The research projects carried out by the Environmental Engineering axis
aim to understand phenomena and develop solutions to protect our environment and better manage resources. 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 and statistical analysis.
The research themes developed in this area concern the treatment and recovery of water, biomass and waste, the treatment and purification of gaseous effluents, the transport and storage of carbon dioxide, the reuse of water, the production of drinking water, the dispersion of pollutants (at sea, in the atmosphere), and the modeling of flows and forest fires.
The scientific approach combines various experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches. The processes studied are biological (aerobic and anaerobic), thermochemical (hydrothermal liquefaction, gasification, wet oxidation) and physicochemical (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 semi-industrial), energy, material and/or flow characterization methods, modeling (thermodynamic and/or numerical modeling), energy and statistical analyses.
