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15 December 2020
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25 November 2020
The development of soot particles now better understood
Research conducted at IFPEN has established a reaction mechanism to describe a key step: the dimerization reaction. A new methodology now makes it possible to better predict the genesis of soot particles, helping to limit the associated health and environmental effects.
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13 November 2020
Shedding light on the external surface of zeolites by quantum calculation
Thanks to quantum modeling calculations conducted on the ZSM-5 zeolite, IFPEN’s research has nevertheless demonstrated the existence of a much larger variety of active sites on the surface than in the internal nanoporosity.
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11 May 2020
Spectroscopy and quantum calculations uncover the secrets of alumina supports
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11 February 2020
Molecular simulation to support geological hydrogen storage
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28 October 2019
An original modeling approach to help improve engine energy efficiency
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Reaction dynamics in zeolites under the quantum calculation spotlight
Zeolites are nanoporous solids widely used as acid catalysts for the conversion of hydrocarbon molecules. However, determining the rates of the elementary steps of reaction mechanisms...
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Metal nanoparticles living on the edge
Platinum nanoparticles supported on chlorinated γ-alumina are used in bifunctional heterogeneous catalysts, which are central to numerous industrial processes. An atomic-scale study...
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Two-phase flow simulations: all regimes are now accessible
Numerous technological applications requiring the use of numerical simulation involve complex two phase flows, as is the case with the engine injection context. Most calculation software...
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Véronique LACHET
Project manager, physical chemistry of complex fluids
Véronique Lachet received her Chemical Engineer degree (Chimie ParisTech, Paris) in 1995 and her PhD in Physical Chemistry (Paris Sud University, Orsay) in 1998. After a short postdoctoral stay
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Nicolas FERRANDO
Project manager / Research Engineer
Nicolas Ferrando is graduated of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Génie Chimique (Toulouse) with a Chemical Engineering master degree, followed by a PhD in Chemistry from Université Paris
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Jean-Charles DE HEMPTINNE
IFP-School Professor / PhD Chemical Engineering
Jean-Charles de Hemptinne graduated from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1985 with a Chemical Engineering degree followed by a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. In 2000, he defended a thesis
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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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Carlos NIETO-DRAGHI
Research Engineer / Project Manager
Carlos Nieto-Draghi (b. 1975) completed a Chemical Engineer degree at the Simón Bolívar University (Caracas, Venezuela) followed by a DEA and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineer and Processes at the Rovira i
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The ROAD4CAT chair one year in
The 1 st industrial chair within the IdexLyon project a, ROAD4CAT (RatiOnAl Design for CATalysis), launched in June 2018, brings together IFPEN and the Chemistry Laboratory at École Normale Supérieure
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Céline CHIZALLET
Project Leader, ab initio calculations for Catalysis
PhD position open in the group: https://theses.ifpen.fr/en/thesis/contribution-machine-learning-atomic-scale-simulations-dehydration-butanols-catalyzed-acidic After a PhD in heterogeneous catalysis