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In anticipation of the annual Resource Recovery Partnership Workshop being held this June 6, WISE along with our partners at the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, the University of Waterloo and Lafarge are pleased to bring you a webinar exploring the concept of energy from waste. This hour long webinar will feature Guy Desautels, Lafarge Canada Inc. and Brian Lisk, Hawthorne Green Key Group.

Watch the webinar here.

Those who wish to join us at the University of Waterloo are encouraged to do so. We will be located in DC 1302 and welcome a live audience! Need Directions? Check out our interactive campus map!

Using the cement industry as an example of industrial fossil fuel based thermal energy use, the emerging role of lower carbon fuels from waste sources (e.g. railway ties) will be presented. The effect of various Canadian Provincial carbon pricing regimes will be compared. The information provided will assist researchers and fuel suppliers in determining the relative economic consequences due to carbon pricing when assessing different fuels and processing technologies.

An introduction to Tucker advanced pyrolysis technology illustrating the systems advantageous design to convert a multitude of wastes resulting in value added revenue streams, while addressing today’s mandates of lowering C0₂ emissions, increased waste diversion, and behind the meter opportunities.The Tucker system is a scalable, mobile, and modular unit that utilizes a new bio thermal process to produce high consistent production of reusable carbon and clean organic gas without filters and scrubbers. Municipal solid waste, woody biomass, coal, and agriculture waste are just some of the feed stock used in this process.

Guy Desautels earned his MBA from the University of Sherbrooke and is currently the AFR business development manager at Lafarge Holcim in the Geocycle division with 13 years of experience in the field of finalizing commercial agreements. In this role he develops business to supply fuel and alternative materials for various Lafarge Holcim cement plants in both Canada and the United States. As project initiator he is devoted to the recycling of residual materials while identifying on the market potential sources of products with high calorific value or chemical elements necessary for the production of cement. Other duties include technical follow-up of qualification analyses, participation in feasibility studies and implementation of selected projects.

Brian Lisk, has been involved in the waste sector for the past 8 years, with over 25 years in marketing, sales, development and growth of the lumber, manufacturing sector in the North America markets. His company, Hawthorne Green Key Group provides new cost effective energy addressing many of today's waste mandates reducing waste, C0₂ emissions, and  pollutants and provides alternative energy/reusable products to the global market. Hawthorne provides turnkey clean waste conversion solutions for a multitude of feed stocks through a innovative bio thermal closed loop process; the Tucker system.