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Welcome Rob Taylor. Rob has joined the ICFAR team as of February 3, 2010 as a Technical Specialist.

 

Welcome to Dr. Mehran Solimani, new post-doc fellow who will be working on Jet-Bed Interactions in Fluidized Beds.


Recent Articles about ICFAR:
January 2010 edition of Business London magazine pages 22-23. Click here for full article.
Canadian Farm Business Management's website. Click here for full article


Martin Huard successfully defended his MESc thesis entitled "Investigation of a Novel Gas-Solid Separator for Downer Reactors" on Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Martin is now continuing his studies and research work as a PhD student at ICFAR. Congratulations, Martin!


ICFAR's Grand Opening - October 16, 2009 was a huge success. Thank you to all who participated. Article on UWO's homepage click here. Article from Ministry of Research & Innovation here.


Franco Berruti and Cedric Briens attended the tcbiomass2009 conference in Chicago. Cedric presented "A Mobile Pyrolyzer for the Conversion of Biomass into Bio-Oil", by Cedric Briens, Franco Berruti and Lorenzo Ferrante. For a copy click here.
Franco participated in the pyrolysis panel discussion.
ICFAR also presented two posters:

  • "The Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network (ABIN): A Canadian Network for Research in Green Energy, Fuels and Chemicals from Agricultural Residues" by Franco Berruti. Poster can be viewed here.
  • "Characterization of Bio-oils From Agricultural Biomass as Potential Pesticides" by C. J. Booker, P.M. Harden, R. Bedmutha, T. Vogel, A. Gloor, L. Ferrante, I.M. Scott, K.L. Conn, F. Berruti, C. Briens, K.K.-C. Yeung


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