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27 May 2020
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06 January 2020
System Simulation of Combustion in Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition Engines
Future constraints on pollutant emissions pushed car manufacturers towards Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition (DI-SI) technologies to improve engine performances and reduce both fuel consumption and emissions.
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28 October 2019
An original modeling approach to help improve engine energy efficiency
Research conducted at IFPEN has led to the development of an original approach to overcome persistent challenges in the field of injection processes, based on a combination of CFD and real-fluid thermodynamics.
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20 June 2019
IFPEN-Lyon hosted Professor Edson Soares from Brazil, a specialist in non-Newtonian fluid rheology and mechanic
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25 - 26 April 2017
Workshop Particles & Fluids: from individual particle dynamics to collective effects and fluidized beds
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Gilles Bruneaux
Head of department, PhD in Energetics,
Optical Diagnostics for Engine Combustion specialist
Optical Diagnostics for Engine Combustion specialist
Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1992. PhD on combustion modeling in internal combustion engines at IFPEN/Ecole Centrale Paris, 1996. National accreditation to supervise research (HDR)
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Study of packings for natural gas treatment and CO2 capture columns (HDR 2019)
Employed in certain treatment equipment, such as industrial gas purification columns, structured packings are ordered stacks of corrugated metal sheets that promote contact between the gas and a
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Multiphase reactive flow simulation: developments and applications in the field of combustion (HDR 2015)
The scientific field concerned by my HDR research is the 3D numerical modeling of two-phase combustion, combining research on turbulent combustion and the preparation of the reactive mixture. Building
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Benoit NOETINGER
Dr B Noetinger, editor-in-chief STET https://www.stet-review.org/, expert in transport modeling in disordered media
Benoît Noetinger graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris, and holds a thesis at UPMC (now Sorbonne University) in liquid state physics, the work of which was carried out at the PMMH laboratory
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Pascal ALIX
Project Manager, Research Engineer
E-mail : pascal.alix@ifpen.fr
E-mail : pascal.alix@ifpen.fr
Pascal Alix studied Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer et Claude Bernard University (Lyon I), and then completed a PhD at the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne on the charactrization and the modelling
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Looping the chemistry for clean energy
Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is an airless combustion technology using oxygen carrier materials (OCM), which circulate between an oxidation and a reduction reaction zone. Separation into two
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Mix between kinetic and machine learning models
Having access to increasingly precise and robust extrapolation models to be able to predict certain properties a remains a major challenge for chemical processes industry. For widely used models, be
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In trickle bed reactor simulators, hydrodynamics count!
Improvements in chemical processes are regularly achieved as a result of the introduction of new internal geometries within reactors. Conventionally, fixed bed reactor models use an overly simple
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Extrapolating ethanol-from-biomass production technologies
The industrial production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass was demonstrated by the Futurol™ project a. The extrapolation and optimization of the process, along with its flexibility in terms of
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Ludovic RAYNAL
PhD. R&D Manager
Group Manager in Process Design
Group Manager in Process Design
Ludovic Raynal graduated in 1993 from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble”, France. After his PhD in Mechanical Engineering obtained from University of Grenoble, he spent one year as