Electrochemistry and corrosion

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News 29 April 2021

Corrosion, one of the major challenges of the energy transition, has been the focus of significant research at IFPEN

Fundamental Research

Events 03 - 04 November 2020

Web Conference on Corrosion in Low Carbon Energie

Within the academic and industrial corrosion community, the aim of this workshop is to provide the opportunity to exchange information and identify the scientific challenges to be solved in order to mitigate the corrosion issues in the new and developing fields of low carbon energies.

Launch of the fugacity jip on hydrogen penetration in steel

Fundamental Research

News 19 April 2019

Launch of the fugacity JIP on hydrogen penetration in steel

Lancement du JIP Fugacity de recherche fondamentale sur la pénétration de l’hydrogène issu du processus de corrosion dans les aciers en présence de CO2 et H2S

Fundamental Research

News 01 May 2017

ESAT 2017 / Saifuddin Ahmed, a PhD researcher was awarded the Helmut Knapp prize

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Jean KITTEL

Materials & Corrosion Technical Advisor, Project manager
PhD in Electrochemistry

> 20 years experience in Materials and Corrosion. Materials Engineer from INSA de Lyon, 1997. PhD in Eectrochemistry (Paris 6), 2001. Habilitation from INSA de Lyon, 2011. Member of Cefracor / EFC /

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François ROPITAL

Research engineer – Project leader

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

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An explosive cocktail for steel fracture?

THESIS OF MARTIEN DUVALL DEFFO AYAGOU

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Carbon steel in self-defense mode against corrosion

Carbon or low-alloy steel corrosion, by aqueous media containing CO2, hampers the development of numerous technologiesa for the energy transition. Among the electrochemical processes involved, the