/// Module intended for the validation of the choice of suitable biomass for the treatment of a given wastewater. This unit is equipped with:
- Air diffusers
- Waste water metering pump
- pH and dissolved oxygen probes
- Temperature sensor.
/// Features
- Forthcoming
Le site NEIGE vise à contribuer à l’amélioration de l’estimation des apports en eau pendant la période hivernale grâce au perfectionnement des méthodes de mesure de la neige en milieu forestier, dans le biome boréal. Il permet d'évaluer la sous-captation horaire, bi-journalière et journalière des précipitations solides pour différents types de précipitomètres et de paravents installés à la Forêt Montmorency; de développer des équations utilisant des paramètres météorologiques usuels afin de permettre le débiaisage des données brutes de précipitation solide en fonction des appareils et des paravents utilisés; de comparer l’efficacité des appareils permettant l’estimation de l’équivalent en eau de la neige contenu dans le manteau nival; de favoriser le partage des données et des résultats entre les intervenants grâce à des activités de transfert de connaissance et des ateliers thématiques.
/// Features:
- Pumps with a capacity of 12 to 20 gallons per minute
- 50 gallon/minute recirculation pumps
- 7.5 horsepower (3500 rpm) pumps
- Spiral-wound membrane chamber (measuring 40 inches in length by 8 inches in diameter)
- Filtration capacity of 600 L per hour
- 100 to 1 000-litre tank
- Prefilters
/// Samples:
- Liquids (effluents, residual liquids, fluids, liquid waste, liquids generated by chemical processes, etc.)
- Capacity to treat liquids by micro-, ultra-, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis
/// Examples of applications:
- Separation of nanoparticles from dissolved salts in order to characterize the nanoparticle content
- Nanoparticle or other nanomaterial concentration
- Purification of industrial effluents
- Separation, concentration, and purification of molecules (organic or inorganic)
/// Other test benches available:
- Two filtration systems with 2 spiral-wound membrane chambers measuring 8 inches in diameter
- A filtration system with a spiral-wound membrane measuring 4 inches in diameter
- A filtration system with a spiral-wound membrane measuring 2 inches in diameter
The service is able to meet several needs in the animal, plant or microbial fields, including:
• Research and identification of viruses from all sources;
• Research and identification (Gram-positive or Gram-negative) and description of bacteria from all sources
• Research and identification of contaminants (eg mycoplasma) in clinical specimens or cell cultures
• Immunoelectromicroscopy with or without colloidal gold on a liquid sample (negative staining) or on cell sections (pre- or post-embedding techniques)
• Quality control of viral fractions of density gradients
• Cell morphology on thin sections
• Quantification of viruses (eg Retrovirus) using latex spheres of known concentration by negative staining.
• Quality control of biological products released to municipal sewage
• Research of Retrovirus in cells, identification and count of the proportion of infected cells (cell sections)
The pilot is continuously fed by a student housing of about 480 people and two daycare centres of about 90 people each. From the sewer system, the wastewater is pumped to a buffer tank with a volume of 5 m3 and subsequently pumped to a primary settling tank for a pre-treatment. The flow is then split into 2 (pilot and co-pilot): 0.5 m3/h are sent to the pilot and 0.5 m3/h are sent to the co-pilot. These two biological treatment lines are composed of two anoxic basins equipped with mechanical agitators and three aerated tanks by disk diffusers. Each pilot section is followed by a secondary settling tank. Both lines contain sludge recirculation and internal recirculation with a heat exchanger to control temperature between 10 and 25oC. Traditional and innovative measurement systems are connected to a state-of-the-art industrial process control system with ample actuators and options for different operation and control scenarios. The pilot was put into service in January 2015. The pilot is part of the Laboratory on the Sustainable Development of Public Infrastructure.
These laboratories make it possible to analyze water samples by colorimetry, fluorometry, spectroscopy, radioisotopy and chromatography, as well as to analyze organic compounds and trace metals present in different matrices (water, effluents, sewage sludge, soils, sediments, biological tissues), and finally, to analyze the elements present in solid samples (rocks, soils, sediments, sludge). X-ray microfluorescence scanning: Non-destructive x-ray analyzes coupled with chemical X-ray fluorescence analysis of rocks, soils and sediments. Scanning electron microscopy: Production of high resolution images of the surface and composition of a sample using technology using electron-matter interactions.
/// features
- Measuring water activity in samples formulated for extending shelf-life
The water and environment laboratory has all the necessary equipment to perform physicochemical and (micro) biological analyzes of environmental samples (drinking water, river and lake water, wastewater, soils and sediments), sub-analyzes -products of drinking water disinfection and bacteriological analysis of drinking water.
Equipment:
- Atomic absorption
- Carbon analyzer (COT)
- Continuous chlorine analyzers
- Continuous UV / Screw Analyzers
- Continuous ammonia, nitrite and nitrate analyzers
- Continuous Chlorophyll Analyzers - Continuous Phosphate Analyzers
- Continuous turbidity analyzers
- Particle size analyzers
- Fall velocity distribution analyzers (ViCAs, elutriation system)
- Ion and gaseous chromatograph (GC-ECD, GC-MS, GC-MS-MS)
- Thermal cyclers
- BOD equipment, BMP
- Equipment for molecular microbiology
- Lipid extraction equipment
- Microscope
- Colon Identifier
- Respirometers
- Automatic titrator
Pilot for water treatment, pedagogy and research and development. This flexible equipment allows feasibility studies on different types of contaminated water is equipped with:
- Graduated tank for the storage of 200 L polyethylene feed water on a mobile frame
Water supply pumps and chemical dosing pumps (pH, coagulant, flocculant) all stainless steel with level detection and variable flow
- Flowmeters
- Graduated tanks for the storage of chemical products (pH, coagulant and flocculant corrector) with a capacity of 20 liters and flocculant) with a capacity of 20 liters
- Reading and pH adjustment with pH meter with built-in pH electrode
- variable speed stirring motor at 2000 rpm
- Transparent PVC coagulation tank with 5 L capacity, mobile, Rushton turbine stirrer
- Transparent PVC flocculator with 40 L capacity, mobile, propeller agitation
- 100 L transparent PVC lamellar separator with drain valve, variable blade tilt angle, upper overflow water flow with sample connection, sludge withdrawal pump
