Researcher aims to create biofuel from pulp waste

CBC News Posted: Jul 17, 2012 11:47 AM ET Last Updated: Jul 17, 2012 1:19 PM ET


Lakehead University professor receives grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

Research on creating biofuels out of mill waste products may create some new jobs in the pulp and paper industry.


Lakehead University professor Pedram Fatehi said he wants to generate environmentally friendly biofuels out of liquid waste produced by pulp mills — waste that's usually burnt off or diverted to treatment plants.
"We are not utilizing them,” Fatehi said. “We are wasting them."

The researcher recently received $120,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to work on the technology he is developing, which he said is the first of its kind in Canada.

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