Process Engineer Merinov
Francis Desilets-Mayer is a process engineer working for Merinov. Merinov is a research centre, and a technological transfer office created to help the fisheries and aquaculture sectors of Quebec, a province of Canada. The company completes more than 170 industrial research projects yearly. These are realized by a team of about 100 employees and may range from environmental monitoring to seafood plant improvement. Most projects take advantage of Merinov’s extensive facilities, which include an agri-food pilot plant, a chemical analysis laboratory, an experimental sea field, an industrial kitchen, a fish farm, as well as a range of small vessels.
Francis is responsible for developing multiple seafood waste processing technologies, from lab scale to pilot run. These processes currently target sea cucumber, various bivalves, whelks, multiple species of finfish, brown seaweed, and more importantly, crustaceans. He is also part of a team that designs and evaluates commercial-scale seafood processing lines and aquaculture facilities.
He did his Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering in Calgary and his Master of Applied Science in electrochemical engineering at the University of British-Columbia. During his studies, he mostly worked on electrochemical conversion technologies, notably systems that convert carbon dioxide into useful products.
