Students at the HELHa in chemical and biochemical industrial engineering, a project related to agri-food and cosmetics was awarded to us. In a world where resources are limited and the environment is a concern, it seems more than necessary to valorise and recycle as much waste as possible. The manufacture of chocolate or cocoa generates many wastes since only cocoa beans are used. Cocoa pods, pulp, and hulls are often abandoned near cocoa trees or used as fertilizer for crops. Our project involves extracting gallic acid from the cocoa pods. This would make it possible to recycle waste during the production of chocolate or cocoa and obtain a value-added molecule that could be used in the cosmetic field. This molecule has interesting antioxidant properties. The following video will explain in more detail the content of our project. How to extract this molecule ? How to dose it ? What problems have we encountered ? What follow-up to this project ?

Chloé Rocq and Jérôme Didier

Link to the video

Hello everyone,

Our research and development project is a continuation of the previous year’s project, that is the realization of a didactic bench allowing us to illustrate important notions developed throughout our engineering curriculum. It will be used as a teaching tool for the students of the years to come who will have the opportunity to visualize the technical concepts related to :  

➢Hydraulics via a circulator, 2-way, and 3-way valves, and balancing valves 

➢Heat transfer via the tube exchanger, fins, and fan 

➢Instrumentation via temperature sensors and flow meter 

➢Electricity via the cabinet and electrical plans 

➢Automation via the future PLC (Siemens S7-1200) 

The PLC is already ordered, but to make this video, I pretended that we didn’t have enough money to buy it. So, I could ask people for crowdfunding. 

Hello everyone,

As the school year comes to an end, first-year master’s research and development projects do too. Thus, it felt like a good idea to take some distance from the work achieved over the year and present with a brief video clip some of the issues encountered, the external help we were lucky to receive as well as the group’s overall feeling about this year’s work.

Our group’s project was the revamping of an educational HVAC test bench whose purpose is to serve as a teaching tool for students.

If the research part of the project this year was quite little (all the main parts were already installed), the development part was on the contrary still of size as the installation was all but finished. Therefore, our work was about perfecting it as much as possible. I hope you will find this presentation of interest!

Research and Development – Project 20 Educational HVAC test bench – Taking some distance.mp4

Hello everyone!

We are very pleased to announce that our revolutionary machine is almost on the way to be presented. Due to some beyond of control technical problems, the S.M.EC is not finished yet as I am writing those lines but we wanted to offer you a short trailer of the machine that is going to help the futur students in electronics engineering.

Disclaimer : That video is tongue-in-cheek and not to be taken too seriously. The three of us have worked hard on that project and we are still hoping sincerely it will be up and running on May 19. We just have a problem with the recognition of the value of resistance that is not solved for the moment but we are still working on it.

We hope that the video will make you smile and want you to discover our project.

Tom DUBOIS – 1MMLEN

Hello everyone,

It is almost the end of the school year and a few months ago we all, as students in Master had to choose a project that we’d carry.

Mine was the abrasive tool, a machine with potential that thanks to the contact of a grinding wheel and chips of different matters, measures the kinetic coefficient of friction. The first goal of this project was to know if the machine was functional or not and by functional that means that the results of the coefficient of frictions have to be consistent. This project led us to a second project “the inclined plane” but hopefully not a lot of money was spent during its making .

In a promotional point of view the money is not what we are looking for (that’s a bit what I have explained in my promotional video so the client has nothing to worry about). It is only interesting to be sponsored to publicise our project because I find it very useful many compagnies. Therefore in my video I present you few things such as what the machine was designed for and why our project can be interesting for compagnies . I hope you’ll enjoy my video (link down below):

Hello everybody
Welcome to this video I m Arthur Notredame and I’m going to show you the project we have done with my classmates. We realized a leak detector for tanks
The principle is quite simple. it consists in detecting leaks in a tank thanks to the sound emitted by them. The système is composed of 4 main parts :
• The tank
• The pump
• The closed system
• The control screen
This project is for educational purposes within the school. The model can be used in automation or electronics lessons. It can also be developed for the industrial environment. Where it will be very useful for many companies.
The idea and the system are very simple and they could be very useful for many companies. However, many improvements can be made such as the introduction of artificial intelligence that will recognize the different types of leaks or even a way to locate the leaks precisely

Hello everyone,

Here is my personal video about the research and development project of the 1st master in industrial engineering.

With the help of two automation students, Ségolène and Souffiane, we supervised and instrumented an ultrafiltration bench located in the research centre (CEREF) of the HELHa.

My video applies more an economic and marketing point (as requested for the 5th video). I only talk a little about the details of the project and for that I invite you to consult the videos of Ségolène and Souffiane.

Enjoy your viewing

https://youtu.be/UPaiRzXaOsY

Hello everyone!

At the beginning of our academic year 2021-2022, we were asked to choose a project for our master 1 in industrial engineering. After various discussions with our teachers, we choose to start with the theme of electrogravimetry. Indeed, it is a course that we have from this year. This course is accompanied by a laboratory but this one seemed incomplete. Indeed, we had an application of the theory but no industrial example of application.
This is why we chose this subject as it concerns us directly and we find it logical to have industrial examples in class.
This one required a certain amount of money and therefore we would like to find sponsors to continue this one.
Please find below the link to our presentation!

Thank you very much,

Pourignaux Evan 1MMCCH

Hi everyone,

6 months ago, 5 students from HELHa University college chose the “solar incubator “as their 1^st Master’s project. After 6 months of hard work, my team and I are proud to now share the finished product with you!  Based on the partnership with a psychiatric hospital in Bukavu and financed by HELHa’s international office, the project aims to be a great option for buying drugs and medical treatments for mental patients.

My goal with this video is to present to you how we pretend to do that. How can our device simulate 21 days of incubation of chicks? And why do I need you for the next steps?

In fact, to complete the project and propose a full-size solar incubator to our partners, we need you! We are searching for financing to transform our 80-eggs capacity prototype into a 2500 one. Please do not hesitate to get back in touch with me if you have any further propositions/questions.

Please click on the following link to watch the video and enjoy!

English_video5_PIENGEONHadrien_project.mp4

Hadrien Piengeon-1MMEM

Hey guys,

I am Victor Raedemaeker, currently in the fourth year of a master’s degree in industrial engineering – Energy and special technic and one of the members of the HVAC project.

With my colleagues, we participated in the development of the project in the electrical and automatic parts. After many hours of understanding the installation and misunderstanding left by last year’s group, we have brought the electrical cabinet up to standard and updated the electrical plans. We also updated the interface of the PLC so that it could match reality.

The purpose of this video is to give information about our project and its history, but also about its use in the laboratories.

As a promotional video, I hope to encourage next year’s students to be involved in this project.

I hope that the video will convince you to support or join our project for the next year!

Victor Raedemaeker – 1MMEE

Here is the link to the video: HVAC Project – Promotionel Video