Meeting of experts to discuss green chemistry and sustainable processes
The CTTÉI received a big visit this week: its partners from the French competitiveness cluster Trimatec. Industrial visits complemented by working sessions for the development of joint projects on clean processes were on the menu. Discussions covered topics as varied as the extraction of molecules of interest using supercritical CO2, the treatment of residues by wet oxidation and the concentration of effluents by membrane processes. The participants, all high-level experts in their field, were able to pool their perception of trends in the clean process sector in order to work on setting up collaborative projects in which each person's expertise will be put to good use.
Initiated in 2008, this partnership brings together three Quebec technology transfer centres (CNETE, CEPROCQ and CTTÉI), Innovation fluides supercritiques (IFS), the Club français des membranes and the Trimatec cluster. The group's next meeting is scheduled for June, when it plans to organize a technical seminar on clean processes as part of the Green Process Engineering international congress to be held in Mont-Tremblant.
It should be noted that the partners receive funding from the Ministère des relations internationales et de la francophonie.
From left to right on the picture: Didier Dhaler (CTI), Damien Bourcier (FlowerSep), Sébastien Lefevre (Inovertis), Émilie Carretier (Aix-Marseille University), Béatrice Ruiz (Trimatec cluster), Karima Benaissi (IFS), Yacine Boumghar (CEPROCQ), Claude Maheux-Picard (CTTÉI), Stéphane Sarrade (IFS), Philippe Moulin (Club français des membranes), Jean-François Vermette (CTTÉI), Romain Kapel (University of Lorraine), David Chézaud (FlowerSep), Laurent Stavaux (Trimatec cluster).
