Innovative Projects Realized

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and for remediation of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. Trojan Technologies executed an initial Mitacs cluster program entitled “Steering the Innovation Process: Accelerating “Ideas to Impact” in Water Treatment”, resulting in a comprehensive research program and innovation process to advance the science of reactor development and validation for innovative technologies in water and wastewater treatment. With these new technologies and advancement in the understanding of water treatment, it is now important to apply them to the core business areas…To be continued.

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and for remediation of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. Trojan Technologies executed an initial Mitacs cluster program entitled “Steering the Innovation Process: Accelerating “Ideas to Impact” in Water Treatment”, resulting in a comprehensive research program and innovation process to advance the science of reactor development and validation for innovative technologies in water and wastewater treatment. With these new technologies and advancement in the understanding of water treatment, it is now important to apply them to the core business areas… To be continued.

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment – Year 2

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and for remediation of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. Trojan Technologies executed an initial Mitacs cluster program entitled “Steering the Innovation Process: Accelerating “Ideas to Impact” in Water Treatment”, resulting in a comprehensive research program and innovation process to advance the science of reactor development and validation for innovative technologies in water and wastewater treatment. With these new technologies and advancement in the understanding of water treatment, it is now important to apply them to the core business areas…To be continued.

Analyse de liens au sein du Mouvement Desjardins

Ce projet vise à utiliser des techniques d’analyse de réseaux afin d’extraire de l’information utile pour le mouvement des caisses populaires Desjardins. Le projet se décompose en trois stages distincts, mais basés sur des concepts similaires. Le premier projet vise à identifier des groupes de membres comportant des affinités, le second consiste à identifier des cliques de prestataires de services qui sont susceptibles de faire de la collusion afin de frauder les assurances et le troisième consiste à identifier et quantifier les affinités entre téléphonistes et membres. Dans les trois cas, nous utiliserons les informations dont dispose le mouvement, à savoir : Les données de cartes de crédits pour le premier projet, les données de réclamations aux assurances Desjardins pour le second et les données recueillies suite aux appels entre l’organisation et ses membres pour le dernier.

Recharge des eaux souterraines dans la région des Laurentides

L’objectif du projet est de comprendre la recharge des eaux souterraines dans les Laurentides. Le manque de données sur les eaux souterraines de la région ne permet pas aux acteurs de l’aménagement du territoire de procéder au développement durable de leur territoire en prenant en considération la vulnérabilité des eaux souterraines. Les résultats de cette étude permettront de quantifier le renouvellement des aquifères dans une région de plus en plus densément peuplée où les pressions anthropiques sont croissantes. Cette recherche développera des approches qui seront mises à profit pour estimer l’impact de scénarios d’utilisation du territoire sur la recharge des eaux souterraines. La compréhension de la recharge et l’instrumentation qui sera mise en place sont essentielles à la bonne gestion de la ressource en eaux souterraines par les organismes de bassins versants, dont le partenaire Mitacs, Abrinord.

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and for remediation of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. Trojan Technologies executed an initial Mitacs cluster program entitled “Steering the Innovation Process: Accelerating “Ideas to Impact” in Water Treatment”, resulting in a comprehensive research program and innovation process to advance the science of reactor development and validation for innovative technologies in water and wastewater treatment. With these new technologies and advancement in the understanding of water treatment, it is now important to apply them to the core business areas…To be continued.

Improving quality of life with right hemisphere stroke patient with neglect

The overall objective of our project is to develop a better understanding of the positive effects

of prism adaptation in patients with spatial neglect. Remarkable, long-lasting changes have

already been found using paper tests; we aim to take this one step further and test for

changes in activities that are important in every-day life. We also aim to develop a better

understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the prism adaptation procedure by using two

different adaptation techniques. By using these different techniques we can uncover whether

the positive effects of prism rehabilitation are limited solely to visually guided actions of can

generalize to perception. Understanding the effects of prism adaptation on every-day

activities, and determining the underlying mechanisms of these positive effects is incredibly

important if we are to introduce prism glasses as a rehabilitation tool. We hope that our

findings will have a large impact on a patient’s and their caregiver’s quality of life.

Integration of benchtop focused ultrasound device with a collaborative software platform for image-guided exploration and user-centred design guidelines

Focused Ultrasound (FUS) is a therapeutic modality that can concentrate non-invasively mechanical energy far from its source in just a few cubic millimeters. FUS is used, by example, to treat brain disorders such as essential tremor. At research level, very diverse approaches are being explored. From the treatment of Alzheimer Disease, brain stimulation with FUS for psychiatry disorders, to the enhancement of therapy response of chemoradiotherapy in tumors, the potential of FUS for non-invasive therapy is tremendous However, there is a critical need for pre-clinical FUS devices engineered to enhance the experience of researchers with a very diversified science background. The goal of this research is to develop and validate a systematic methodology to guide the design of FUS applications. We will work with the company FUS Instruments to integrate our image-guided software suite, which is called Proteus, with their benchtop FUS small animal system (RK50). We will apply user-centric design guidelines, with scientists with a non-ultrasound physics background in the center of the process, to improve the researcher interface of the RK50 system. To be continued.

Measured and perceived differences between writing on digital and analog surfaces

Digital devices have the potential to play a positive role in the classroom. For example, longhand note-taking has been shown help learners better remember what they’ve learned than typing notes on a keyboard. With younger generations more accustomed to using digital devices in their everyday lives, it is important that the educational system finds a way to move digital devices into the classroom in a way that these devices can support learning. In this study, we hope to gain a better understanding of how students are able to take notes on different digital devices, and what properties might help them improve their learning in the modern classroom.

Efficient Design and Implementation of Concatenated Error-Correction Coding for High-Throughput Fiber-Optic Links

The project targets design and implementation of error-correction codes for high-throughput fiber-optic communication links. We focus on the error-correction encoding at the transmitter side as well as decoding at the receiver side considering the simplicity of implementation and low power consumption at both transmitter and receiver.

Développement d’une nouvelle turbine hydroélectrique permettant le passage des poiss

Le but de ce projet consiste à développer un nouveau modèle de turbine hydroélectrique qui permette le passage des poissons tout en offrant de bonnes performances. L’hydroélectricité est une source d’énergie qui est fiable, quasiment neutre en carbone, et peu chère sur le long terme. Malgré cela, les barrages ont généralement aussi des impacts négatifs sur l’environnement dans lequel ils sont implantés. Les turbines présentent notamment des risques de blessures et de mort pour les poissons qui les traversent. Dans le cadre d’un contrat de modernisation de turbine, ce projet a pour but de rendre le passage des poissons moins dangereux, et d’ainsi réduire l’impact environnemental du barrage.

Adversarial Examples and Uncertainty

While neural networks can classify images with very high accuracy, it was shown in 2013 (original paper by Szegedy et al) that it is also possible to make very small perturbation to an image so that the network misclassifies it (e.g. so that a panda is classified as an airplane). Many variations of this effect have subsequently been discovered and studied, but the mechanisms underlying this are still not well-understood. In this project, we plan to look at the system’s underlying uncertainties and certainties that might contribute to this effect. For example, even though the system might predict that the panda is an airplane with probability of 98%, is there some other way in which the system is in fact uncertain about this? How might we be able to quantify this?