Loïc FAVERGEON

  • Email favergeon@mines-stetienne.fr
  • Phone +33 4 77 42 02 93
  • Capacity Responsable du département PTSI (SPIN)
  • Centre Centre for Chemical Engineering -
  • Department Procédés de Transformations des Solides et Instrumentation (PTSI)
  • Site Campus of Saint-Étienne
    158, cours Fauriel, Saint-Étienne
  • Office C1-04
  • Responsibilities and Duties

    Head of PTSI department, SPIN centre
    Head of the SURF group, Georges Friedel Laboratory (CNRS UMR 5307)
    Elected member of the Executive Committee of AFCAT

  • Research Topics

    Solid-gas reactivity
    Heterogeneous kinetics
    Thermal analysis
    Multi-scale modeling
    Reactor design

  • Teaching Areas

    I teach at undergraduate and graduate levels the following courses: thermal reactivity of solids and kinetic modelling, nuclear physics and nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle.
    I’m co-responsible for “energy transition” course where students find keys to understand the production and use of different types of energy and be presented with the elements necessitating energy transition and possible ways of organizing it.
    I’m also in charge of a multi-disciplinary project called workshop skills, where the students learn the basic culture and to use and manage tools and techniques made available to them in a given field.

  • Biography

    After a PhD thesis devoted to chemical transformation of solids, I’ve started my research activities at Mines Saint-Etienne in the field of heterogeneous kinetics applied to chemical engineering. Especially I developed an original multi-scale expertise applied to solid-gas reactors by coupling heterogeneous kinetics with heat and mass transfer inside a porous medium.
    Based on experimental skills (thermal analysis, divided solids characterization) and theoretical concepts (heterogeneous kinetics). It was applied to several industrial fields such as the nuclear fuel cycle, ore processing, building materials, materials reprocessing, SCR, heat storage, CO2 capture…
    I have coordinated the teaching activities dedicated to Chemical Engineering at Mines Saint-Etienne during four years, including ICM, Masters of Science and Apprenticeship Continuing Education master degrees. I’m now co-responsible of the education program for the Nuclear Engineering Master’s degree delivered by Mines Saint-Etienne in connection with ISTP.

  • Education

    Habilitation degree in Chemical Engineering from Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France (2015)
    Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France (2006)
    M.Sc. in Nanotechnology from Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (2002)
    B.Sc. in Chemical Physics from Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (2001)

  • Career History

    Visiting researcher 3 months at Univ. Hiroshima (Japan), 2 months at Univ. Bath (UK), 6 months at Univ. Knoxville, TN (USA)

  • Main Publications

    Kinetics and mechanisms of solid-gas reactions, Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Volume 6, 2nd Edition, Recent Advances, Techniques and Applications, chapitre 5, Elsevier Science, ISBN: 9780444640628, 2018.

    French Activity on High Temperature Corrosion in Water Vapor, Materials Science Foundations 76, Eds. S. Chevalier, J. Favergeon, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Zurich, 2014.

  • Distinctions

    ICTAC International Grant Program for Young Scientists 2012
    AFACT-Setaram “Jacques Mercier” Award 2012
    NATAS Student travel award 2006

105 documents

  • Nobuyoshi Koga, Loïc Favergeon. Universal kinetic approach to the thermal decomposition of solids under different partial pressures of evolved gas. ESTAC12 - 12th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Central and Eastern European Committee for Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC); Transilvania University of Brasov (UniTBv); National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR); Institute of Physical Chemistry "Ilie G. Murgulescu" of the Romanian Academy (ICF); Commission for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry of the Romanian Academy (CATCAR)., Aug 2018, Brasov, Romania. pp.102, OP2.14. ⟨hal-01900894⟩
  • Mathilde Gestin, Olivia Coindreau, Michèle Pijolat, Loïc Favergeon, Christian Duriez. Oxidation in air/steam mixtures of pre-oxidized Zircaloy-4 in the 750 - 950°C temperature range: experimental data and modeling for ASTEC code application. TOPFUEL 2018, ENS; American Nuclear Society; Atomic Energy Society of Japan; Korean Nuclear Society, Sep 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-02134247⟩
  • Sondes Hamdi, Laetitia Vieille, Kais Nahdi, Loïc Favergeon. Synthesis and carbonation of mesoporous magnesium oxide. 49es journées de calorimétrie et d’analyse thermique - JCAT49, May 2018, Saint-Etienne, France. . ⟨hal-01818030⟩
  • Loïc Favergeon. Suivi quantitatif des cinétiques de processus hétérogènes dans les milieux pulvérulents. Matériaux 2018, FEDERATION FRANCAISE DES MATERIAUX, Nov 2018, Strasbourg, France. ⟨hal-02124412⟩
  • Mathilde Gestin, Loïc Favergeon, Olivia Coindreau, Christian Duriez, Michèle Pijolat. Corrosion d’un alliage de zirconium par un melange air/vapeur d’eau a 750-900°C. JECH 2018 - 49èmes Journées d'Études sur la Cinétique Hétérogène., Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB); Université de Bourgogne (uB), Mar 2018, Dijon, France. ⟨hal-01827728⟩
  • João Preturlan, Laetitia Vieille, Sara Quiligotti, Loïc Favergeon. Kinetic and mechanistic aspects of the CaSO4-H20 solid-gas transformations: Gypsum dehydration reactions. ESTAC12 - 12th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Central and Eastern European Committee for Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC); Transilvania University of Brasov (UniTBv); National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR); Institute of Physical Chemistry "Ilie G. Murgulescu" of the Romanian Academy (ICF); Commission for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry of the Romanian Academy (CATCAR)., Aug 2018, Brasov, Romania. pp.111 / OP2.23. ⟨hal-01883110⟩
  • Nobuyoshi Koga, L. A. Pérez-Maqueda, Loïc Favergeon, N. V. Muravyev, S. Yamada. Physico-geometric kinetics of complex solid-state reactions. 49es journées de calorimétrie et d’analyse thermique - JCAT49, École des Mines Saint-Étienne; Association Française de Calorimétrie et d’Analyse Thermique (AFCAT), May 2018, Saint-etienne, France. ⟨hal-01820495⟩
  • Lénaïc Desfougeres, Éléonore Welcomme, Maelig Ollivier, Loïc Favergeon, Nicolas Clavier. Modélisation phénoménologique de la décomposition thermique d’oxalates d’actinides. JECRRC 2018 - 1ères Journées d’Etude de la Chimie sous Rayonnement et de la Radiochimie, Cellule Congrès de l'Université de strasbourg; Réseau/Projet Initiative de Recherche Stratégique NanoTheRad; Subdivision « Chimie sous Rayonnement et Radiochimie » - CRRC; Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien de Strasbourg - IPHC - UMR 7178 - CNRS/UDS; Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules - IN2P3 - CNRS, May 2018, Strasbourg, France. ⟨hal-01885023⟩
  • João Preturlan, Loïc Favergeon, Laetitia Vieille, Sara Quiligotti. Approfondissement des aspects thermodynamiques du système CaSO4-H2O. 49es journées de calorimétrie et d’analyse thermique - JCAT49, École des Mines Saint-Étienne; Association Française de Calorimétrie et d’Analyse Thermique (AFCAT), May 2018, Saint-Etienne, France. ⟨hal-01823061⟩
  • João G. D. Preturlan, Laetitia Vieille, Loïc Favergeon. Kinetic and mechanistic aspects of the dehydration of CaSO4·2H2O. Journée Scientifique 2018 du Codegepra, Codegepra Comité de Développement du Génie des Procédés en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; MINES Saint-Etienne / Centre SPIN; SFGP Société française de génie des procédés, Nov 2018, Saint-Etienne, France. pp.P11. ⟨hal-02290173⟩