. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference; May 12 to 15, 2009; Hamilton, Ontario.