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25 March 2019
CO2 CAPTURE: CLARIFYING CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION (CLC)
La combustion en boucle chimique, ou Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC), est un nouveau procédé prometteur permettant d’exploiter les énergies fossiles tout en captant le CO2 émis
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14 January 2019
Solar fuels: 3D photonic sponges for enhanced CO2 valorization
Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Bordeaux and IFPEN have developed new catalytic materials capable of effectively harvesting the photons from solar irradiation
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09 October 2018
Céline Pagis, PhD researcher at IFPEN/IRCELYON, recipient of the L’Oréal-Unesco “For Women in Science” fellowship
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14 November 2017
The SCF’s Energy Inter Division has awarded the 2017 “Innovation Research Prize” to Charles-Philippe Lienemann
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Gerhard PIRNGRUBER
Gerhard Pirngruber
Research scientist, Project Leader
Research scientist, Project Leader
I studied Technical Chemistry at the TU Vienne, Austria (1990-1995). After my graduation I moved to Twente University, Netherlands, as a PhD student (1995-1999). Under the supervision of Prof. Lercher
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Carlos NIETO-DRAGHI
Research Engineer / Project Manager
Carlos Nieto-Draghi (born in 1975) is a researcher and project manager in the Department of Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation at IFPEN. He has been working for many years on the development of
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Faujasite zeolite: a new generation is born
THESIS OF CÉLINE PAGIS, YVES CHAUVIN PRIZE 2019
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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
Post-doc position offer: https://emploi.ifpen.fr/offre-de-emploi/emploi-machine-learning-accelerated-identification-and-nmr-signatures-of-sugar-adsorption-on-sn-zeolites-h-f_2421.aspx After a PhD in
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For xylene separation, hierarchy is not all bad
The three xylene a isomers are each employed in numerous growth market applications (polymers, plastifiers and resins). It is thus vital to improve the efficiency of the separation processes for these
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Raman: the secret of a successful separation
The development and optimization of chemical processes increasingly involves the instrumentation of pilot and industrial units with inline effluent analysis technologies, capable of supplying relevant
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Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou : Scientific Woman of the Year – The 2014 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize
Scientific Woman of the Year – The 2014 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize: Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou, Head of research in the field of molecular catalysis at IFPEN
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Where aviation fuels are concerned... compromise is the name of the game
In the aviation sector, fuels derived from hydrotreated vegetable oils (HEFA a) are seen as an alternative to petroleum based Jet A-1 b to reduce the environmental footprint of air transport. However