Jean-Charles de Hemptinne graduated from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1985 with a Chemical Engineering degree followed by a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. In 2000, he defended a thesis on "Thermodynamic methods in Petroleum engineering" at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 to receive accreditation to supervise research. He is a fellow of AIChE since 2021.
He joined IFP Energies nouvelles in 1991 as a Research Engineer in the Thermodynamics department. He has been a researcher and teacher since 2000. Nominated as IFP School Professor in 2009, and from 2010 to 2019 he was appointed to the Tuck foundation Chair of "Thermodynamics for biofuels". Since then, he is in charge of the EleTher Joint Industrial Project whose objective is to create community and define Best Practices for electrolyte thermodynamics applications. He is also chair holder of the AFI EleTher chair.
His research topic focuses on the development of tools (essentially equations of state) for correlating and predicting physical-chemical properties of fluid mixtures. He teaches applied thermodynamics to the IFP-School cycle ‘Energy and Processes’ and he is the IFP-School contact for the major in Catalysis and Processes within the track “Sustainable Industrial Processes” of the Chemistry Master delivered by Lille University.
Jean-Charles de Hemptinne is also a member of several scientific societies among which the SFGP and EFCE for which he is vice-chair of the working party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties. He has organized several international scientific conferences, ("Thermodynamics 2007" ; "InMoTher 2012" and ESAT 2021) and is the initiator of the IUT (Industrial Use of Thermodynamics) symposia that have been held in conjuction with either ESAT or ECCE meetings.
Jean-Charles de Hemptinne is author or co-author of 92 publications in refereed journals with a web of science H-factor of 32, and 3 IFP Energies nouvelles patents. He is the main author of the handbook entitled "How to select a thermodynamic model for process simulation: problem analysis in three steps".
2009-2018 : Tuck Foundation Chair on Thermodynamics of Fluids Originating from Biomass www.fondation-tuck.fr/jcms/kmo_10375/fr/chaire-thermodynamique
2020-2024: AFI Chair on Electrolyte Thermodynamics
2019-2022 : JIP EleTher (with Solvay, Bayer, BASF, Orano, BP, Nouryon, Neste) www.elether.fr
2022-2026 : JIP EleTher (with Syensqo, Bayer, BASF, Orano, Covestro, Neste, AspenTech, Hafnium Labs and ProSim) www.elether.fr
2019- 2023: ERC ElectroThermo (with DTU)
- de Hemptinne et al: "A view on the future of thermodynamics” (2022) IECR, Vol61, 39, 14664-14680
Thermodynamics is the science of the interactions between energy and matter. It was formalized in the late 19th century and remains an essential piece in solving many technological challenges that society faces today. Yet, it is often considered complex and challenging, perhaps because it is often taught within a rigid mathematical framework...
- Kontogeorgis et al. «Conclusions from Round Table Discussion during IUT of ESAT 2021 electrolyte thermodynamics challenges - From industrial needs to academic research” (2022) FluidPhase Eq, Vol 556, 113399
- de Hemptinne et al. : "Carnot: a thermodynamic library for energy industries" (2023) STET, Vol 78, art 30.