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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

  • Rémy Besson, Loïc Favergeon. Atomic-scale study of calcite nucleation in calcium oxide. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117 (17), pp.8813-8821. ⟨10.1021/jp4002252⟩. ⟨hal-00833817⟩
  • Lydie Rouchon, Loïc Favergeon, Michèle Pijolat. Analysis of the kinetic slowing down during carbonation of CaO by CO2. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2013, 113 (3), pp. 1145-1155. ⟨10.1007/s10973-013-2950-5⟩. ⟨hal-00858783⟩
  • Simon Pages, Olivier Dugne, Michèle Pijolat, Loïc Favergeon, Medhi Arab, et al.. Etude cinétique et modélisation de l'hydrofluoration des oxydes d'uranium. 44° Journées d'Etude sur la Cinétique Hétérogène (JECH 44), Apr 2013, Saclay, France. ⟨hal-00816117⟩
  • Rémy Besson, Loïc Favergeon. Germination de CaCO3 en surface de CaO : Simulations à l'échelle atomique. XIV° Congrès de la Société Française génie des Procédés, Oct 2013, LYON, France. pp.Posters ; C4 - 100. ⟨hal-00880033⟩
  • Loïc Favergeon, Jacques Morandini, Michèle Pijolat, Michel Soustelle. Kinetic modeling of solid-gas reactions at reactor scale: A general approach. ICFD 2013 (Tenth International Conference on Flow Dynamics), Dec 2013, Sendai, Japan. pp.258-259. ⟨hal-00924739⟩
  • Loic Favergeon, Jacques Morandini, Michèle Pijolat, Michel Soustelle. CIN4: A multiphysics software for heterogeneous reactions at a reactor scale. XIVe Congrès de la Société Française de Génie des Procédés, Oct 2013, Lyon, France. pp.No 104. ⟨hal-00930184⟩
  • Lydie Rouchon, Loïc Favergeon, Michèle Pijolat. New kinetic model for the rapid step of calcium oxide carbonation by carbon dioxide. 44e Journées d'Analyse Thermique et de Calorimétrie (AFCAT 2013), May 2013, Lyon, France. pp.En attente, ⟨10.1007/s10973-013-3544-y⟩. ⟨hal-00934598⟩
  • Loïc Favergeon, Lydie Rouchon, Michèle Pijolat. A multiscale approach for the kinetic modeling of CaO carbonation. 41st Annual Conference of NATAS (North American Thermal Analysis), Aug 2013, Bowling Green (Kentucky), United States. A paraître. ⟨hal-00929755⟩
  • Véronique Peres, Loïc Favergeon, Marie Andrieu, Jean-Claude Palussière, Julien Balland, et al.. High temperature chromium volatilization from Cr2O3 powder and Cr2O3-doped UO2 pellets in reducing atmospheres. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2012, 423 (1-2), pp.93-101. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.01.001⟩. ⟨hal-00672237⟩
  • Loïc Favergeon, Jacques Morandini, Michèle Pijolat, Michel Soustelle. A general approach for kinetic modeling of solid-gas reactions at reactor scale. MAPI (Multiscale Approaches for Process Innovation), Lyon, 25 au 27 janvier 2012, Jan 2012, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-00674512⟩

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