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14 January 2019
Solar fuels: 3D photonic sponges for enhanced CO2 valorization
Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Bordeaux and IFPEN have developed new catalytic materials capable of effectively harvesting the photons from solar irradiation
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02 December 2018
Hollow zeolites for increased catalytic efficiency
Zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicates that can be used for the manufacture of catalysts thanks to their physical and chemical properties and, in particular, their organized and regular microporous network, within which some of the catalytic reactions take place.
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09 October 2018
Céline Pagis, PhD researcher at IFPEN/IRCELYON, recipient of the L’Oréal-Unesco “For Women in Science” fellowship
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14 November 2017
The SCF’s Energy Inter Division has awarded the 2017 “Innovation Research Prize” to Charles-Philippe Lienemann
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01 June 2017
Catalysis: Kim Larmier, a PhD researcher at IFPEN, receives the highly prestigious EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award 2017
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Raman: the secret of a successful separation
The development and optimization of chemical processes increasingly involves the instrumentation of pilot and industrial units with inline effluent analysis technologies, capable of supplying relevant
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Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou : Scientific Woman of the Year – The 2014 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize
Scientific Woman of the Year – The 2014 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize: Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou, Head of research in the field of molecular catalysis at IFPEN
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Where aviation fuels are concerned... compromise is the name of the game
In the aviation sector, fuels derived from hydrotreated vegetable oils (HEFA a) are seen as an alternative to petroleum based Jet A-1 b to reduce the environmental footprint of air transport. However
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HTE in a milli-fixed bed reactor boosts the development of slurry catalysts
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Extrusion: playing the SAXS for success!
Alumina, the archetypal material used for hydrotreatment catalyst supports, has a porous structure at supramolecular scales, determining the transport of oil feeds within it. This structure is largely
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Boehmite rhapsody! Controlled precipitation
Transition aluminas a, widely used as catalyst supports, play a key role in numerous refining processes. Today, the need to develop new and more efficient catalysts demands, among other things, better
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Surface characterization at the right TEMPO
The value of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) resides in its capacity to supply information on the surface elementary composition (a few nm) and the chemical environment of the atoms probed
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ROCK sets the rhythm for catalyst activation
The development of more efficient hydrotreatment catalysts, based on molybdenum (Mo), requires advanced characterization methods that allow materials to be studied in conditions that match those of
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Infrared and SOLEIL: good vibrations under the microscope
Improving the reactional performance of a catalytic material (obtained by applying an active phase onto oxide grains) requires a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the reaction. More