Curriculum Vitae

  

Arnaud Dauriat
 

Environmental and Earth Resources Eng.
Postgraduate studies in Energy



Details :

 

 

Home address :

Professional address :

 

Av. Saint-Paul, 11

ENERS Energy Concept Ltd

Sexe : Male

Appt. 13-14

P.O. Box 56

French nationality

CH-1004 Lausanne

CH-1015 Lausanne

Born on March 7, 1975

Switzerland

Switzerland

in Agadir (Morocco)


Education

09/1998 - 08/2000

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Postgraduate studies in Energy
Technological specialization. Postmaster project on the potentialities of bioethanol introduction in Switzerland and China.
 

09/1994 - 06/1998

Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London, UK.
Environmental and Earth Resources Engineering (MEng)
First Degree with honours. Masters project on the modelling of heavy particles atmospheric dispersion.
 

09/1992 - 06/1994

Lycée Joffre, Montpellier, France.
Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles.
Mathématiques supérieures & spéciales, following a BAC C with honours.
 

Professional experience

10/2004 - ...

Creation of ENERS Energy Concept Ltd, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Director of the company, consulting engineer in energy and environment.
 
Lecturer at EPFL in 'Energy within buildings' (Civil Engineering, 4th year).
 

06/1998 - 09/2004

Laboratory of Energy Systems, ENAC, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Researcher/engineer in the field of bioenergy. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), modelling of energy systems and biofuels production schemes, energy balance.
 
Lecturer at EPFL in 'Energy within buildings' (Civil Engineering, 4th year) since 2001.
 

06/1997-09/1997

DATAMINE Software Ltd, Wells, UK.
Professional training for 3 months as a programmer. Project applied to coal washability. Computer languages C and Visual C++.
 

Languages

French/English

Fluent

German

School level (5 years at high school, 1987-1992), little practise for 10 years

Spanish/Italian

Intermediate (3 years à Imperial College, 1995-1998)
 

Specific skills

Specialist in biofuels and energy systems: Long experience in the evaluation of biofuels production schemes. Technical, economic and environmental assessment of energy systems. Process & chemical engineering.
 
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) / Eco-balance: Conformity to ISO 14040-49 LCA. Application of various impact assessment methods such as EcoIndicator '99, CML 2001, IMPACT 2002+, IPCC 2001, Cumulative Energy Demand. Application of various allocation methods. Use of EcoInvent database. Development of additional inputs in accordance with the ecoinvent structure. Long experience with LCA.
 
Modelling: Development of models aimed at evaluating the technical, economic and environmental performance of energy systems. Modelling tools: Microsoft ® Excel & Visual Basic, Java, Visual C++, ASPEN Plus ®, Berkeley Madonna ®.
 
Programming: Visual Basic, Perl, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Visual C++ (Microsoft Foundation Classes & Developer's Studio), HTML, Macromedia Flash.
 

Publications, conferences, seminars

Gnansounou E., Dauriat A., Wyman C.E. (2005). Refining sweet sorghum to ethanol and sugar: Economic trade-offs in the context of North China. In Bioresource Technology 96, pp. 985–1002.
 
Dauriat A. (2004). Alcosuisse: The Swiss bioethanol experience. Annual SETA meeting, September 27-28, Kefalonia, Greece.
 
Sarlos G., Dauriat A. (2003). Energy: A Challenge for Humanity in the 21st Century. In Proceedings of International Conference on Energy and the Environment, December 11-13, Shanghai, China.
 
Dauriat A., Gnansounou E., Sarlos G. (2003). Bioethanol: A sustainable alternative to oil in the transportation sector. In Proceedings of International Conference on Energy and the Environment, December 11-13, Shanghai, China.
 
Vesovic V., Auziere A., Dauriat A., Calviac G. (2001). Modelling of the dispersion and deposition of coarse particulate matter under neutral atmospheric conditions. In Atmosph. Env. 35 (S1), pp. 99-105.
 
Dauriat A., Vesovic V. (1999). Modelling dispersion of heavy particulate matter, in Air Pollution VIII, Eds. Brebbia C.A., Jacobson M. & Power H., pp. 843-852, WIT Press, Southampton, UK.
 

Projects, reports

ASIATIC project (2002-2004). Agriculture and small to medium scale industries in peri-urban areas through ethanol production for transport in China. EU 5th framework programme, INCO-DEV.
 
BIOMASS project (2004). Potential of biomass for energy purposes: Technology status and perspectives of fuel-alcohol. Prepared by the LASEN. Mandate of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
 
EREP project (2004). Energy from cheese whey: Comparison of biogas and bioethanol production from cheese whey. Prepared by EREP SA and the LASEN. Mandate of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
 
ALCOSUISSE project (2002-2004). Comparative life cycle analysis of vehicle fuels. LASEN reports 420.100 & 415.105. Mandate of Alcosuisse.
 
IAG project (2001). Potentialities of biofuels at the Geneva Airport. LASEN reports 140.105 (executive summary) & 140.104 (final report). Mandate of the International Airport of Geneva.
 
SFOE project (2000). Characterization of bioethanol production schemes in the Swiss context. LASEN report 140.102. Mandate of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
 
LASBIOC project (2000). ETBE as an additive to gasoline: A niche for the development of bioethanol in China (Case of Shanghai). LASEN report 415.100. SETA programme.
 
GAZOBOIS project (2000). State of the art of wood gasification. LASEN report 140.103. Mandate of the Sustainable Development Group of EPFL.
 
Postgraduate Studies in Energy, diploma report, A. Dauriat (2000). Penetration potentialities of new ethanol production routes from lignocellulosic biomass.
 
Environmental & Earth Resources Engineering, diploma report, A. Dauriat (1998). Particle dispersion modelling: Modelling of the motion of coarse particles in the atmosphere.
 

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