SanEcoTec: Challenging North America’s water treatment paradigm
SanEcoTec, an Ottawa-based company, has developed a water treatment system that it believes can meet the myriad challenges facing North America’s water industry, using a substance similar to one found in most medicine cabinets. With support from Southern Ontario Water Consortium’s Advancing Water Technologies (AWT) program, which is funded by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), the company is moving toward commercializing the system — and perhaps a new paradigm for water treatment. SanEcoTec’s AVIVE™ process [...]
Solid solutions for Alberta’s tailings pond problems
Across the Athabasca oil sands, energy companies are wrestling with a sticky question: what to do with the tailings they produce. The byproduct of mining bitumen, tailings are a mixture of water, fine clay particles and other suspended solids that get pumped into large ponds where they are left to settle — a process that can take decades or longer. To speed up that process, the industry has tried many different approaches. For example, adding a flocculent encourages the clay [...]
Women making waves in water tech
From tackling green algae blooms in Lake Erie to providing safe water to communities in sub-Saharan Africa, water technology innovators in Southern Ontario are making all kinds of achievements possible. And in many cases, the driving force behind these advances is female. We’d like to introduce you to a few of these wave-making women. Leading the (re)charge Christine Haas, President, Renix Inc. While working on a contract for the VP of research at Western University, Christine Haas [...]