annie levasseur

PhD candidate
(Chemical Engineering Department - cole Polytechnique de Montral)
annie.levasseur@polymtl.ca

Expertise :

• Life Cycle Assessment Methodology
• Wastewater Treatment
• Crude Oil Refining Processes
  
  

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

Research project:

Development of a Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment Methodology

Project summary:

Actual life cycle assessment methodology ignores the time distribution of the studied life cycle processes. Inventory results contain aggregated mass loadings, representing the sum of several amounts of each pollutant emitted by different processes dispersed in space and time. These aggregated values are then used to determine the potential impacts on the environment of each of the pollutant released. The absence of temporal resolution in LCA is often presented as one of its limits. Emissions aggregation in life cycle inventory implies that one single emission is assumed to have the same impacts as a series of dispersed emissions as long as the total amount of pollutant is the same in both cases. The objective of this project is to develop a dynamic LCA methodology where inventory results would be function of time instead of aggregated values and where impact assessment would take into account the dynamic profile of the inventory.

Publications/presentations:

Levasseur, A., Bage, G., Deschênes, L. et Samson, R. (2008) The basics of dynamic LCA development. The 8th International Conference on Ecobalance, Tokyo, Japon, December 10-12, 2008, 4 p.

Levasseur, A., Bage, G., Deschênes, L. et Samson, R. (2008) Challenges and opportunities of developing dynamic LCA. 2nd International Seminar on Society and Materials, Nantes, France, April 24-25, 2008, 10 p.

Career path:

September 2007
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (in process)
CIRAIG, École Polytechnique de Montréal

May 1999 – August 200t
Petro-Canada, Montreal Refinery
Production Engineer (Reforming and Aromatics, Wastewater Treatment and Utilities)
LP Coordinator (Production Control)
Crude and Asphalt Coordinator (Production Control)

September 1995 – May 1999
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, environnement
École Polytechnique de Montréal