François Ropital is a Materials Engineer from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon (1980), Doctor of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in Chemical Engineering (1984) and HDR from the University of Paris VI in Applied Chemistry and Industrial Process Engineering (2002).
He works at IFP Énergies nouvelles on the behavior of materials for energy technologies within the Applied Physico-Chemistry and Mechanics Department. From 2010 to 2015 Francois Ropital was editor-in-chief of the review "Oil and Gas Science and Technology - Revue d'IFP Energies nouvelles".
Since 2016, co-animator of the scientific lock "Study of reaction mechanisms on an adapted scale" of IFPEN fundamental research.
Since 2019, he is associate university Professor (PAST) at INSA-Lyon, Mateis Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
He is the author of 2 books, 13 book chapters, more than 68 peer-reviewed publications and 20 patents.
- Protectivity of corrosion deposits in an aqueous medium containing CO2 with ANDRA and INSA-Lyon
- FUI 2015-2020 ValCO2II project for CO2 valorisation
- Coordinator ANR Project 2021 CE05-00024 GeoSteelCor
F. Bertin, G.R. Joshi, J. Kittel, C. Sagnard, F. Ropital, M. Martinez, C. Bosch, K. Wolski, Electrochemical impedance response of a thick and porous calcium carbonate layer deposited by thermal growth on a carbon steel electrode, Corrosion Science, 227 (2024) 111778 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2023.111778
J. Owen; D. Burkle, E. Basilico, S. Marcelin, F. Ropital; G.R. Joshi; J. Kittel; A. Kleppe, R.C. Woollam, R. Barker, In situ SR-XRD analysis of corrosion product formation during ‘pseudo-passivation’ of carbon steel in CO2-containing aqueous environments, Corrosion Science, 225 (2023) 111598,
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2023.111598
J. Owen; F. Ropital; G.R. Joshi; J. Kittel; R. Barker, Galvanic effects induced by siderite and cementite surface layers on carbon steel in aqueous CO2 environments, Corrosion Science, 2022-10, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110762
F. Andari, J. Kittel, J. Fernandes, N. Godin, B. Ter-Ovanessian, F. Ropital, High temperature corrosion in various grades of vegetable and waste oils used for bio-fuel production, Corrosion Science, 2022, Vol 206, Article 110501, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110501
R. Bender, D. Féron, D. Mills, St. Ritter, R. Bäßler, D. Bettge, I. De Graeve, A. Dugstad, S. Grassini, T. Hack, M. Halama, E.H.Han, T. Harder, G. Hind | J. Kittel, R. Krieg, C. Leygraf , L. Martinelli, A. Mol, D. Neff, J.O. Nilsson, I. Odnevall, S. Paterson, S. Paul, T. Prošek , M. Raupach, R. I. Revilla, F. Ropital, H. Schweigart, E. Szala, H. Terryn, J. Tidblad, S. Virtanen, P. Volovitch. D. Watkinson, M. Wilms, G. Winning, M. Zheludkevich, Corrosion challenges towards a sustainable society, Materials and Corrosion, 2022, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.202213140
E. Basilico, S. Marcelin, R. Mingant , J. Kittel, M. Fregonese, J. Owens, R. Barker, A. Neville, F. Ropital, Effect of O2 contamination on carbon steel pseudo-passive scales in CO2 aqueous solutions, Corrosion Science, 2022, Vol 205, Article 110388 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110388
E. Basilico, S. Marcelin, R. Mingant , J. Kittel, M. Fregonese, F. Ropital, The effect of chemical species on the electrochemical reactions and corrosion product layer of carbon steel in CO2 aqueous environment: A review, Materials and Corrosion, 2021, 1, 16
https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.202012118
A. Kumar, F. Ropital, T. de Bruin,B. Diawara, Effects of Surface Orientations of Cr2O3 on CO2 Adsorption: a DFT approach, Applied Surface Science, 2020, Volume 59, 147127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147127
R.de Motte, E. Basilico, R. Mingant , J. Kittel, F. Ropital, P. Combrade, , S. Neicib,, V. Deydier, D. Crusset,, S. Marcelin, A study by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and surface analysis of corrosion product layers formed during CO2 corrosion of low alloy steel, Corrosion Science, 2020 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2020.108666
M. Nicoli, M. Trueba, S.Trasatti, M.P. Casaletto, F. Grosjean, J. Kittel, F. Ropital, High temperature oxidation evaluation using crystal microbalance, Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/1478422X.2020.1732122
R. de Motte, R. Mingant, J. Kittel, F. Ropital, P. Combrade, S. Necib, V. Deydier, D. Crusset, Near Surface pH Measurements in Aqueous CO2 Corrosion, Electrochemica Acta, 2018, 290, 605-615 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.09.117