Director of Pulp & Paper Centre, NSERC Industrial Research Chair in the Role of Inorganics in the Industrial Processing of Woody Biomass, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Contact
- Phone: (416) 978-4318
- Email: nikolai.demartini@utoronto.ca
Areas of Expertise
- Investigating the role and fate of inorganics in the industrial processing of woody biomass with an emphasis on energy efficiency and emissions
- Scaling in spent liquor evaporators and trace metals in alkaline solutions in the pulp and paper industry
- The forms and release of inorganics during thermal conversion
Current Projects
- Reducing variability in soap recovery
- Image classification of the furnace bed volume in recovery boilers
- CFD modeling of smelt dissolving tanks – The effect of operational and dimensional parameters on smelt distribution, cooling and dissolution
- CFD modeling of biomass and hydrogen flames in the lime kilns of kraft pulp mills