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Fundamental Research
News 05 April 2024

Made-to-measure reactors for bio-based hybrid catalysis

In the 21st century, the challenge of the ecological transition is requiring the chemicals industry to develop innovative processes in line with environmental, energy and societal constraints. There is a dual challenge here: - new conversions need to be developed using renewable resources, the reactivity of which has yet to be fully mastered on a large scale; - researchers need to design and propose innovations to make these conversions more efficient and less energy intensive. The second aspect concerns processes and requires researchers to consider various avenues for progress: new reactors, reduction in the number of steps, combination of catalysts, etc.

Fundamental Research
News 18 March 2024

Microfluidics et chemoinformatics : complementary approaches to access thermal conductivity !

Thermal conductivity is a key property for the dimensioning of numerous types of equipment, such as exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one heat-carrying fluid to another, without mixing them. Thesis work conducted at IFPEN [1] is challenging the approaches traditionally employed for both measuring and predicting this property.

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