BRIENS, Cedric
Professor
Department of
Chemical Engineering
P.Eng
Dipl. d’Ingénieur (ENSIC)
1975
Ph.D. (Western) 1980
DR. BRIENS is Director, R&D, of the Institute for Chemical and Fuels
from Alternative Resources (ICFAR)
http://www.icfar.ca, which he founded with Dr. Franco Berruti and other colleagues at the University of Western Ontario.
He has over 25 years of experience in both academia and industry.
His areas of expertise are fluidization and particulate operations,
which he has applied, for example, to the development of new reactor
technology for the conversion of biomass and heavy oils into valuable
products.
Current research projects, supported by Industry and in cooperation with Franco
Berruti, address the industrial process used to convert
biomass and fossil fuels into valuable fuels and chemicals. For
example, the spraying of liquid into a fluidized bed is being studied at
the commercial scale, under conditions relevant to the fluid coking process,
in collaboration with Syncrude Canada and ExxonMobil. Another example is the development of a new mobile pyrolyzer for the
pyrolysis of agricultural and forestry waste, in partnership with Agri-Therm,
a spin-off company that was created to develop technology that he invented
with Franco Berruti. Two other projects involve the upgrading of the
pyrolytic bio-oil, in collaboration with Agri-Therm and
Imperial Oil. Current, more fundamental research is focusing on the
development of new, advanced multiphase reactors for thermal
and catalytic cracking.
Cedric is the lead of the Thermochemical Processing theme of the Lignoworks network: http://www.ligonworks.ca/content/thermochemical-processing
Past projects involved the monitoring of industrial operations such as high and low pressure fluidized beds, pneumatic transport lines and solids dryers, as well as the study of solids attrition in fluidized beds, the remediation of electrostatic effects, the optimization of solids mixers, cyclone separators and filters.
More details may be found at
http://www.icfar.ca.
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Contact Info
Western Engineering
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavillion,
Room number 2333
Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext 88865
Fax: 519-661-4016
E-mail: cbriens@uwo.ca
