{"id":35901,"date":"2023-06-06T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/?p=35901"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:02:58","slug":"water-at-the-heart-of-the-2023-open-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/news\/water-at-the-heart-of-the-2023-open-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Water at the heart of the 2023 Open Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

For its 5th<\/sup>\u00a0edition, the Open Innovation Challenge organized by\u00a0Eramet Ideas<\/a>\u00a0and EIT RawMaterials invites candidate companies to propose a solution to better manage water resources in Eramet’s mining and metals activities. The initiative is also supported by Austmine, the leading industry association for the Australian Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector.<\/p>\n

Monitoring, optimization and reduction of fresh water consumption, resource modeling, recycling… the issues are numerous and the solutions welcome. In fact,\u00a0Eramet has made\u00a0water conservation<\/a>\u00a0one of the objectives of its\u00a0CSR roadmap<\/a>\u00a0and will very soon make it a major priority in its new roadmap.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Click here to submit your application<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Ten finalists will be selected and an online \u201cspeed dating\u201d will be organized with the members of the jury, composed of experts from the various Eramet entities around the world.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, the final of the Challenge will take place in Paris, where three winners will be awarded during the Eramet Ideas innovation seminar.<\/p>\n

The Open Innovation Challenge, a source of long-term collaborations<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The ultimate goal of the challenge is to create lasting partnerships between Eramet and start-ups. This is why the winners receive funding to test their solutions on the Group’s sites and confront them with the reality of the field.<\/p>\n

This year’s winner, Unusuals’ solution, is based on the use of artificial intelligence and data processing to automate maintenance of assets and detect any anomalies. \u201cOur solution collects visual data to analyze it with our AI, providing our customers with useful and actionable information about their assets, such as defects or maintenance parameters<\/em>\u201d, says co-founder Mario Fernandez Marin. \u201cThe Challenge was excellent and we much enjoyed being part of it. In addition, the contact with a customer and user of our solution provided us with valuable feedback to improve our AI and product<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

A mission will be organized this month to test the solution at\u00a0Setrag<\/a>, a subsidiary of\u00a0Comilog<\/a>, which operates Gabon’s only railroad to transport ore, goods and passengers. \u201cWe will meet the technical experts in person and install a new set of cameras to assess new potential use cases<\/em>,\u201d explains Marin. \u201cWe expect to gather more information about the specific defects and safety issues affecting Setrag\u2019s railway infrastructures, in order to customize our AI to add the most value for Setrag and Eramet<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the winners of previous editions are not to be outdone!<\/p>\n

In January 2022, it was Bind-X that was rewarded<\/a>\u00a0as part of the \u201cResponsible mining\u201d edition of the Challenge. Bind-X offers an innovative product portfolio to control dust emissions on Eramet’s mining sites. By replacing water, what is currently being used, Bind-X can save several million liters of this precious resource per year. Other applications include tailings management, slurry stabilization and granulation.<\/p>\n

Between November 2022 and March 2023, Bind-X demonstrated its solution at the\u00a0Grande C\u00f4te Operations<\/a>\u00a0(GCO) site in Senegal, on a road through which mineralized sand from the mine is transported to the separation plant. \u201cWe sent 40,000 kg of our dust control product \u2018Bind-DC19\u2019 to Senegal,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>explains Martin Spitznagel, CEO of Bind-X. \u201cIt was applied on 30,000m\u00b2 of primary haul roads with onsite support from a Bind-X team of 2 engineers<\/em>.\u00a0We have proven efficient soil stabilization and dust prevention capabilities over a length of 3 kilometers and a duration of more than 3 months<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Application of the Bind-X product on the road used by GCO to transport sands from the mine to the plant.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Significant progress was achieved, with a threefold reduction in dust fallout in the months following the treatment compared to the period before application. Bind-X\u2019s solution also generated many other benefits regarding water consumption (reduced by over 85%, the equivalent of more than 20 million litres, during the three-month trial period on the road section) and diesel consumption (reduced by more than 60,000 litres). CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions linked directly to current dust control procedures were also reduced by 94%.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture tests on other Eramet sites, including New Caledonia and Gabon, have already been proposed by the Group<\/em>,\u201d concludes Spitznagel. \u201cFor Bind-X, this collaboration was a unique opportunity to get direct insights into the challenges of GCO\u2019s operations, especially how to further optimize operations while coexisting with communities and the CSR goals of the company. We now envision a long-term supply contract with both Eramet and GCO, further expanding an already-established relationship<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Before\/after: on the left, the road before treatment, on the right, the road after treatment, solidified.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[194,158,277,274,315,278],"class_list":["post-35901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group","tag-eramet-ideas-en","tag-france-en","tag-innovation-en","tag-open-innovation-en","tag-research-development","tag-water","nature-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWater at the heart of the 2023 Open Innovation Challenge - 6 June 2023 - News - Eramet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/news\/water-at-the-heart-of-the-2023-open-innovation-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water at the heart of the 2023 Open Innovation Challenge - 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