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16 June 2023

Ange Patrice Miafo Takoudjou

Ange Patrice Miafo Takoudjou Postdoctoral fellow After her PhD in Biochemistry option Food Science and Nutrition from the University of...

16 June 2023

Maria Rosiane de Almeida Andrade

Maria Rosiane de Almeida AndradePostdoctoral fellow Maria Rosiane de Almeida Andrade is a Brazilian Chemical Engineer who has a master’s...

16 June 2023

Fernanda Lima Rei Ramos E Silva

Fernanda Lima Rei Ramos E Silva PhD student Fernanda is a Brazilian Chemical Engineer graduated from the Federal University of...

16 June 2023

Estefanía Orrego Restrepo

Estefanía Orrego RestrepoPhD student Estefanía Orrego Restrepo was born in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia. She got her Physics Engineer and Master...

16 June 2023

Jeanne Lacombe

Jeanne LacombeIntern Jeanne Lacombe is a third-year student from Québec pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Bioresource Engineering at McGill University....

16 June 2023

Maria Gabriela Lira Rangel

Maria Gabriela Lira RangelPhD student Maria Gabriela Lira Rangel is from Recife, Brazil. She is a chemical engineer with a...

16 June 2023

Amani Gnouma

Amani GnoumaIntern Amani Gnouma is a 25-year-old Tunisian girl, motivated and ambitious. After obtaining her baccalaureate, Amani chose to study...

16 June 2023

Véronique Ducharme

Véromique DucharmeMaster student Veronique is a graduating student and Quebec native studying Chemical Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke. She...

16 June 2023

Ariel Colaco de Oliveira

Ariel Colaco de OliveiraPostdoctoral fellow Ariel holds since 2017, a degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Technology (UTFPR). ...

2 January 2023

Mehdi Bahrami

Mehdi BahramiPhD student Mehdi is from Shahsavar, Iran. In 2012, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in gas processing and transmission...

26 October 2022

Ghazal Azadi

Ghazal AzadiPhD student Ghazal is from Iran. She graduated from Razi University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical...

25 October 2022

Jaqueline Gilmara Barboza JanuárioPhD student Jaqueline Gilmara Barboza Januário was born in Ivaiporã-PR (Brazil), graduated in Food Engineering from the...

19 July 2022

Thomas Bernard

Thomas BernardPhD student Thomas is from Sherbrooke, where he has completed a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering (2018) and a...

19 July 2022

Tristan Roy

Tristan RoyMaster student Using a bachelor-master bridge program, Tristan started his master’s degree in electrical engineering in the summer of...

12 May 2022

William James Dufour Doherty

William James Dufour Doherty Intern William James Dufour Doherty is a Quebec student at Collegial international Sainte-Anne. He is in...

2 March 2022

Pr Alcardes seminar is now online!

Guys, the BTL is proud to offer you the opportunity to see (or see again) Pr Alcardes presentation on cachaca!...

17 February 2022

Getting everything ready to go… and waiting for mother nature

Last week Pr Eduardo Lins de Barros Neto, Emilianny Magalhaes, Diego Bezerra, le Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie et Henri Gauvin went...

16 February 2022

The CRITA team is getting bigger… and it’s a good thing!

Just in time for the season, the sugar shack now has two new members! Rosiane and Beatriz, welcome to the...

1 February 2022

Pr Boselli’s and Dr Longo’s presentation is now available on our website!

This is the first presentation from international collaborators in relationship with food science and technology, a presentation of the Industrial...

3 January 2022

Emilianny Magalhaes

Emilianny MagalhaesPostdoctoral fellow Emilianny Magalhaes is a Brazilian Chemical Engineer, who has a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical...

3 January 2022

Meet our new baby – HPLC 6

Guys, HPLC are like people so after a while, they need to get some rest and retire. Please meet our...

3 January 2022

Biomethane… and LOTS of it!

Guys, please meet our new incubators that will be used on a daily basis for BMP test to verify the...

3 January 2022

Diêgo Vinicius Fernandes Bezerra

Diêgo Vinicius Fernandes BezerraPhD student Diêgo Vinicius Fernandes Bezerra was born in Macau, Rio Grande do Norte and is in...

9 December 2021

Could disposable masks act as a feedstock for the production of liquid fuel?

On December 2021, the Biomass Technology Laboratory (BTL) in close collaboration with our partners CelluFuel found an approach allowing the...

22 November 2021

Winners of the 2021 Pumpkin carving contest

The winners of the 2021 pumpkin carving contest are finally announced. This year the winning pumpkin was designed by Claudia...

17 October 2021

André Álvares Monge Neto

André Álvares Monge NetoPostdoctoral fellow André Álvares Monge Neto is a Brazilian Food Engineer with a master’s and Ph.D. in...

17 October 2021

Beatriz Mendonça

Beatriz MendonçaPhD student Beatriz Mendonça is a Brazilian student, in her final year of graduation in the Chemical Engineering graduate...

17 October 2021

Cynthia Bell

Cynthia BellAdministrative agent Cynthia is our new administrative agent. She studied in Sherbrooke and graduated in 1986. She held the...

17 October 2021

Taynara Ewerlyn Barbosa Ramalho

Taynara Ewerlyn Barbosa RamalhoPhD student Taynara E B Ramalho has technical training in administration from the Instituto Federal do Rio...

10 September 2021

Macarena is back !

The BTL is very proud to welcome, again, Ms Macarena Miranda Yanez in the team. Macarena came first as an...

9 September 2021

Innofibre’s seminar is now online!

Guys, this is a very busy beginning of semester at the BTL and we are proud to enrich once again...

2 September 2021

Pr David Chiaramonti’s seminar is now online!

If you missed Pr Chiaramonti, don’t feel bad! You now have the opportunity to watch (or rewatch) it as often...

30 August 2021

What? Quebec is too cold, Spain has hectic meal times…. What about Italy?

Dear followers, for those of you looking for a PhD opportunity, our colleague Pr David Chiaramonti is looking for a...

26 August 2021

The robots and the maple trees.

What is an expert in robotics (Pr François Grondin) doing in a maple forest near St-Romain in August? Definitely cooking...

9 August 2021

Wendell Lopes

Wendell LopesPhD student Wendell Lopes, originally from Brazil, has a bachelor, a master as well as a PhD in chemical...

28 July 2021

Claudia Bezerra Silva

Claudia Bezerra SilvaPh.D Student From Brazil, Claudia has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering. Her Bachelor was at...

26 July 2021

Pr Vaneeckhaute’s seminar is now online!

If you missed Pr Vaneeckhaute, don’t feel bad! You now have the opportunity to watch (or rewatch) it as often...

19 July 2021

A new partnership with Formica

The BTL is proud to announce a new partnership with Formica. The project, leaded by Pr Bruna Rego De Vasconcelos...

19 July 2021

She’s never too far from the new innovations in renewable electricity!

On July 6th 2021, Pr Bruna Rego De Vasconcelos went to the press conference announcing the first community micro grid...

6 July 2021

The BTL is too far or cold to apply for a PDF position? Why not Spain?

Our collaborators in Zaragoza are looking for a postdoctoral fellow, the procedures to apply are provided at the following link:...

30 June 2021

ReSolve Energie announces its demonstration plant in Lac Megantic, Quebec

On June 28th 2021, ReSolve Energie announced its demonstration plant to be built in the city of Lac Megantic in...

28 June 2021

Franco Berruti’s Seminar 2021

14 June 2021

OMG – There is a Jaguar loose at the BTL…

…But no worries, this guy does not move that fast (nobody is in danger). After moving slowly from the factory...

2 June 2021

Pr Jose Luis Sanchez Strikes BACK

The BTL team enjoyed Pr Sanchez first presentation so much the first time he came to visit that we asked...

26 May 2021

Formica joins the list of BTL partners

On Mai 5th 2021 was the startup meeting for our new collaboration with Formica. Willing to reduce their environmental impact...

20 May 2021

Talita Kênya Oliveira Costa

Talita Kênya Oliveira CostaPhD StudentBrazilian. Bachelor and Master in Chemical Engineering. Bachelor’s degree at the Federal University of Campina Grande...

17 May 2021

Next seminar: Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass and Waste to BioIndustrial Resources

The presentation will showcase the R&D activities and capabilities of the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources in...

26 April 2021

A new project is underway for the BTL!

We are happy to announce our very recent partnership with Laiterie de Coaticook and Gestion P.AS for an alcoholic fermentation...

18 March 2021

Javier Ricardo Gómez Cardozo

Javier Ricardo Gómez CardozoPost-Doctoral StudentJavier Ricardo is a Chemical Engineer with a Master degree in Biotechnology. His PhD degree in...

11 March 2021

Jean-Philippe Caron

Jean-Philippe CaronMaster student Recently graduated from the University of Sherbrooke with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, Jean-Philippe joined the...

5 February 2021

Pr José Luis Sánchez’s presentation on Advanced biofuels

The BTL is proud to announce the presentation of Pr José Luis Sánchez, Associate Professor at the Chemical and Environmental...

21 January 2021

The BTL is now officially supported to be part of the EU project CERESIS

In December 2020, the BTL got the confirmation that the team obtained the support from the program New Frontiers in...

13 January 2021

The PtX seminars are now online!

As you know, December was PtX month at the BTL and we had the opportunity to host two incredible seminars...

9 December 2020

The annual X-mas tree harvest – how many engineers and scientists does it take to cut a tree?

Last week, the BTL team went out for their annual Christmas tree harvest activity. The rule is simple, you use...

4 December 2020

Next Seminar: CRI’s CO2-to-methanol technology and a perspective on the regulatory and commercial landscape for PtX with CCU – December 9th 2020

Global climate goals require rapid adoption of carbon capture and utilization (CCU), in particular to reduce the dependency of transport...

4 December 2020

Dr. Ralph Overend’s presentation

Biomass and Bioenergy assessment in a broad sweep from deep-time to the climate constrained future Biomass has been one of...

1 December 2020

Power-to-X technologies and their role in Quebec’s energy transition

The Biomass Technologies Laboratory would like to dedicate December as being the Power to X technologies (PtX) month and we...

24 November 2020

It’s starting to look a lot like BIOGAS

On the picture the brains and muscle behind the project: from left to right – Simon Kelley (Mechanical technician), Camille...

24 November 2020

Camille Filiatrault Chastel

Camille Filiatrault ChastelPost-Doctoral Student After gratuating from Chimie ParisTech (Paris’ Technical Institute of Chemistry) in 2014, Camille specialised in biotechnology...

24 November 2020

The BTL rocks the Quebec Mines & Energie Conference

On November 17th 2020, both Pr Bruna Rego De Vasconcelos and Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie were attending the Quebec Mines &...

13 November 2020

Next seminar: Biomass and Bioenergy assessment in a broad sweep from deep-time to the climate constrained future, by Ralph P. Overend, on 25th of November at 9:00 am

Biomass has been one of the most important components of the renewable energy development since the energy crisis of 1973....

4 November 2020

The Industrial Research Chair on Maple Syrup Production (CRITA) obtains its first funding from NSERC

From left to right, M. Pierre Richard (Comité de Développement de St-Romain), JM Lavoie (BTL-CRITA), M. Nicolas Fournier (Aménagement Forestier...

26 October 2020

Andrés Rojas joins the BTL as financial and administrative coordinator

Born in Colombia, Mr Rojas has been living in Sherbrooke for now 4 year. He has a bachelor degree in...

14 October 2020

Meet our in-house algae biomass semi-pilot

In the last couple of weeks, the biological team (leaded by Dr Jean-Baptiste Beigbeder) took the initiative of making a...

14 October 2020

Carolina Ardila Suárez

Carolina Ardila SuárezPostdoc Student Perform her master and doctorate studies at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. Her master studies were...

9 October 2020

Next Seminar : “Bioenergy as a solution to improve forest management”, Pr Alexis Achim

Du to financial pressures, the selection of areas for harvest generally tends to be biased towards the most accessible and...

28 September 2020

The annual apple picking event

Last week, the team went out at the Verger Le Gros Pierre for our annual apple picking event taking advantage...

25 September 2020

Pr Farid Chejne pays a virtual visit to the BTL

On Wednesday September 16th, the BTL had the honor to virtually host Pr Farid Chejne from the Universidad Nacional de...

28 August 2020

The new kid on the block

Friends, this is an Automatic Solvent Extractor (or ASE), and we have been dreaming to have such piece of equipment...

28 August 2020

Algae at the BTL?

As a matter of fact, the BTL has been working in the field of bioremediation of industrial wastewater for now...

24 August 2020

Pellets at the BTL

The BTL is more than happy to work on the different types of biofuels that are of interest to our...

12 August 2020

BTL United

From August to September 2020, the BTL team will be finally united at the Scale Up Center (our own building)...

29 July 2020

In preparation for the fall crops

The BTL has obtained its license for cannabis and hemp analysis from health Canada. Our L.A.B (Laboratoire d’Analyse des produits...

27 July 2020

A new way to produce hydrogen – The BTL is proud to collaborate with Hydrogenium on their disruptive hydrogen technology

On July 7th 2020, M. Stephane Gaudreault, CEO and founder of Hydrogenium dropped by the BTL to discuss about a...

22 July 2020

Sergio Andres Jaimes Rueda

Sergio Andres jaimes RuedaPh.D Student Sergio A. Jaimes Rueda is currently a PhD student at Université de Sherbrooke and his...

22 July 2020

Emy Leblanc

Emy LeblancMaster Degree Student Emy, proudly from Quebec, began a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the BTL in January....

15 July 2020

The BTL King of Analytics is now … also a professor ?

A couple of days ago, our colleague Dr Thierry Ghislain, head of the BTL-L.A.B (Laboratoire d’Analyse du Biosourcé) has been...

2 March 2020

Pr Bruna Rego De Vasconcelos presented the PtX group at the CRIBIQ meeting

On February 25 and 26th 2020, Pr Bruna Rego De Vasconcelos presented the BTL-PtX team and approach at the conference...

27 February 2020

Wilza joins the BTL team

A student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, Wilza is on her last step...

20 February 2020

Excellence at the BTL

Frederik Johannes Wolfaardt & Sergio Andres Jaimes Rueda Congratulations to Erik and Sergio who just received the prestigious Eurêka Award from...

20 February 2020

Olivier Nani Sinata joins the BTL team

Olivier Nani Sinata is a design engineer specialized in renewable energies, wind power and biomass. He studied at Ecole Nationale...

13 February 2020

Stephanie Cangussu joins the BTL team

Stephanie Cangussu is a Chemical Engineering student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She has a background in...

11 February 2020

The BTL still active at the ART-Fuel Forum

From February 10 to 11, 2020 was held the 6th plenary meeting of the ART-Fuel Forum in Brussel, Belgium. Pr...

11 February 2020

Louise joins the BTL team

Louise is a French (master) student from Paris. After preparatory classes in biology, she entered a biotechnology school in Strasbourg...

11 February 2020

Malo joins the BTL team

Malo comes from France, where he studies at the Upper School of Biotechnology of Strasbourg. His education has provided him...

11 February 2020

Gabriel Bonanato Lopes joins the BTL team

Gabriel Bonanato Lopes is a bachelor student in chemical engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and a...

11 February 2020

Luís Guilherme joins the BTL team

Luís Guilherme is in the final stage of his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, at the Federal University of Minas...

11 February 2020

Emy Leblanc joins the BTL team

Emy, proudly from Quebec, began a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the BTL in January. During her bachelor’s degree...

4 February 2020

The BTL host Pr Valentyna Pidlisniuk from the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic

On Friday January 31st, the BTL team had the opportunity to meet Pr Valentyna Pidlisniuk from the Jan Evangelista Purkyne...

4 February 2020

Minister Bibeau visits the Biomass Technology Laboratory

On January 31st 2020, The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau (Agriculture and Agrifood Canada) passed by the Biomass Technology Laboratory to meet...

4 February 2020

The BTL conquers Mont Megantic

On February 1st 2020, the BTL team went for an excursion at the Mont Megantic for a scenic snowshoeing trail....

24 January 2020

A new BTL member from the UFRN

Fábio Medeiros graduated in Chemical Engineering (bachelor and master degree) at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN,...

24 January 2020

A new member of the BTL biological team all the way from the south

Julia is from Brazil and is a new PhD student of the lab. She did her bachelor and master’s degree...

18 January 2020

Our first intern from Chili, a first step toward a new collaboration

Macarena Miranda is from Chile and is a senior student of the Industrial Engineering program in “Universidad del Desarrollo”. She...

15 January 2020

The Biomass Technology Laboratory host Pr Johann Gorgens fom Stellenbosch University in South Africa

On Friday January 10th 2020, the BTL lab has the outmost pleasure to host the world renowned Pr Johann Gorgens...

24 December 2019

An nice opportunity to talk about the biofuel industry at the UFRN in Brazil

Starting from December 16th 2019, Pr Lavoie, head of the Biomass Technology Laboratory has the opportunity to visit different teams...

24 December 2019

Minister Jonathan Julien visiting the BTL

On December 16th, the BTL team had the opportunity to meet Minister Jonathan Julien at the Biomass Technology Laboratory. The...

24 December 2019

The BTL annual Christmas biomass harvest

On December 7th 2019, the BTL team went out of Sherbrooke for the annual Christmas tree harvest. Members of the...

29 November 2019

The BTL presents – Pr Gil Garnier (BioPRIA/Monash University)

On November 28th 2019, the BTL was honored to host Pr Gil Garnier, director of BioPRIO at Monash University in...

29 November 2019

Summer visit to Foresta Lumina

During summer 2019, the team visited the local attraction forest alumina. A good opportunity for people that never had a...

29 November 2019

Another year, another award

This year, our own Maricelly Martinez Aguilar presented at the annual Symposium organized by the Department of chemical and biotechnological...

18 November 2019

Welcome Professor Eduardo

Professor Eduardo Lins of Barros Neto has a background in chemical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do...

4 November 2019

Athlete, student… and now doctor

On October 21st 2019, during election day in Canada, our own Jean-Baptiste Beigbeder successfully defended his thesis that was aimed...

17 October 2019

Startup meeting – KrownCORP and BTL

On Wednesday October 9, the KrownCORP team visited the BTL for the official startup meeting of their collaborative project. The...

17 October 2019

The BTL participating at the Thèse des Bois contest

On September 30th 2019 at the Pavillon Kruger of the Université Laval, Pr JMLavoie from the BTL participated as a...

10 October 2019

Lecture from Pr Rafik Naccache

On October 7th 2019, Pr Rafik Naccache from Concordia University dropped by for a visit at the Biomass Technology Laboratory....

10 October 2019

Maricelly the globetrotter

After her visit in Firenze to collaborate with RE-CORD, our own Maricelly Martinez Aguilar went for a visit in Colombia...

24 September 2019

Winter is coming… but before, let’s enjoy some apples!

Last week, the BTL team has the opportunity to visit the Gros Pierre orchard where they could participate in a...

24 September 2019

Maricelly visiting Italy

Our own Maricelly was recently visiting our collaborator’s infrastructure in beautiful Italy. With the help of Ramin (right), Maricelly (left)...

19 August 2019

Visiting Port-Daniel

On July 31st, Prs de Vasconcelos and Lavoie went to the beautiful region of Port Daniel to visit the installations...

19 August 2019

Once again… distinguished visitors

On August 14th 2019, the BTL team had the opportunity to exchange with a team from Valoris as well as...

9 August 2019

Quebec rugby team wins the eastern Canadian championship

From the 28th to the 30th of June 2019, Jean-Baptiste Beigbeder from the Biomass Technology Laboratory represented the province of...

9 August 2019

Bringing PtX to the BTL (with style)

Photo Credits : Dr Iulian Zoltan Boboescu (BTL) The Biomass Technology Laboratory is proud to announce the nomination of Pr Bruna...

30 July 2019

The BTL at the ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY conference in Coimbra (Portugal)

On July 4th 2019, two members of the BTL team (Maricelly Martinez Aguilar & Jean-Michel Lavoie) presented the team’s work...

24 July 2019

Welcome Alexander

Alexander is a student from the UK studying for an integrated master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London....

24 July 2019

Welcome Axel

Graduated from AgroParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences), Axel followed an educational curriculum revolving around...

19 July 2019

Marine Gautier’s thesis defense

On July 16th was held PhD student Marine Gautier’s thesis defense at the Université de Sherbrooke. The evaluation committee was...

17 July 2019

Contact with the Coimbra team

On the picture (from left to right): Pr Jose Luis Sanchez, Maricelly Martinez Aguilar, Pr Antonio Portugal and Pr JM...

25 June 2019

The BTL visits Bolzano (It)

On June 20th and 21st, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie from the Biomass technology Laboratory visited Pr Baratieri’s group in Bolzano, Italy....

25 June 2019

First BBQ of the year

On May 30th 2019, the weather was sufficiently collaborating in Sherbrooke so that the BTL team could organize the first...

25 June 2019

Visit from the AQPER

On May 22nd, the Biomass Technology Laboratory had the opportunity to host members from the AQPER that hold their AGA...

25 June 2019

Energir dropped by the BTL

On April 5th, 2019 a team from Energir dropped by the Biomass Technology Laboratory at the Université de Sherbrooke. With...

25 June 2019

The BTL at the European Commission

On June 17 and 18th 2019, Pr Lavoie was invited to pursue his mandate and representing Canada at the ART-Fuel...

30 May 2019

Welcome Ève

Ève Larocque is an undergraduate student in environmental chemistry and bioresources at the Université de Québec à Rimouski. Eve has...

30 May 2019

Welcome Erik

Erik Wolfaardt is a process engineer who completed his Master’s degree at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2010. ...

30 May 2019

Welcome Melissa

Melissa Rios Zertuche is a Biotech Engineering student from ITESM (Mexico). Her research interests are revolving around the production of...

10 May 2019

Welcome Sergio

Sergio A. Jaimes Rueda is an electronic engineer from Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia) and electromechanical technologist from Unidades Tecnológicas de...

10 May 2019

Welcome Anna

Anna Luísa Dufan is a Chemical Engineering student at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. She...

26 April 2019

An eminent visitor

On April 24th, the LTB received in its P3 facilities the visit of M. Marc Croteau, Deputy Minister of Ministry...

26 April 2019

Welcome to a new team member

Margot Sitnikow studies Chemical and Process Engineering at the IUT Occitanie of the Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier (France). She...

26 April 2019

Welcome to the team !

Lucie Jayat, Chemical and Process Engineering student at the IUT Occitanie of the Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier (France) has...

26 April 2019

Where in the world is Maxime Lessard?

Maxime Lessard, one of the proud members of the analytical branch of the Biomass Technology Laboratory is visiting Pr Jose...

26 April 2019

Visit from Pr Menachem Elimelech from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University

On March 20th 2019, Pr Menachem Elimelech visited the Biomass Technology Laboratory engineering site. The meeting involved a summary of...

26 April 2019

Seasonal event at the sugar shack

This year again on March 14th, the BTL team went for its annual and traditional dinner at the sugar shack....

25 April 2019

Visit to Chibougamau

With a delegation from the Université de Sherbrooke, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie had the opportunity to showcase the expertise of the...

1 March 2019

Maxime Lessard from the BTL obtains another prestigious award

Once again, the soon-to-be-graduating master student Maxime Lessard has maintained the bar high by obtaining the Suncor Grant rewarding achievements...

7 February 2019

A new team member– CelluFuel/Boralex project

Ivan Acosta Morales obtained his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Zulia (Venezuela) in 2016. His experience...

30 January 2019

Kick-off meeting

On January 16th, the BTL team met with its new partners CelluFuel and Boralex to establish the first step of...

24 January 2019

Very distinguished visitors

On January 16th, the BTL’s team got a visit from the Honourable Minister Catherine McKenna at the biological installations of...

17 January 2019

A new intern for the BTL biology laboratory

Kenzo graduated in biotechnological engineering from the University of Sherbrooke in december 2018. He is currently applying for his graduate...

16 January 2019

A visit from Lac Megantic’s member of Quebec parliament at ReSolve Energy Inc. infrastructures

On Friday January 4th 2019, M. François Jacques, member of Quebec Parliament for the CAQ has made a visit with...

14 January 2019

Happy New Year 2019

On behalf of the Biomass Technology Laboratory, we would like to wish all of our partners and clients a Happy...

19 December 2018

Meeting about biojetfuels

On December 18th during the event organized conjointly by the CRIBIQ and the CRIAQ, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie, director of the...

19 December 2018

Meeting at Monash University in Australia

On december 12 2018, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie has presented the different research projects being done at the Biomass Technology Laboratory...

17 December 2018

Presentation of the Power-To-X concept

On Thursday Novembre 22nd 2018, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie was part of a panel aimed on the conversion of electricity to...

5 December 2018

9th edition of the Symposium des étudiants en génie chimique et génie biotechnologique

We are very proud of our colleague Maxime Lessard who won the best oral presentation award at the 9th edition...

5 December 2018

GARDN Conference, Ottawa

Dr Bruna Rego de Vasconcelos attended to the GARDN Conference at Ottawa and presented the BTL vision about the biorefinery...

19 November 2018

A new PhD student in the LBT team

Mike Lugo obtained his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York in 2017. He joined...

19 November 2018

Welcoming a new student to LBT

Maria Rosiane is native from Brasil. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the Federal University of...

12 November 2018

Grinding operation of sweet sorghum at LBT

On november 7th 2018, our collegues Simon Kelley and Jean-Baptiste Beigbeder from the LTB assisted in the preparation and grinding...

19 October 2018

Pr Jose Luiz Sanchez at the sugar shack school

On October 6th 2018, Pr Jose Luiz Sanchez from the Universidad de Zaragoza, visited the Sherbrooke team to catch up...

5 October 2018

Thanks to Pr Castaldi

The BTL would like to thank Pr Marco Castaldi from CCNY for organizing the 2018 EEC/WTERT Bi-Annual Conference in New...

5 October 2018

The EEC/WTERT bi-annual conference in New-York

On October 4th 2018, Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie presented a lecture on the combined R&D opportunities in biofuels and PtX both...

24 September 2018

Collaboration with the University of Zaragoza

The PhD student in Chemical Engineering Maricelly Martínez visited the facilities of the Thermochemical Processes Group of the University of...

20 August 2018

WasteEng2018

Dr Bruna Rego de Vasconcelos attended the WasteEng2018 conference in Prague with an oral presentation at about the challenges in...

20 August 2018

WasteEng2018 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic

Pr Jean-Michel Lavoie gave a talk on tars reforming for synthesis gas production using residual carbon and mineral content from...

20 August 2018

Panel Discussion at the WasteEng2018 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic

During the WasteEng2018 international conference, Professor Jean-Michel Lavoie participated in a panel discussion about biogas and syngas production from biomass...

5 June 2018

Conference on biorefineries in ghent, Belgium

During the RRB-14 conference in Ghent, Pr Lavoie gave a keynote talk on the different steps involved in scaling up...

4 June 2018

Welcome to Amine Hamdache

The Laboratory of Biomass Technologies (BTL) is pleased to welcome our new intern in chemical engineering, Amine Hamdache. Amine is...

30 May 2018

New partnership with Hydro Technologies company

The BTL is proud to welcome Hydro Technologies joining the team’s industrial collaborators. The project, funded conjointly by the company,...

30 May 2018

New partnership with Ciment McInnis company

The BTL is proud to welcome its new partner, Ciment McInnis who will join the team’s industrial collaborators in addition...

24 May 2018

9th Regional Leaders Summit RLS Energy

Dr. Thierry Ghislain participated at the 9th Regional Leaders Summit within the RLS Energy network from May 16 to 18,...

30 April 2018

Welcome to Dr Rajesh Munirathinam

The Biomass Technology Laboratory is pleased to welcome our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr Rajesh Munirathinam. Dr Munirathinam got his PhD...

30 April 2018

Welcome to Dr Florian Chemarin

The Biomass Technology Laboratory (BTL) is pleased to welcome our new postdoctroal fellow, Dr Florian Chemarin. Dr Chemarin recently got...

2 March 2018

Sugar Shack

The Sugar Shack of Maple Grove has become a must for the Laboratory. It’s always a pleasure for those who...

14 February 2018

Pilot for the furfural production

The LTB team is proud to announce the delivery of the pilot dedicated to the production of furfural from hemicelluloses...

8 January 2018

Position for PhD or master student

The Biomass Technology Laboratory currently offers 4 positions for master’s students. Two positions are planned for chemical engineering students, one...

19 December 2017

Platform 1 is on the way!

We are proud to announce the delivery of the non-enzymatic cellulose hydrolysis pilot from the platform 1 towards the demonstration...

18 December 2017

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 !

From all members of the LTB team, we wish you an happy new year 2018, health, love and joy for...

12 December 2017

Merit Scholarships for 2 of us !

We are extremely proud that 2 Master’s students, also CRIEC-B team’s members each won a Merit scholarship for their academic...

7 December 2017

“Best Poster”

Congrats to Maxime Lessard, a Master’s student, for winning the “Best poster presentation” prize, at the 8th edition of the...

7 December 2017

Annual gathering of fir Trees

Once again, the CRIEC-B Team were invited to pick their own Christmas tree at the Sapinière of Alain Paquette in...

21 November 2017

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

Prof. Jose Luiz Sanchez, who was visiting the Chair this summer, visited one of the sites where some of the...

20 November 2017

Thesis Defense – James Kong Win Chang

Last Thursday the doctoral student, James Kong Win Chang, defended his doctoral thesis in front of the members of jury,...

10 November 2017

Visit to the brand new Ciment McInnis plant

The owner of CRIEC-B recently traveled to Port-Daniel-Gascons in Gaspésie to visit the brand new Ciment McInnis plant. This facility...

2 November 2017

LOOKING FOR MSC/PHD/PDF CANDIDATES

LOOKING FOR MSC/PHD/PDF CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD OF BIOFUELS AND CO2 SEQUESTRATION Our team is actually looking for candidates for...

16 October 2017

Thesis Defense – Alizeb Hussain Syed

The CRIEC-B congrats the student Alizeb Hussain Syed who recently defend his doctoral thesis before jury and colleagues. To read...

16 October 2017

Thesis Defense – Leonardo Tricomi

The CRIEC-B congrats the student Leonardo Tricomi who recently defended his doctoral thesis before jury and colleagues. To read his...

10 July 2017

Seminar – July 14th : Pr Jose Luis Sanchez

This Friday, at the main campus of the Université de Sherbrooke, Pr Jose Luis Sanchez, invited by the CRIEC-B, will...

20 June 2017

Nomination – 2017 Inspiration Awards

Our team is proud to announce the nomination of our laboratory technician, Sophie Beauchemin, for the Quality of Service category...

19 June 2017

EUBCE 2017 – Award for the best poster !

The Chair rocks the EUBCE conference and exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden (June 2017). Researchers from platform 1 and platform 4...

15 June 2017

2017 Linneborn Price – EUBCE Stockholm

Pr David Chiaramonti, close collaborator of the CRIEC-B and codirector of Leonardo Tricomi obtained in June 2017 the Linneborn price...

12 May 2017

Seminar – University of Zaragoza in Spain

Professor Jean-Michel Lavoie, presenting a seminar on the activities of his CRIEC-B team at the University of Zaragoza in Spain....

13 April 2017

Ph.D Thesis – Edris Madadian – McGill University

CRIEC-B Titular, Jean-Michel Lavoie, was fortunate to be able to reconnect with his former colleagues at McGill University and the...

14 March 2017

Sugar Shack 2017

The most courageous members of the CRIEC-B braved the cold weather last Friday to attend the traditional meal of the...

20 February 2017

Light-up Snowshoes ride

Saturday, February the 18th, a part of the CRIEC-B team gathered for a light-up snowshoes ride during the Lumières en...

12 January 2017

Virtual tour of P-3

An exclusive virtual tour of the CRIEC-B’s new installations ! In a few weeks, the new building P-3 will be...

19 December 2016

Recipient Gene-H.-Kruger Scholarships – Emmanuelle Bahl

We would like to congratulate Emmanuelle Bahl, one of our graduate students in chemical engineering, a member of the CRIEC-B,...

15 December 2016

Seminar : Dr Esteban Chornet – Enerkem & CRB Innovations

Dr. Esteban Chornet, a leader in the field of sustainable development, specifically in the conversion of biomass to biofuels, was...

28 November 2016

Seminar : Mariana Royer, Ph.D – Bio ForeXtra

The future of the natural ingredients chain through the valorization of forest biomass in Quebec. Founded by Dr. Mariana Royer in...

25 November 2016

Seminar : Dr. Peter Fransham, PhD – Abri-Tech Inc.

From the Laboratory to Commercialization : A Case Study Last November 11, Dr. Peter Fransham came to present a seminar...

10 November 2016

International Conference on Flow Dynamics 2016 (ICFD) Sendai, Japan

We are proud to highlight the PhD candidate’s participation Mr Alizeb Hussain Syed, as a speaker at the thirteenth international conference...

6 April 2016

Sugar Shack

As every year, the sugaring is the perfect opportunity to satisfy your sweet tooth! In the spirit of gathering, March...

10 December 2015

BioFuelNet representative

In September 2015, BioFuelNet (BFN) Canada was seeking a HQP (Highly Qualified Personnel) representative to join its HQP Committee, and...

27 November 2015

Workshop

As part of the workshop organized by BioFuelNet, Prof. Jean-Michel Lavoie and a delegation of professors from several countries have...

27 November 2015

Fuel Choices Summit

On 10 and 11 November 2015 was held on Fuel Choices Summit in Tel Aviv in Israel. As part of...

26 November 2015

The ECOMUNDO fair

The week of November 2, Prof. Jean-Michel Lavoie was invited to present two lectures as part of EcoMundo fair held...

7 October 2015

Conference of Afidah Abdul Rahim

On Friday 2 October, the CRIEC-B had a filled room composed of the Chair members and some members of the...

6 October 2015

Conference of Prof. Bahruddin Saad

On October 1 the conference of Prof. Bahruddin Saad, a professor at the University of Penang in Malaysia (Universiti Sains...

11 September 2015

A tasty activity

On March 12 2015, the team of CRIEC went to the sugar shack with the departement of Chemical Engineering and...

29 July 2015

Renewable Carbon Sources processing to fuels and chemicals

On July 9 and 10 it was held the Canada-Europe Workshop entitled “Renewable Carbon Sources processing to fuels and chemicals”...

29 July 2015

Advanced Biofuels Symposium

Presence of the CRIECB team at Advanced BioFuel Symposium (BioFuelNet) Professor Jean-Michel Lavoie accompanied by industrial session presenters, Peter Fransham...

24 July 2015

Advanced Biofuels Symposium

Joey Labranche has presented a poster describing his research work in Montreal at the annual meeting of the advanced biofuels...

21 July 2015

Use of a Mechanic Shovel

Farouk El Fathi, first-year undergrad student in chemical engineering currently doing an internship with large-scale impact such as municipal solid...

6 July 2015

Canoe-camping activity

From 3 to 5 July was held the annual event of the summer CRIEC B-canoe-camping in the park of the...

16 June 2015

A price for Kevin Aissa

The student Kevin Aissa won the prize for best presentation at the 3rd Student seminar of the research consortium and...

16 June 2015

First Summer BBQ

First Summer BBQ of the Chair.

16 June 2015

Best Presentation Award

Professor Jean-Michel Lavoie won the prize for best presentation for his speech under the APCBEES conference which was held in...

16 June 2015

Presentation for the end of the master of Joey Labranche

Presentation for the end of the master of the student Joey Labranche, a packed room composed of members of the...

2 June 2015

Setting-up a new bench

Setting-up a new experimental bench for Computational Fluid Dynamics validation.

14 May 2015

25th edition of the Energia Contest

February 3, 2015 was held the 25th giving ceremony Energia Contest prize organized by the Quebec Association for the mastery...

14 May 2015

INNOVEIT 2015

From 5 to 7 May 2015, James Kong Win Chang, a KIC Innoenergy alumnus was invited to be among the...

30 January 2015

Symposium

On November 20, the team of CRIEC-B was present at the Symposium of the chemical engineering department for the second...

27 December 2014

CRIEC-B renewal

Industrial Research Chair in cellulosic ethanol and biocommodities of the University de Sherbrooke will be renewed until 2017 thanks to...

5 December 2014

CRIBIQ – BioFuelNet retreat

Some pictures of the CRIBIQ – BioFuelNet retreat that has taken place November 26-27.

26 November 2014

Vertech Seminar

The 5th of November, the Vertech City contest took place, an event that was being held for the first time...

10 November 2014

A Teacher Involved

Professor Jean-Michel Lavoie recently attended the meeting of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering that was being held in Niagara...