We contribute to numerous national and international collaborative projects, providing our expertise in Engineering and the ability to build specific project teams by integrating the necessary talents, both for ongoing projects and the future development of ixsane.
We invest in innovation to accelerate the circular economy, enhance territorial resilience in the face of climate challenges, address energy issues, and manage or reduce contamination in natural environments.
In addition to the engineering services offered by the Engineering Department, we propose short, medium, or long-term collaborations on innovative topics involving expert collaboration with scientific experts and public or private research institutions, both within France and internationally.
Leveraging our scientific teams and a network of national and European partners, we tailor partnerships to realize projects aimed at developing new products, services, or technologies to meet the future challenges of our clients and society.
Integrating environmental challenges into business strategies generates significant new needs.
To accelerate our clients' innovation, we mobilize our teams of Doctors, Engineers, and necessary scientific partners to carry out and coordinate tailored R&D services to address their challenges:
· Scientific literature study
· Statistical analysis of existing data and AI solutions
· Technical, economic, and societal feasibility studies
· Design of pilot units for operational testing
· Laboratory demonstrations at full scale (1/1 scale)
· DKEAU: Operational R&D project for improving the management of the sanitation network of the Urban Community of Dunkirk (59). Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks - Implementation of an information and alert system, improving knowledge of local actors' roles and surface flow.
· SOCRATIC Demonstrator: Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks aimed at protecting the natural environment - Valenciennes Agglomeration (59)
· EMILIE: Realization of an industrial-scale proof-of-concept model to test and validate a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system for sanitation networks
· CARDIO: Design of a Regulated Dynamic and Intelligent Sanitation in Ostrevent
· SIMI-BOT: Automated measurement device for the acquisition, transfer, processing, and management of sewer data
· COMETA: Design of Tools and methods dedicated to Alternative Techniques
· SEDIVALOR: Feasibility study for the treatment and valorization of contaminated river sediments
· SURICATES: Sediment Uses as Resources in Circular And Territorial Economies – Construction and testing of a sediment dehydration pilot
· NWE-REGENERATIS: Developing Circular Economy from metallurgical industry brownfields. Methodology, decision support tools based on AI, synthesis of catalysts from biomass from metal-contaminated sites.
· ENCETRE: Unconventional Energy and Water Treatment - Valorization of organic waste from animal sources.
· MANAGER: Innovative solutions for the treatment of mine drainage water
· SERVEAU-SANECITY: Development of a software package for Simulation, Evaluation, and Reduction of Energy Vulnerability in Urban Developments
Sediment Uses as Resources In Circular And Territorial EconomieS (SURICATES)
Context and Project objective:
Flood and erosion risk management actions requires large amount of raw material while sediment manager have to deal with large excess of sediment.
SURICATES project aims to make ambitious sediment reuse projects possible in Europe for flood and erosion protection.
To do this, new solutions to increase fine sediment reuse in coastal & erosion protection markets will be implemented and experimented for roll-out:
· Sediment reallocation within the system
· Bio-engineering with sediment
· Sediment as a pozzolanic material to strength sediment
· Sediment reuse in concrete
· Dike or Bund with made with sediment
Territorial global cost and benefits optimisation focused tested in South or Ireland and Britany (France).
ixsane contributions
· Setting up a pilot equipment to speed up sediment dehydration to easy operational sediment reuse
· Evaluation of economic/environmental direct and indirect local costs and benefits of sediment reuse projects
· Sediment reuse demonstration & Environmental monitoring
· WP leader
Partnership:
· Irland: MTU (ex CIT), UCC
· United Kingdom: UoS, Scottish Canals,
· France: ULille, BRGM, IMT Lille Douai, Armines, ixsane, TEAM2, EPTB Rance Frémur
· Netherlands: Port of Rotterdam, Deltares
Project Budget
SURICATES Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
· Project Total Budget: 8,01M€
· EU Funding: 4,8M€
Start of the project: 2017
End of the project: 2023
For more informations :
https://vb.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/suricates-sediment-uses-as-resources-in-circular-and-territorial-
economies/#tab-1
REGENERATIon of past metallurgical Sites and deposits through innovative circularity for raw materials
Context and Project objective:
Metal working industry represents 13 % of Potential Contaminated Sites (PCS) in the EU. While recent metallic waste streams are usually treated, older waste (aggregated material with high ferrous metal content, scrap, other metals, white and black slags and other streams) are considered as a source of pollution, expensive to manage/eliminate.
NWE-REGENERATIS aims to transform this problem into an opportunity, as large volumes of resources can be recovered by urban-mining.
To do this, the NWE-REGENERATIS project aims to test and implement on 3 sites new methodologies and innovative technical approach for new economic models for resource recovery from former metallurgical sites and deposits.
This includes a site inventory structure adapted to the objective of material recovery and the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms as decision support, potential studies by geophysical techniques, innovative material recovery techniques uses and synthesis of catalysts from plants planted on contaminated sites.
ixsane contributions:
· Improvement of contaminated sites diagnostics methods with resource oriented investigation
· Improving soil fertility
· Production of eco-catalyst from vegetal growing on contaminated sites in partnership with JUNIA
· Artificial intelligence to strengthen decision for site management
Partnership:
Belgium : Société Publique d'Aide à la Qualité de l'Environnement (SPAQUE), Centre Technologique International de la Terre et de la Pierre (CTP), Université de Liège, OVAM, ATRASOL, DUFERCO
United Kingdom : Materials Processing Institute (MPI), Cranfield University
France : BRGM, ixsane, TEAM2, JUNIA
Germany : Technische Hochschule Köln, Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverbnd (BAV)
Project Budget :
NWE-REGENERATIS Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
· Total budget ERDF: € 4.26 million
· Total budget: € 7.10 million
Start of the project: 2019
End of the project: 2023
For more informations :
https://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/nwe-regeneratis-regeneration-of-past-metallurgical-sites-and-deposits-through-innovative-circularity-for-raw-materials/
Objective:
Operational R&D project for improving the management of the sanitation network of the Urban Community of Dunkirk (59).
ixsane main contributions
Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks – Implementation of an information and alert system, improving knowledge of local actors' roles and surface flow.
Objective:
Improvement of real-time management of the sanitation network of the Valenciennes agglomeration (59).
ixsane main contributions
Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks aimed at protecting the natural environment.
