Our achievements - Valorization of industrial thermal waste
  • 2023 : Design and costing of the municipal heating network n°2 of the City of Saint-Félicien as a member of the Tetra tech project team. 
  • 2022-2023 : Preparation of "Regional Energy Ecosystem - EER under construction" for submission to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (QC) in response to the ministry's call for interest. Presentation of current and future projects with as pivots the O&M biomass cogeneration plant of Saint-Félicien and the planned municipal heating network. Characterization of energy and environmental performance of EER. For the MRC of Domaine-du-Roy. 
  • 2022 : Preparation of “Centre de Valorisation de la biomasse – CVB” files with low-temperature double-belt dryer for applications for financial assistance to Écoperformance and InnovBois. For the MRC of Domaine-du-Roy.
  • 2021 : Recovery of thermal discharges and CO2 generated by the Arcelor Mittal Contrecoeur steelworks site. Preliminary project for a municipal heating network (power of 7 MW th – capture, transfer, transport) and a CO2 network to supply an intensive commercial greenhouse complex of 15 ha located near the steelworks site. For the City of Contrecoeur.
  • 2021 : For the City of Saint-Félicien. Update of the concept and investments of the heating network of the Agrothermal Park n°2 and the Thermal Industrial Park. Preparation of the request for financial support to Transition Énergétique Québec / Recovery of Thermal Emissions.
  • 2021 : For the City of Dolbeau-Mistassini. Feasibility study of the heating network between the Produits Forestiers Résolu Dolbeau cogeneration plant and the Dolbeau-Mistassini Thermal Park site (capture, transfer, transport and use of thermal energy in a greenhouse motel). Heating network capacity: 35 GJ/hour in the form of hot water at 45°C.
  • 2020-2021 : For the Municipality of Anticosti Island. Feasibility study of the heating network between the ORC cogeneration plant of Énergie Anticosti and the site "vegetable & fruit greenhouse complex + greenhouses for the production of forest plants" (capture, transfer, transport and use of thermal energy in the greenhouses ). Heating network capacity: 5 GJ/hour in the form of hot water at 55°C.
  • 2020 : For the MRCVO and the CDE Senneterre. Feasibility study of the heating network between the Boralex Senneterre cogeneration plant and the Senneterre Thermal Park site (capture, transfer, transport and use of thermal energy in a greenhouse motel). Heating network capacity: 35 GJ/hour in the form of hot water at 45°C.
  • 2018 : for the City of Saint-Félicien / special projects department. Preparation of the presentation file for the Saint-Félicien Agrothermal / Cogeneration Park project with technical concept of high and low temperature heating networks and costing of conventional (aqueduct, waste water, road) and special (heating networks: capture, transfer , valuation, control). File for the attention of the Government of Quebec for request for financial support. Preparation of the promotional document for the Agrothermal Park / Cogeneration of Saint-Félicien for the attention of potential promoters (national and international with a particular focus on companies involved in the production - transformation of medicinal cannabis and recreational cannabis).
  • 2018 : For AU-Lab (Urban Agriculture Laboratory) / Montreal. Pre-feasibility study of an urban greenhouse complex (3,500 m²) with heating by recovery of thermal discharges from the Biomont-Valeco biogas cogeneration plant. Analysis of several installation sites with technical and economic impacts on the heating network between the site of the cogeneration plant and the site of the greenhouse complex.
  • 2018 : For the MRC Pierre-de-Saurel. Characterization of thermal discharges from Rio Tinto Fer & Titane in Sorel-Tracy (metallurgical site) with the aim of developing an intensive commercial greenhouse complex (10 ha) nearby with significant coverage of heating needs by recovery of thermal discharges from the metallurgical site.
  • 2017-2018 : for the City of Saint-Félicien / special projects department. Study of the recovery of thermal discharges from the Saint-Félicien biomass cogeneration unit (25 MW net) and the installation of low and high temperature heating networks (plus a steam network) for the supply of client companies in specific municipal industrial parks (agriculture – greenhouses over 24 ha, innovative industries – nanocellulose, biomass extractables, and conventional industries – heated industrial buildings).
  • 2017 : for the MRC of Maria-Chapdelaine. Update of the characterization of low and high temperature thermal discharges from the paper mill and the biomass cogeneration unit of Resolute Forest Products in Dolbeau-Mistassini. Characterization, preliminary concepts for the capture and transport of thermal energy, opportunities in terms of business development within the framework of the recovery of residual thermal energy.
  • 2017 : for the City of Saint-Félicien. Preparation and animation of the kiosk of the Parc Agrothermique of the City of Saint-Félicien at the annual congress of the Union des Municipalités du Québec. The Agrothermal Park of the City of Saint-Félicien won the "Municipal Ovation" prize as well as the "Maurice Beaubien" prize.
  • 2015-2017 : for the City of Saint-Félicien. Project coordinator for the design and construction of reception facilities for the Agrothermal Park (coordination between the City, Resolute Forest Products and Serres Toundra). Client company: Serres Toundra (first phase: 8.5 ha of greenhouses for the commercial production of cucumbers with recovery of thermal discharges from the cogeneration unit of the Kraft Resolute Forest Products pulp mill as thermal energy for heating the greenhouses). The reception infrastructures concern: capture, transfer of thermal energy and hot water network factory to greenhouses, process water network factory to greenhouses, wastewater treatment unit, aqueduct, roads.
  • 2016-2017 : for Serres Tundra. Responsible for the grant file within the framework of the Ecoperformance program of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources: reduction of GHG emissions by the greenhouse complex thanks to the recovery of thermal discharges from the plant's cogeneration unit PFR Kraft pulp as a heating source (25% reduction in natural gas needs for greenhouse heating).
  • 2016 : for the CEGEP of Jonquière - Mastera program / chair "Technology of Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency - EARTH" - in charge of the course "Valorisation of industrial thermal discharges": theory, study of real cases, simulation exercises, site visits.
  • 2015 : Invitation as a partner to the "Bioenergy and Heat Sources" Expert Panel as part of the implementation of Quebec's Energy Policy 2016-2025.
  • 2014 : for UPA DI. Prefeasibility. technique for the recovery of thermal waste from the diesel thermal power plant (5 MW) in Dédougou / Burkina Faso by agri-food and manufacturing activities as part of a CIDA climate resilience project. Evaluation of the wood energy equivalent in terms of avoided deforestation.
  • 2013 : specialist invited to the Table of Experts "Biomass, residual materials and fatal heat" of the Commission on Energy Issues of Quebec for the fatal heat component (industrial thermal discharges).
  • 2013 : for the City of St-Félicien. Thesis "Cogeneration, eco-performance and sustainable development" presented to the Commission on Energy Issues in Quebec.
  • 2013 : for the City of St-Félicien. Characterization of thermal discharges from the Kraft pulp mill and the PFR cogeneration unit for recovery by greenhouse complexes as a source of heating.
  • 2012-2013 : for the Union of Greenhouse Producers of Quebec (SPSQ). "Assessment of the recovery of industrial thermal discharges by greenhouse complexes in Quebec - Demonstrative case study in the USA, Canada outside Quebec, France and Holland".
  • 2010-2013 : for the Atikamek community of Obedjiwan. Preliminary projects for a complex of vegetable – fruit – medicinal plant greenhouses and a complex of forest plant greenhouses (work platforms dedicated to women and young people) heated with thermal discharges from the ORC cogeneration unit (3.5 MW) using biomass and a non-timber forest products (NTFP) drying unit.
  • 2012 : for Innoventé / Trois-Rivières project. “Integration of a greenhouse complex with a biomass cogeneration unit – Capture, transport and distribution of thermal energy – Economic impacts”. Low temperature (condenser cooling water) and high temperature (turbine extraction steam) thermal energy.
  • 2011-2012 : for the CDE Chapais. "Technical, economic and legal feasibility study of the recovery of thermal discharges from the Chapais cogeneration". Analysis of the recovery of low-temperature (condenser cooling water) and high-temperature (combustion gas) thermal discharges. Development plan for the reception of 9 ha of greenhouse complexes.
  • 2011 : 1st Québec forum on energy. Speaker for "Energy potential of industrial thermal discharges in Quebec - Applications".
  • 2011 : for Innoventé / St-Patrice de Beaurivage project. "Valorization of low-temperature thermal discharges from the cogeneration unit by a 2 ha pepper greenhouse complex with aquaponic unit".
  • 2011 : for the Residual Materials Board of Lac St-Jean. "Assessment of Waste-to-Energy Technologies". Establishment of a decision support tool.
  • 2010 : for the cities of Chapais, St-Félicien, Senneterre, and Dolbeau-Mistassini. "Changes in the operating context of APR 91 biomass cogeneration units - Direct and indirect socio-economic and environmental impacts - Proposals for the attention of the government" for an adjustment of the contractual conditions of production.
  • 2010 : for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy (MAMROT). "Energy potential of industrial thermal discharges in Quebec" as part of the work of the Working Group "The rural environment as an energy producer". Establishment of an inventory by administrative region of industries generating thermal discharges (hot gases, hot water) with location and characterization of the "energy deposit".
  • 2010 : for the municipality of St-Jean-De-Dieu. “Unconventional energy approach and development of a rural community”. Note: in 2014, the municipality of St-Jean-De-Dieu concretized its project in the form of a district heating network supplied with heat by a biomass boiler.
  • 2008-2010 : personal work. Characterization of thermal discharges from the isolated diesel thermal power plant (5 MW) in Mopti-Sévaré (Mali). Realistic technical and economic recovery options. Evaluation of the wood energy equivalent in terms of avoided deforestation.
  • 2000-2010 : for the City of St-Félicien. Technical, economic, commercial and legal feasibility studies. "Valorization of thermal discharges from the biomass cogeneration unit by greenhouse complexes - Agrothermal park project". Reception and heating capacity: 14 ha of greenhouses. Studies of a pilot phase, several sites, updating the operating parameters of the cogeneration and the infrastructure of the agrothermal park.
  • 2000-2007 : for the City of Senneterre. Technical, economic, commercial and legal feasibility study. "Valorization of thermal discharges from the biomass cogeneration unit by greenhouse complexes and a fish farm - Thermal park project".
  • 2005 : for IQDHO. Preliminary characterization of thermal discharges from the Levis municipal incinerator with a view to valorization as an alternative source of heating for a greenhouse complex.
  • 2005 : for Aquaculture Service Conseil. Characterization of thermal discharges from the Tembec paper mill in Témiscamingue for recovery by intensive commercial fish farming (trout – 3,000 tonnes/year).
  • 2004 : for the City of Baie-Comeau. Pre-feasibility studies for the recovery of thermal discharges from the Abitibi-Bowater paper mill by a greenhouse complex and the recovery of thermal discharges from the Alcoa aluminum smelter by a fish farm.
  • 2003-2004 : for the CLD Beauharnois-Salaberry. Technical, economic, commercial and legal feasibility studies. "Valorization of thermal discharges from the EKA-Valleyfield and NEXEN-Beauharnois sodium chlorate production plants by greenhouse complexes - Agrothermal complex project". Characterization of thermal discharges from the CE Zinc plant in Valleyfield and the PPG plant in Beauharnois (chemical industries).
  • 2003 : for the cities of St-Félicien, Chapais and Senneterre. Study of the tax system for cogeneration plants – proposed changes to this system submitted to the Government of Quebec.
  • 2003 : for CLD Matagami. Pre-feasibility study of the recovery of thermal discharges from the Lebel-sur-Quévillon paper mill by greenhouse complexes.
  • 2003 : for the CLD María-Chapdelaine. Pre-feasibility study of the recovery of thermal discharges from the paper mill and the Dolbeau-Mistassini cogeneration unit by greenhouse complexes.
  • 2001-2002 : for Nature Garden Greenhouses – New Richmond. Design of the low-temperature heating system (floor and air) recovering heat emissions from the Smurfit-Stone plant (in collaboration with Les Consultants RSA – Alma).
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