Continuous bathymetrical monitoring – San Francisco
In 2017, Fluves installed two kilometers of fiber optic cable in a bay in San Francisco where sediments are contaminated. In order to design the…
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Dredging company Jan De Nul conducts a sand suppletion on the Dutch coastal line of the isle of Texel, where an HDPE-pipeline is buried at…
Read moreDischarge measurements
Fluves installed three Hydrovision permanent discharge measurement systems at Flanders Hydraulics Research in 2017. The systems measured water speed velocities up to 4 m/s in very…
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Parkwind NV operates 3 offshore windfarms in the Belgian concession zone in the North Sea, providing around 550 MW of green energy to the Belgian…
Read moreKallosluis monitoring
In 2018, a condition monitoring system (strain, water flow, wind, position, …) was installed for the Harbour of Antwerp by Com&Sens with subcontractors 24Sea and Fluves. The…
Read moreCNWS model
The hydrological sediment export model Curve Number-WaTEM/SEDEM (CN-WS), based on the spatially distributed erosion and sediment delivery model WaTEM/SEDEM was optimized by KULeuven and Fluves. …
Read morePluvio monitoring stations
We installed 10 pluviographs for the Flemish Government, to capture rain data to calibrate their erosion and sediment transport models. The monitoring stations are solar…
Read moreMonitoring stations
Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM) measures and controls the quantity and quality of surface water, groundwater and sediments in Flanders (Belgium). To manage the unnavigable Flemish…
Read moreSediment monitoring network
Numerous gauging stations keep aclose watch on the Flemish watercourses. Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM) continuously registers water and sediment flows in the unnavigable Flemish waterways.…
Read moreContinuous bathymetrical monitoring – Flanders
By installing sediment traps in rivers, the Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM) increases the efficiency of the dredging operations needed. VMM requires a comprehensive measurement of…
Read moreAqua4C fish farm
The Aqua4C fish farm facility is unique in its focus on sustainability. Through a highly eco-friendly breeding process that involves collaboration with a tomato farm…
Read moreTriple C
Our climate is changing rapidly. VMM wants to implement innovative and cost-effective measures to decrease the sediment transport towards rivers. These measures are necessary to…
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sedimentation study, India
The assignment for the Cochin Port Trust consists of four main parts: (1) collect field data collection to feed the simulation models (2) conduct hydrodynamic…
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strategies
The Agency for Maritime Acces of the Flemish Government wants to investigate the possibilities to optimise it’s maintenance of the Port of Zeebrugge. For that…
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