Alexandre courchesne

MScA candidate
(Chemical Engineering Department - École Polytechnique de Montréal)
alexandre.courchesne@polymtl.ca

Expertise :

• Life cycle analysis on bioenergy, transport and agriculture
  
  

Start: September 2007
Director: Réjean Samson
Co-director: Louise Deschênes

Research project:

Biofuel Life Cycle Analysis : Methodology development aimed on carbon mitigation

Project summary:

Methodology development using LCA to analyse the environmental impacts of biofuel as a carbon mitigating technology.  The functional unit for the comparison of the different biofuel scenarios will be a 1 ton-year reduction compared to a fossil scenario.  The ton-year accounting calculates cumulative radiative forcing for a predetermined time period.

Publications/presentations:

Conference article (without lecture committee) : Comparison of the Carbon Offsetting Function of Seven Bioethanol Pathways using LCA. Alexandre Courchesne, Gontran Bage, Louise Deschênes, and Réjean Samson. Proceedings Ecobalance 2008

Presentation: Ecobalance 2008, Tokyo.  Comparison of the Carbon Offsetting Function of Seven Bioethanol Pathways using LCA. Alexandre Courchesne, Gontran Bage, Louise Deschênes, and Réjean Samson.

Career path:

Bachelor in Physical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal