Anne-marie boulay
MScA candidate
(Chemical Engineering Department - cole Polytechnique de Montral)
anne-marie.boulay@polymtl.ca
Expertise :
- Water use impact assessment
Start: January 2008
Director: Louise Deschênes
Co-director: Réjean Samson
Research project:
Life cycle assessment of regional Impacts from Water Use and case study application in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Project summary:
This project proposes a first initiative at evaluating the direct and indirect impacts of the water consumption of the pulp and paper industry on the environment. Direct impacts include power needed for pumping and heating, pollutant emissions in outflow and use of water treatment chemicals. Indirect impacts, however, are linked to the consequences of water use making the ressource unavailable to downstream users, who have to turn towards different compensation scenarios or are directly affected by the water shortage, depending on the regional context.
In order to assess the spatial variability of these impacts in an LCA, socio-economic factors and compensation scenarios have to be identified and modeled with respect to their geographical location. These two types of impacts will be quantified and illustrated using a case study of the pulp and paper industry, where the impacts of the activities of a plant operating at two different water efficiencies will be quantified with the aim of providing a methodology and a set of indicators to assess the avoided burdens linked to the reduction of water consumption.
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Career path:
Analyst, EHS Compliance and Management Systems – ÉEM, 2007
Environmental Intern – General Motors of Canada, 2004-2005
Environmental Engineering Minor – Université Montpellier II, 2002-2003
Bacc. Chemical Engineering – McGill University, 2000 - 2006