Patrice J Mangin
BioEnergy La Tuque, Canada
Biography
Patrice Mangin holds a PhD in Process Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique (INP) of Grenoble and an Engineering Degree from INP Pagora, France. He is a bio-economy/bioenergy industry Chair holder, Professor, Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Québec at Trois Rivières (UQTR). He is the CEO of BioEnergy La Tuque (BELT) whose main objective is to build the first Canadian large scale biorefinery to convert harvest forests residues into renewable fuels (around 1 B$ project). He is an Associate Member of the Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH) and Interdisciplinary Research Center in Operationalization of Sustainable Development (CIRODD). He demonstrates over 40 years of experience with successful track record in the pulp and paper, forest products, and printing industries. He is on the Board of AQPER (Quebec association for the production of renewable energy), Chair of the biofuels and Member of the biomass committees. He is on the strategic committee of The Tuque Forest of Education and Research and on AGENDA 2020 (Washington) Chief Technical Officers Committee which coordinates the US strategy on the development of forest products and forest bio-economy. He also participates in the FPAC (Forest Products Association of Canada) BioPathWay.
Abstract
Abstract : Forest residues biorefinery: a diversification potential for traditional petroleum industry