Pretreatment and biorefining
819 376-5011, ext. 4526
julien.bley@cegeptr.qc.ca
julien.bley@cegeptr.qc.ca
Intervention fields
- Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass (physical/mecanical, chemical, thermal, biological) for various applications
- Processes for fractionating biomass into its various components at laboratory and pilot scale
- Biomass characterization
Expertise
- Development of a pretreatment process adapted to a specific biomass
- Adaptation of paper equipments for biomass fractionation
- Size reduction, grinding and refining
- Impregnation
- Acid/alkaline hydrolysis
- Enzymatic hydrolysis
- Steam explosion
- Cooking with hot water
Our equipment
- Grinders and refiners, laboratory and pilot scale
- Laboratory device for accelerated solvent extraction (ASE)
- Digesters M/K 6 L and 20 L
- Pressurized reactors 100 ml, 600 ml, 20 L, 200 L and 700 L
- Pilot plant
- Plug feeders 2 :1 and 4 :1
- Metso refining system
- Atmospheric impregnation system
- Steam cracker 600 cm3
- Screw press 150-400 L/min
- Twin screw extruder Entek E-max 27 mm
- High consistency pulper 4,2 m3•
- Analysis devices
- Elemental analyzer (CHNS)
- Chlorine analyzer
- Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA)
- Specific surface analyzer (BET)
- Ion chromatograph (IC)
- Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry device (GC-MS)
- Infrared analyzer (FTIR)