Canadian researcher aims to create biofuel from pulp waste

In Canada, Lakehead University professor Pedram Fatehi has received a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in support of his process to produce biofuels from pulp paper waste. “We’re are not utilizing (that resource)î he says. ìWe are wasting it.”  He 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. The biofuels have a wide range of applications from powering jets to serving the the oil and mining industries, but they could especially benefit Canadian pulp mills in the northwest. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lakehead, Fatehi, who says he spends up to 40 hours a week on this research, in addition to his other projects.