Development of an in situ filtration process to improve surface water quality (L2M application)

由于人类在陆地上的活动和新的气候变化情景，地表沃茨的压力正在增加。这些新的变量通过流域排放或直接释放被认为是初级生产力重要因素的磷和氮等污染物，对水资源和沉积物造成影响。出于这一根本原因，富营养化情景得到了增强。富营养化发生时，地表水会发生物理、化学和生物变化，产生恶臭、溶解氧减少、有害毒素产生等。随着富营养化水资源的出现每年都在增长，市场对修复程序的需求也在增加。通过使用浮动过滤系统、淤泥帷幕（即，用于特定区域的封闭），以及作为过滤介质的土工织物（织造的和非织造的）。一种新型的、灵活的、反应性的和潜在经济的环境补救措施正在开发中。迄今为止，专业文献中尚未提出类似的治疗方法。通过土工织物过滤，可以实现去除悬浮物和颗粒磷，降低富营养化情景的可能性，改善水资源质量，并可能减少/抑制藻类/蓝藻水华。因此，本实验2市场应用程序将评估该技术的市场，以帮助为NSERC I2 I第一阶段提案做准备。 将确定潜在客户、他们的商业模式和市场切入点。然后通过市场调查验证这些假设。 该计划为期四个月，分为三个不同的培训阶段。创业带头人（EL）将是一名全职博士生，他将全职（20至40小时/周）参与所有培训课程和所有活动。在项目结束时，将确定过滤项目的适当前进道路。

Pressure on surface waters is being increased due to human actions on land and new climate change scenarios. These new variables are causing impacts on water resources and sediment by watershed discharge or direct release of contaminants such as phosphorus and nitrogen, which are considered important factors for primary productivity. For this fundamental reason, eutrophication scenarios are augmented. In eutrophication occurrence, surface water will go through physical chemical and biological change including obnoxious smells, decrease of dissolved oxygen, and harmful toxin production. The market needs for remediation procedures to attenuate the presented issue are increasing as the occurrences of eutrophic water resources are growing every year. The eutrophication scenario attenuation is being addressed by the removal of suspended particles which are associated with nutrients using a floating filtration system, a silt curtain (i.e., for containment of a specific area), and geotextiles (woven and non-woven) as filter media. A novel, flexible, reactive and potentially economic environmental remediation is under development. Up to this date there is no similar treatment is being proposed in the specialized literature. By the geotextile filtration presented, removal of suspended solids and particulate phosphorus could be achieved reducing the likeability of eutrophication scenarios, improving the water resource quality and possibly decreasing/suppressing algal/cyanobacteria blooms. Therefore this Lab 2 Market application will assess the market for this technology to help prepare for the NSERC I2I Phase I proposal. Potential customers, their business model, and market entry point will be determined. These hypotheses are then validated through market research. The program is of four months in duration and is broken up into three distinct training phases. The Entrepreneurial Lead (EL) will be a full time PhD student who will work on the project full-time (20 to 40 hours/week) over the duration participating in all training sessions and all activities. By the end of the program, the appropriate path forward for the filtration project will be determined.