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Pascal ALIX
Project Manager, Research Engineer
E-mail : pascal.alix@ifpen.fr
E-mail : pascal.alix@ifpen.fr
Pascal Alix studied Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer et Claude Bernard University (Lyon I), and then completed a PhD at the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne on the charactrization and the modelling
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Looping the chemistry for clean energy
Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is an airless combustion technology using oxygen carrier materials (OCM), which circulate between an oxidation and a reduction reaction zone. Separation into two
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Mix between kinetic and machine learning models
Having access to increasingly precise and robust extrapolation models to be able to predict certain properties a remains a major challenge for chemical processes industry. For widely used models, be
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In trickle bed reactor simulators, hydrodynamics count!
Improvements in chemical processes are regularly achieved as a result of the introduction of new internal geometries within reactors. Conventionally, fixed bed reactor models use an overly simple
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Extrapolating ethanol-from-biomass production technologies
The industrial production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass was demonstrated by the Futurol™ project a. The extrapolation and optimization of the process, along with its flexibility in terms of
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Ludovic RAYNAL
PhD. R&D Manager
Group Manager in Process Design
Group Manager in Process Design
Ludovic Raynal graduated in 1993 from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble”, France. After his PhD in Mechanical Engineering obtained from University of Grenoble, he spent one year as
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Frederic BLONDEL
Research engineer
Frédéric graduated with a PhD diploma in Fluid Mechanics from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2014. Since then, he works as a research engineer at IFPEN. Frédéric’s reasearch focuses on both the
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A digital twin for in silico experiments
The catalysts developed by IFPEN are often used in fixed-bed reactors where their grains are packed randomly. For testing them in pilot units, one of the challenges is to guarantee representativity at