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TITAN TIMES | 2022 YEAR IN REVIEW
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
With a strong commitment to innovation, 2022 saw continued partnerships between Titan and post-secondary academia on research and product development initiatives benefiting the engineering community. The following outlines our research projects and published technical papers developed in conjunction with our partners.
Concordia University, Montreal QC (3 years NSERC Alliance Grant)
Titan’s R&D team continued to work this year for the 3 years Alliance NSERC program for the ‘Geotextile Filtration to Improve Surface Water Quality' , with Concordia University Montreal, QC. Very encouraging results were obtained from both for Lake Caron and Lake Johanne studies. Emphasis was laid on the recycled use of custom-made geotextiles to contribute to the circular and sustainable economy. A new proposal titled ‘ Development of water-energy systems with Indigenous communities’ was submitted to the New Frontiers Exploration and NSERC Discovery Horizons. This interdisciplinary research project will contribute to and foster an integrated human-environment coupled approach for transforming the understanding and the management of the water-energy nexus with a focus on First Nations communities. This research will address LCA and climate change adaptation and water security etc. in high-risk areas. This would also create a new application business opportunity.
McGill University, Montreal QC (3 years NSERC Alliance Grant)
The NSERC 3 years alliance research funding program with McGill University's Geo Group, entitled "Improving the performance of ground- supported slabs subjected to extreme environmental conditions using rigid high strength fiberglass geogrids" , is progressing very well and encouraging results have been obtained so far. Sam Bhat, Titan’s CTO of Geosynthetics, “I’m excited to collaborate with McGill University’s Geo-Group on this groundbreaking study, which aims to provide an alternative environmentally friendly design option by utilizing Titan’s advanced ConForce Grid™ to reduce maintenance costs and extend the service life of concrete structures exposed to harsh environmental conditions and cold climates in Canada. This method is projected to result in long-term solutions with a significant reduction in carbon emissions”. Our Alliance Grants (ALLRP) R&D project entitled, "Improved and sustainable design of railway embankments in Canadian cold climate", is progressing very well with the Geo-Group of McGill University headed by Prof Mohamed Meguid. The results are expected to be very useful for designing railway embankments using geosynthetics in Canadian cold climates for supporting a new research project at McGill University aiming at studying the performance of reinforced railway track using Titan’s developed innovative geosynthetic products.
Queen's University, Kingston, ON (Various NSERC Grant Projects)
We are excited to report that a new 3 years NSERC – MITACS Alliance Grants (ALLRP), project entitled "Long-term performance of bituminous geomembranes for waste containment and mining applications" , was awarded this year. The objective of this proposal is to implement the findings of the past collaboration between Titan and Queen’s and leverage the newly initiated partnership to: (1) Provide fundamental insights on the mechanism by which BGMs age when exposed to different solutions to estimate their service life in the field; (2) Explore the diffusive transport of different contaminants through intact BGMs; and (3) Provide the first insights into the effect of aging of BGMs on the interface shear strength of different liner configurations.
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