Insulating fiberboards from the valorization of wood residues in French Guiana – PANTHER2-Guyane
In French Guiana, it is urgent to develop a biobased alternative to imported insulating products to ensure the construction of durable habitats in response to demographic pressure. The objective of the PANTHER project is to study a new valorisation model of Guyanese wood sector’s by-products for the production of insulating bio-materials. A perspective matching the ambitions of local actors, willing to shift toward a diversification of the uses of forest resources. After identifying the most promising processing route for the production of high-performance insulated fibreboards in a tropical environment, this project aims at model the impact of their implementation on the existing local productive system. The interdisciplinary of the involved partners and the innovative numerical tools developed to federate the acquired knowledge will enable the potential of this new value chain to be assessed as a whole.
Project coordination
Julie Bossu (Ecologie des forêts de Guyane)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partnership
Pprime Institut P' : Recherche et Ingénierie en Matériaux, Mécanique et Energétique
FRD-CODEM FIBRES RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT-CONSTRUCTION DURABLE ET ECOMATERIAUX
ESB ECOLE SUPERIEURE DU BOIS
ECOFOG Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
IMT Mines Alès PCH Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines d'Alès
I2M INSTITUT DE MECANIQUE ET D'INGENIERIE DE BORDEAUX
LEEISA Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systèmes amazoniens
Help of the ANR 827,739 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
- 48 Months
