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Innovation and Industry
News 18 October 2022

Expert advice - Carbon sinks

A study by the ANCRE alliance on solutions to accelerate the development of carbon sinks in France towards carbon neutrality by 2050. Priority recommendations and categories of solutions, both natural and technological, are presented for carbon storage across various environments, from biomass to materials, including agricultural soils and urban environments.

Hydrogen
Innovation and Industry

Hydrogen
Hydrogen OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES Hydrogen is an energy vector that can act as a bridge between primary energy sources and end uses. It is considered to be an “energy transition vector” due to its potential to bring about a cleaner, more sustainable energy system across its entire value chain. Currently
Geothermal energy
Innovation and Industry

Geothermal Energy: Our strengths
Geothermal energy Our strengths - Skills and multidisciplinary expertise making it possible to contribute to all the building blocks in the geothermal energy value chain: • Geosciences, • Thermodynamics, • Geomechanics, • Fluid mechanics, • Physical chemistry, • Microbiology, • Process design and modeling, • Applied mathematics, digital technologies, •
Geothermal energy
Innovation and Industry

Geothermal Energy: Our networks
Geothermal energy Our networks Collaboration with the BRGM IFPEN works in close partnership with teams from the BRGM (French Geological and Mining Research Bureau), capitalizing on synergies and complementary expertise. The partners work together within the framework of French and European collaborative projects, sometimes focusing on other themes such as
Geothermal energy
Innovation and Industry

Geothermal Energy: Our solutions
IFPEN’s research is aimed at overcoming the technical and economic challenges hampering the industrial development of geothermal energy.
Geothermal energy
Innovation and Industry

Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES "Deep" geothermal energy, as opposed to surface geothermal energy, aims to harness the heat of the subsurface as a source of heating or electricity. These two objectives are achieved to varying degrees depending on the geographical area. Electricity generation The power required is such that
Wind energy
Innovation and Industry

Wind energy: Our strengths
wind energY Our strengths • More than 12 years’ experience in the field, with a team of around thirty FTE staff dedicated to wind energy, alongside 5 to 10 doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. • Active in several segments of the value chain, with packages aimed at wind energy development
Offshore wind and ocean energies
Innovation and Industry

Wind energy: Our solutions
IFPEN is contributing to the growth of the wind energy sector, from resource evaluation through to the development of efficient control systems. IFPEN is also contributing to the development of efficient wave energy technology that can be used by industry.
Offshore wind and ocean energies
Innovation and Industry

Wind energy: Our networks
wind energY Our networks IFPEN’s wind energy research is conducted within the context of an excellence network including industrial and academic partners: the Ancre alliance, the International Energy Agency’s Technological Cooperation Program, IEA Wind, in which IFPEN represents France on the Executive Committee and coordinates a task dedicated to the
Wind energy
Innovation and Industry

Wind energy
wind energY OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES The global development of wind energy is being driven by several factors: evolving technologies, a cost per kWh that is set to fall further, managed environmental impacts, the wider consultation of other users upstream of projects. There is significant potential in Europe to develop wind
Biogas
Innovation and Industry

Biogas: Our strengths
Biogas Our strengths Expertise in gas treatment applicable to biogas purification: see video (in French) with Julien Grandjean, research engineer at IFPEN.