Focus on...

Issues and Foresight

Energy storage

Energy storage consists in preserving a quantity of energy produced for later use. The idea is to ensure a balance between energy production and consumption, reduce losses and, hence, optimize costs. Electricity storage Thermal storage
Issues and Foresight

Reducing the carbon footprint of industry: CO2 capture, use and storage

CO 2 capture, use and storage (CCUS) technology consists in capturing CO 2 from its source of production, using it and storing it in an underground facility. It is of interest to industrial players since it would enable them to significantly reduce their CO 2 emissions . But this promising
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our networks

Plastics recycling Our networks Axelera competitiveness cluster The chemical recycling of plastics is an important theme for the Axelera competitiveness cluster, of which IFPEN is a founding member. Petcore Europe Association, based in Brussels, representing the complete PET value chain in Europe AC2R The role of the Association alliance chimie
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

Plastics recycling Our strengths IFPEN applies its long-standing expertise in a variety of specific areas to the chemical recycling of plastics: • chemicals and chemical engineering, • catalysis (homogeneous, heterogeneous), • analysis, • process engineering, • dimensioning of pilot units. This expertise has already been demonstrated via IFPEN’s achievements in
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our solutions

Plastics recycling Our solutions • Dissolution • Depolymerization • Conversion Back in the 1990s, with the increasingly widespread use of PET as a food packaging material, IFPEN launched its first research projects focusing on recycling via depolymerization. But mechanical recycling technologies were sufficient at the time to meet the sector’s
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Plastics recycling

Plastics recycling Overview and challenges Plastics are widely used in a number of applications: packaging, building, vehicles, household appliances, agriculture, etc. The constant increase in their production goes hand in hand with a corresponding increase in the amount of plastic waste . The environmental challenges associated with this waste, as
Climate, environment and circular economy
Innovation and Industry

Climate, environment and circular economy

New R&I themes, stimulated by the energy transition and circular economy markets, are beginning to emerge. The multidisciplinarity of IFPEN’s researchers is used in projects covering fields as diverse as CO 2 capture/storage and plastics recycling, addressing the problems of industry. CO 2 capture, utilization and storage Plastics recycling Environmental
Critical metals and rare earths
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

metal recycling Our strengths More than 15 years’ experience in R&I on batteries (simulation/dimensioning), and laboratory-based development of next-generation batteries (Li-S, SSB) Utilization of our expertise, acquired at industrial level over more than 40 years on processes similar to CAM production. The development of R&D skills on closed-loop recycling solutions
Life cycle analysis (LCA)
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

Life cycle analysis (LCA) Our strengths A dedicated team of Life Cycle Analysis engineers/PhD graduates with expertise covering the entire energy and transport value chain, supported by a team of young researchers working in partnership with specialist LCA laboratories (Elsa Montpellier, CIRAIG Canada, etc.). Close ties with R&D teams making
Life cycle analysis (LCA)
Innovation and Industry

Our networks

Life cycle analysis (LCA) Our networks SCORELCA « We are partners of the SCORELCA network, a cooperative LCA and environmental quantification research structure created on the initiative of some leading French companies (EDF, Engie, Renault, Saint-Gobain, TotalEnergies and Veolia), with the support of ADEME. Its objectives are to : define