Sarah Meunier

Sarah is the Director of First-Year Engineering and a Teaching Stream Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Her research fields involve using ultraviolet reactors as an alternative technology to prevent contamination incidents in the biopharmaceutical industry and the development of enzymatic packed bed reactors for biodiesel production. She holds a computing technology degree along with her chemical engineering degrees, and enjoys using computer software to solve chemical engineering problems.

• Ultraviolet irradiation
• Biopharmaceutical sterilization
• Enzymatic packed-bed reactors
• Biocatalytic biodiesel production
• Sol-gel enzyme immobilization
• Photocatalysis

• 2013, Doctorate of Philosophy, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2006, Master of Applied Science, Chemical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
• 2004, Bachelor of Applied Science, Chemical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
• 2004, Bachelor of Science, Computing Technology, University of Ottawa, Canada

• CHE 102 - Chemistry for Engineers
  • Taught in 2024

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• Toffolo, Kayden, Sarah Meunier, and Luis Ricardez-Sandoval. "Optimal operation of a large-scale packed bed chemical-looping combustion process using nonlinear model predictive control." Fuel 357 (2024): 129876.
• Boegel, S. J., M. Gabriel, M. Sasges, B. Petri, M. R. D’Agostino, A. Zhang, J. C. Ang, M. S. Miller, S. M. Meunier, and M. G. Aucoin. "Robust evaluation of ultraviolet-C sensitivity for SARS-CoV-2 and surrogate coronaviruses." Microbiology Spectrum 9, no. 2 (2021): e00537-21.
• Gabriel, Michelle A., Emma V. Dare, Sarah M. Meunier, J. Larry Campbell, Michael R. Sasges, and Marc G. Aucoin. "Ultraviolet irradiation of trypsin, lysozyme and β-galactosidase: how does UVC affect these enzymes when used as a secondary barrier against adventitious agents?." Vaccine 37, no. 43 (2019): 6518-6525.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Michael R. Sasges, and Marc G. Aucoin. "Evaluating ultraviolet sensitivity of adventitious agents in biopharmaceutical manufacturing." Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 44, no. 6 (2017): 893-909.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Hamid-Reza Kariminia, and Raymond L. Legge. "Immobilized enzyme technology for biodiesel production." Advances in biofeedstocks and biofuels 2 (2017): 67-106.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Biljana Todorovic, Emma V. Dare, Afroza Begum, Simon Guillemette, Andrew Wenger, Priyanka Saxena, J. Larry Campbell, Michael Sasges, and Marc G. Aucoin. "Impact of dissolved oxygen during UV-irradiation on the chemical composition and function of CHO cell culture media." Plos one 11, no. 3 (2016): e0150957.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Amin R. Rajabzadeh, Trevor G. Williams, and Raymond L. Legge. "Methyl oleate production in a supported sol–gel immobilized lipase packed bed reactor." Energy & Fuels 29, no. 5 (2015): 3168-3175.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Amin R. Rajabzadeh, and Raymond L. Legge. "Kinetic modelling of the production of methyl oleate by Celite® supported lipase sol–gels." Biochemical engineering journal 85 (2014): 63-70.
• Meunier, Sarah M., and Raymond L. Legge. "Study of support materials for sol-gel immobilized lipase." Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 31, no. 4 (2013): 190-196.
• Meunier, S. M., and R. L. Legge. "Evaluation of diatomaceous earth supported lipase sol–gels as a medium for enzymatic transesterification of biodiesel." Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic 77 (2012): 92-97.
• Meunier, Sarah M., and Raymond L. Legge. "Evaluation of diatomaceous earth as a support for sol–gel immobilized lipase for transesterification." Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic 62, no. 1 (2010): 53-57.
• Meunier, Sarah M., Joanne Gamage, Zdravko Duvnjak, and Zisheng Zhang. "Design and characterization of a novel rotating corrugated drum reactor for wastewater treatment." International Journal of Photoenergy 2010 (2010).