CTRI’s mission is to support businesses and the socio-economic community in the forestry, agricultural and mining sectors in their efforts to recover industrial waste and its underutilized resources. The organization also helps businesses with their environmental remediation initiatives in order to increase their competitiveness. CTRI takes part in exploring, identifying, and proposing innovative solutions valorizing industrial waste and underutilized natural resources by accelerating the implementation of environmentally responsible and business practices.
With a multidisciplinary team and more than forty thousand square feet of space, the CTRI carries out more than $3 million annually in applied research dedicated to Québec companies. In addition to its two pilot mineral processing plants, the CTRI has five laboratories representing the centre's various business areas. The centre’s principle areas of focus are the decontamination of industrial environments, the recovery of waste materials and underutilized resources within a circular economy perspective.
- Advanced characterization of residual biomass
- Chemical and microbiological analysis and characterization
- Decontamination and revegetation of sites disturbed by industrial activity.
- Development and optimization of ore processing methods on a semi-industrial scale
- Establishment of scientific protocols
- Thermochemical valuation of biomass
- Treatment of industrial and mining effluents by physical chemical and biological technologies.
- Treatment paths of contaminated biomass waste
Chemistry / Microbiology / Molecular biology sector
- Atomic absorption, graphite furnace and flame
- Autoclaves
- Calorimetry bomb
- Centrifuge refrigerated tubes of 50ml and 15ml
- Centrifuge tubes of 1.5ml
- CHNS/O analyzer
- Fermentors for alcoholic fermentation
- Fluorescence X-ray spectrometer
- GC/MS-FID
- HPLC Chromatograph
- Imaging system for agarose gel
- Incubator agitator
- Incubators
- Infrared spectrometer (DRIFT)
- Ionic chromatograph
- Laminar flow hood
- Micro volume spectrometer
- Microwave plasma atomic emission spectrometer (MP-AES: metal analysis)
- Microwave reactor
- Solid phase fermenter
- TGA thermogravimetric analyzer coupled with a GC-MS
- Thermocycler for quantitative real-time PCR (2)
- Total Carbon Analyzer, Organic Carbon, Inorganic carbon (TOC)
- UV-Visible spectrometer
Forestry sector
- Analysis line of gaseous emissions
- Biomass flail dryer
- Continuous biomass roasting pilot (250 kg / h)
- Continuous granulation pilot (250 kg / h)
- Crushing and sieving biomass line
- Mobile biomass shredder
- Pilot for physical and chemical biochar activation
Mining / water treatment sector
- Biological treatment: UASB pilot, MBBR, RBC, sequential fermenters, STR.
- Chemical treatment: ozonizer, UV treatment, advanced oxidation.
- Electrochemical treatment.
- Gravimetric separator (ores)
- High density mud driver (HDS).
- Jar-Test
- Magnetic separator (ores)
- Mineral processing pilot (50 kg/h)
- Physical treatment: pilot ion exchange, stripping, reverse osmosis, nano-filtration.
- Semi-industrial mineral processing plant
- 433, boulevard du Collège, Rouyn-Noranda, H1G 2J6
- 819 762-0931
- Yves Drolet
- General Manager
- 819 762-0931, ext. 1240
- yves.drolet@cegepat.qc.ca
