Research Center In Process Engineering - Biorefinery (CRIP)

Affiliated To

• Department of Chemical Engineering

Contact Information

• Telephone: (514) 340-4711 #4034
• Fax: (514) 340-3297
• Email: jamal.chaouki@polymtl.ca
• Web Site: http://www.biorefinery.ws

Expertises

• CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
• Reaction fundamentals and reactor design
• Heat transfer
• Transport processes

Professors/Researchers

• Jamal Chaouki, Director
• Luc Baron, member
• François Bertrand, member
• Louis Fradette, member
• Mario Jolicoeur, member
• Robert Legros, member
• Jean Paris, member
• Gregory S. Patience, member
• Michel Perrier, member
• Paul Stuart, member

Research Specification

• Innovation, integration, and evaluation of biomass and urban waste applications
• Development of multi-technological processes : chemical, biochemical, and thermal; for production of heat, electricity, clean fuel, synthesis gas, oils and specific chemical products
• Integration of processes into existing industries (pulp and paper, oil, starch and glucose)
• Optimization of integrated processes (environmental impacts, material consumption, raw materials and energy, financial considerations)
• Conception and development of biorefinery processes according to a multi-disciplinary approach and sustainable development framework

 

Research Personnel

• Professors/Researchers: 10
• Graduate Students: 40
• Postdoctoral Fellows: 10

Specialized Equipments

High Temperature Reactors:

• Gas-solid fluid bed
  • 20 kg/h, D=8 cm, H=2 m, T= 20°C to 800°C
• Gas-solid turbulent fluid bed
  • D=20 cm, H=2 m, T= 20°C to 1000°C
• Gas-solid circulating fluid bed
  • 100 kg/h, D=30 cm, H=3 m, T= 20°C to 1200°C
• Down-flow bed
  • 100 kg/h, D=20 cm, H=3 m, T= 20°C to 1500°C

Ambient Temperature Reactors:

• Multi-phase fluid bed & Bubble column
  • (D=30 cm, H=3 m), (D=10 cm, H=2 m)
• Circulating fluid bed
  • D=15 cm, H=2.5 m
• Spouted bed for drying & many mixing tanks

Specialized Hydrodynamic Measurements:

• Radioactive Particle Tracking
• Fiber Optic Probes (20 à 1000°C)
• Gamma Ray Tomography