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ENVIRONMENT |
2006, November 3 |
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| Technova, or life in 3D |
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Created in Poitiers in 2001, Technova provides a wide array of services in research, development and imagery. Its principal tool is 3D digital simulation in fluid mechanics. Here are some explanations put forward by the manager, Andréas Stassinopoulos.
How is it possible to simulate ventilation in a tunnel afire? For obvious reasons, an on-site test would be anything but realistic. A three-dimensional simulation makes more sense; by integrating all relevant parameters, it allows for adaptation of the structure to traffic constraints; that is just one concrete example of the kind of equation that Technova has had to solve over recent years. What with its vocation as a service provider, the Poitiers-based company is specialized in both the environment and industrial methods; historically speaking, it is doubly deployed.
“In fact, Technova was created following the 2001 closure of the energy-centered CRITT” (regional innovation and technology transfer center), recounts Andréas Stassinopoulos, company co-director along with Stéphane Pignoux. Technova has carried on some CRITT activities on the premises of the eco-industry pole. And it now has at its disposal a rare and precious tool: a wind tunnel for treatment of materials. “We may test out the drying of a product while simultaneously controlling speed, temperature, or even humidity”, explains the one-time Poitiers University Ph.D. student. So it is that products in wood, not to mention milk powder, have been subjected to the “clutches” of the wind tunnel.
Large-scale accounts
In addition to this “marginal activity”, 3D simulation remains the core skill furnished by Technova; it redounds upon both the environment and the industrial method aspects; that means numerous studies pertaining to impacts on odors, pollutants, risk assessments… The human-sized firm belongs to a small circle of specialists in 3D digitization applied to highly complex problems. As a result, national design offices and other large-scale accounts such as petroleum concerns and the pharmaceutical industry have been placing orders with Technova. “We are henceforth accustomed to focusing our efforts on five-legged sheep…”, summarizes the manager, who is capitalizing on more than 20 years of experience in 3D simulation. In a local framework, Technova has recently pooled its efforts with Technavox, another Biopole-based company, as regards its water treatment methods and procedures.
“At the cutting edge of reality”, Technova (4 salaried employees, 240,000 € of sales in 2005) also intends to launch itself onto a third market, that of health. “With our software, we are capable of working on simulations involving every variety of fluid flow…”, concludes Andréas Stassinopoulos. A word to the wise…
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