Projects

Areas of research 

Biohydrogen  production

photolysis and fermentation, effect of microorganism consortia

Modelling and optimization of biological systems

mass and energy balances, population balance equation, determination of best operating conditions

Emerging carbon utilization technologies

sustainable chemical and biological utilization of CO2, process intensification, integration of green technologies

Digitalization of (bio)-chemical processes

monitoring of bioreactors, machine learning, digital twins

Clean energy transition in the chemical industry

techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment, integration of CCUS and bioprocesses

Ongoing projects

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate salt kinetics and computational fluid dynamics (2023 - ), Université de Sherbrooke

Integrating experiments and modeling to optimize biohydrogen production (2024 - ), Université de Sherbrooke

Completed and other research activities

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate salt techno-economic analysis (2022-2023), Polytechnique Montréal

Techno-economic analysis of biogas to acetic acid (2022-2023), University of Regina

Production of sustainable jet fuel from captured CO2 via reverse water gas shift and Fischer Tropsch (2020-2022), Polytechnique Montréal

Soft-monitoring of lactic acid bacteria fermentation (2018-2019), Technical University of Denmark

Project manager of ModLife (2018-2019), Technical University of Denmark

Techno-economic analysis of a microalgae production facility (2014-2018), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Robust control of batch and semi-batch reactors (2011-2012), Politecnico di Milano & University of Bradford