Workshop Presentations Available

Joint Workshop with ETSAP 1 December 2025:

Industrial decarbonization through non-energy changes (process chemistry, material efficiency and innovative pathways)

On 1 December, a joint ETSAP-IETS TCP online workshop was organised. This was a follow-up event to the workshop held on 10 April 2025. Below you’ll find the programme and presentations from this recent event. Two more follow-up events are planned. More information about the workshop series can be found at the event page.

Programme and Presentations

Welcome Address

• Kathleen Vaillancourt (presentation)
  ETSAP TCP Operating Agent and Founder and President of ESMIA Consultants, Canada
• Johanna Mossberg (presentation)
  IETS TCP Chair and Head of Bioeconomy Arena at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

TIMES Crash Course – Basics of the TIMES modelling platform
Kathleen Vaillancourt, ETSAP (presentation)

Modelling basics for synfuels, plastics, and their bio alternatives
Etienne Bernier, Natural Resources Canada (presentation)

Short presentations on Petrochemicals, Synfuels and CCU

IETS Task XI as a Modelling Data Source for Biorefinery Systems and Beyond
Marzouk Benali, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager, Natural Resources Canada (presentation)

Quantitative Modelling of India’s Petrochemical Industry for Strategic Planning
Bhawna Chauhan, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India (presentation)

Modelling Carbon-Circular Decarbonisation Pathways for the Secunda CTL Facility – Using the South African TIMES Framework
Nosaibeh Nosrati-Ghods, University of Cape Town, South Africa (presentation)

Integrated Techno-Economic and Infrastructure Modeling for Cost-Optimized Hydrogen Production and Transmission
Sukriti Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India (presentation)