Providing vibroacoustic solutions for assessing pipeline conditions
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, KenWave Solutions is transforming infrastructure management with its cutting-edge Dynamic Response Imaging™ (DRI™) technology. Around the world, the infrastructure that delivers municipal water is ageing. The pipeline walls are thinning and cracking. They’re losing stiffness and developing air pockets. That creates the risk of leaks, wasting precious water and all the money spent to treat it. Or worse, it can cause catastrophic bursts that shut down roads, cut off [...]
Using machine learning to make flood forecasts less wishy-washy
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Aquanty is making real-time flood forecasting a reality by adding machine learning to its HydroGeoSphere platform. As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, flood forecasting is becoming increasingly important. But creating accurate predictions has never been easy, and shifting precipitation patterns only add to the challenge. Aquanty knows all about the issues. In 2012, the Waterloo-based company was launched to commercialize HydroGeoSphere, a hydrologic simulation [...]
Going big: EKS takes tailings dewatering to the next level
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. is revolutionizing tailings management within the mining industry through its pioneering dewatering technology. Tailings are a massive challenge for the mining industry. Decades are required for suspended particles to settle and form a slurry, preventing water reuse. Companies are forced to construct enormous tailings storage facilities (TSF) or to dewater the slurry in the processing plant — an expensive undertaking. ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. (EKS) has developed [...]