PEARL

Process Engineering
Advanced Research Lab

ACS Spring 2021

September 20, 2017

External Events, News

ACS Spring 2021 conference is going to be held virtually this year with theme of “Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century”. More than 200 presentation, posters, and several workshops will be presented during conference. In line with the conference theme, the organizers have arranged a series of workshops, and industry tours to raise the awareness of the opportunities available to the chemical engineers of tomorrow. Members of Pearl, will...

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PLASTIC RECYCLING GOES ELECTRIC: NEW TECHNOLOGY GETS A BOOST

July 19, 2018

News

Instead of relying on fossil fuels, chemical processing plants may soon be able to use electrically-generated heat units. Leading the charge is Pyrowave, a company established in 2014 by two Polytechnique Montréal graduates, who today announced a research project in conjunction with Professors Bruno Blais and Jamal Chaouki (Department of Chemical Engineering). The purpose of the research project is to accelerate the deployment of this new techno...

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Chemical Engineering Research Day

March 21, 2021

Archive, News

The ChemEngChem Research Day and CIC Annual General Meeting are back! The event will take place on March 30 - 31, 2021.We are delighted with the impressive list of speakers for this special event not to miss! Our invited guests are : Phil De Luna, Carbontech Innovator • Podcast Host • Forbes 30 Under 30 • TEDx Speaker • Wildly optimistic about changing the world Nick Virgilio, B.Ing., M.Sc.A., Ph.D. A special "Next Generation" session...

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AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019

July 24, 2019

News, Uncategorized

Professor Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, was recognized as an exceptional researcher and outstanding teacher.  He received this award during the convocation of graduate students of UdeM and Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal Universities. He graduated in 1980 from the National School of Chemical Industries in Nancy, France. He, also, holds a master's and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, obtained in 1981 and 1985, a...

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Jamal Chaouki : The Winner of R.S. Jane Memorial Award 2018

November 4, 2018

News

Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, won the R. S. Jane memorial award 2018.  He received this award  during the 68th chemical engineering conference in Toronto for his exceptional achievements to the field of chemical engineering and industrial chemistry. During this conference, he presented a plenary lecture on “The development of industrial processes in context of sustainability”, in which the usage of clean heating energy, mainly m...

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PEARL featured in Plan Magazine

November 4, 2018

News

The Plan Magazine, the engineering journal of Quebec, in their last issue September-October 2018 has been dedicated to Pyrowave company, which was received the 2018 Genius Innovation Award from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ). This company was co-founded by Jamal Chaouki, Jucelyn Ducet, and Jean-Philippe Laviolette, head and alumni of PEARL. Pyrowave was awarded the OIQ's 2018 Genius Innovation Award for its cost effective waste-to-fee...

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Professor Jamal Chaouki Selected As The Best Chemical Engineering Researcher in Canada

June 18, 2018

News

Professor Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, won the  Jane Memorial Award 2018 due to his exceptional achievements to the field of chemical engineering and industrial chemistry. This is the CSChE's highest award, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. He is full professor from 1995 at Ecole Polytechnique of Montréal. He has supervised more than 80 Ph.D. and Master Students and more than 40 post-docs. The main areas of hi...

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PEARL PhD Candidate Won First Place of 3-minute Thesis Competition at CSChE Conference

November 13, 2017

News

Christine Beaulieu, a PhD candidate from PEARL, has won the first prize of 3-minute elevator pitch competition which happened during the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference 2017 in Edmonton, AB. Her work is about effect of segregation on heat transfer of granular materials in industrial mixers. In this two-round competition, she explained how we face segregation in our daily lives and how this phenomenon can affect the heat transfer efficien...

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