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News 19 December 2019

New porous microstructure descriptors based on tortuosity and accessibility

IFP Energies nouvelles has developed new morphological descriptors for porous networks. The result of work carried out in partnership by two of its research divisions, they are hinged around the concepts of accessibility and tortuosity to describe paths within a material.

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Rémy MINGANT

Research Engineer, PhD in Electrochemistry
I am Rémy Mingant, an experienced research engineer at IFP Energies Nouvelles, specializing in corrosion, batteries, and materials. My journey is built upon a strong academic foundation, crowned by a
Issue 53 of Science@ifpen
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Deep learning in the field of thermodynamics

Reactive fluid transport simulation has multiple applications - flows in porous media, combustion, process engineering - and requires thermodynamic equilibrium calculations (also knows as “flash” calculations). However, these calculations can take a long time and, as they are involved in large numbers in the simulations carried out, in practice they limit the latter to systems containing few chemical species or to restricted time and space scales...
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Transfer learning for process optimization

IFPEN is a global leader in the development of catalysts and processes for clean fuel production. For these processes themselves to be eco-efficient1, it is necessary to optimize the coupling of catalysts with the operating conditions, as a function of the feedstocks used and the target specifications for the refined products. It is therefore useful to be able to draw on predictive models for the performance achieved, and machine learning can help improving these models...
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Digital porous materials: from the virtual to very real interest!

While macroscopic models combined with experimental analysis of porosity are well established for geometrically simple pores, hierarchized and disordered microstructures defy existing frameworks and call into question conventional interpretations. We proposed a digital framework to help overcome this challenge, taking into account morphology, connectivity and pore size distribution...
Issue 51 of Science@ifpen
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SC4 - New numerical approach for the characterization of virtual porous materials

Inside porous materials, physico-chemical phenomena such as matter transport, catalytic reactions and capillary effects are strongly influenced by the geometry of the pore networks, i.e., the degree of porosity, the distribution of pore sizes and their connectivity. (....) IFPEN and Saint Gobain Research Provence decided to tackle the problem differently, by exploring a new numerical approach...
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The in silico creation of molecular structures

What chemical engineer has never dreamed of having access to a tool that can directly identify a fluid (pure substance or mixture) on the basis of characteristics necessary to a given application context? This Holy Grail could become a reality thanks to the field of Chemoinformatics and its methods...
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Mathieu FERAILLE

Research engineer / project leader
Holder of an Engineering Graduate Degree in General Engineering from the "Ecole Polytechnique" (Palaiseau – France) and a Specialized Engineering Graduate Degree in Petroleum Engineering and Project
Science@ifpen - Issue 49
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Microfluidics and Chemoinformatics: a highly complementary approach to studying material/fluid compatibility

Pour de nombreuses applications industrielles, comme le recyclage chimique des plastiques, ou encore pour assurer la compatibilité entre polymères et nouveaux carburants, il est essentiel d’anticiper les interactions entre matériaux et fluides...
Impact of hydroclimatic and anthropological parameters on the dynamics of the Rhône delta
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Impact of hydroclimatic and anthropological parameters on the dynamics of the Rhône delta

Coastal sedimentary basins evolve under the effect of interactions between, on the one hand, hydroclimatic processes taking place in catchment areas, and on the other hand coastal marine processes that remodel the coastline. The evolution of these environments is naturally controlled by the climate, over different time periods (ranging from tens of years to thousands of years), through variations in sedimentary flows and erosion...
Cheminformatics and its descriptors: application to polymer/fluid compatibility
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Cheminformatics and its descriptors: application to polymer/fluid compatibility

Ensuring compatibility between polymers and fluids is essential in numerous industrial sectors: in the automotive sector, for example, the resistance of materials used in the fuel supply system is a vital consideration.