The research is conducted in the current context of climate change, the circular economy, and the ecological and energy transition, and responds to the main Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6 “clean water and sanitation”, SDG 7 “clean and affordable energy”, SDG 12 “responsible consumption and production”).
The scientific disciplines involved are
- Process engineering
- Fluid mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Statistical analysis
The research themes developed in this area focus on :
- Water, biomass and waste treatment and valorization
- Treatment and purification of gaseous effluents
- Carbon dioxide transport and storage
- Water reuse and drinking water production
- Pollutant dispersion (at sea, in the atmosphere)
- Flow and forest fire modeling
The scientific approach combines various experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches.
The processes studied are :
- Biological processes (aerobic and anaerobic)
- Thermochemical processes (hydrothermal liquefaction, gasification, wet oxidation)
- Physicochemical processes (precipitation, adsorption, desorption)
- Membrane separation processes (microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, pervaporation)
- Supercritical CO2 and pressurized hot water extraction processes
The methods used and/or developed combine experimental approaches at different scales (laboratory and industrial pilot), energy, material and/or flow characterization methods, modeling (thermodynamic and/or numerical modeling), energy and statistical analyses.
