Didier Haillot is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ecole de technologie supérieure de Montréal and co-director of the Nunavik OHMI.
He is interested in understanding thermal and thermodynamic phenomena in complex energy systems.
To do so, his research combines experimentation and modeling.The fields of application are multifunctional materials, solar thermal and photovoltaic, energy storage and management of agricultural areas in controlled environments, especially in northern territories.
Within OHMI Nunavik, he is involved in two projects :
The first one concerns the energy improvement of northern greenhouses in order to initiate a response to the problem of food insecurity in the Arctic climate (collaboration with Stéphane Gibout UPPA since 2016). Several students have worked on this topic including P. Piché (PhD in 2021 and postdoctorate in 2022). A thermal storage system adapted to northern constraints (local materials, low maintenance) has been installed in the Kuujjuaq community greenhouse. An improved replica of this system has been made in Radisson. Its coupling with a solar field is under study (master's degree of T. Maheux in progress, direction Didier Haillot and Stéphane Gibout).
The second began in 2022, it is the interdisciplinary program ENERGON "Energy transitions and reconfigurations of socio-ecosystems: mobilizing the OHM to produce an integrated methodology". It brings together 6 OHM and 23 researchers and teacher-researchers from three major interdisciplinary groups: social sciences (14), environmental sciences (5) and science and technology (4). Within the framework of this project, M. Haillot supervises the master's degree of R. Chaubier in co-direction with T. Meyer of the University of Haute Alsace.
Personnal websites :
https://www.etsmtl.ca/recherche/professeurs-chercheurs/dhaillot/
http://latep.univ-pau.fr/live/projets-collaborations/steep