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

  • João G. D. Preturlan, Laetitia Vieille, Sara Quiligotti, Loïc Favergeon. Kinetics and mechanism of the dehydration of calcium sulfate dehydrate: a comprehensive approach for the dehydration of ionic hydrates under controlled temperature and water vapor pressure. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124 (48), pp.26352 à 26367. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09041⟩. ⟨emse-03113546⟩
  • Sergey Vyazovkin, Alan K. Burnham, Loïc Favergeon, Nobuyoshi Koga, Elena Moukhina, et al.. ICTAC Kinetics Committee recommendations for analysis of multi-step kinetic. Thermochimica Acta, 2020, 689, pp.178597. ⟨emse-03107652⟩
  • Lénaïc Desfougeres, Eleonore Welcomme, Maelig Ollivier, Philippe Martin, Julie Hennuyer, et al.. Oxidation as an early stage in the multistep thermal decomposition of uranium(IV) oxalate into U3O8. Inorganic Chemistry, In press, ⟨10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01047⟩. ⟨hal-02736864⟩
  • Satoki Kodani, Shun Iwasaki, Loïc Favergeon, Nobuyoshi Koga. Revealing the effect of water vapor pressure on the kinetics of thermal decomposition of magnesium hydroxide. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020, 22 (24), pp.13637-13649. ⟨10.1039/D0CP00446D⟩. ⟨hal-02975535⟩
  • João G. D. Preturlan, Laetitia Vieille, Sara Quiligotti, Loïc Favergeon. Comprehensive Thermodynamic Study of the Calcium Sulfate–Water Vapor System. Part 1: Experimental Measurements and Phase Equilibria. Industrial and engineering chemistry research, 2019, 58 (22), pp.9596 à 9606. ⟨10.1021/acs.iecr.9b00856⟩. ⟨hal-02155398⟩
  • Mohamad Mahdi Siblani, Maelig Ollivier, Loïc Favergeon. Réactivité des poudres de Ti-6Al-4V dans différents environnements gazeux à haute température pour des applications dans les procédés de fabrication additive. Journée Scientifique 2019 du Codegepra, Nov 2019, Villeurbanne, France. , Journée scientifique - CODEGEPRA - SFGP Sud-Est - Le Génie des Procédés en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, pp.26 / P15., 2020. ⟨hal-02492749⟩
  • Mohamad Mahdi Siblani, Maelig Ollivier, Loïc Favergeon. An experimental study of Ti-6Al-4V powder reactivity in gaseous environment: Application to additive manufacturing. The 14th World Conference on Titanium, The French Titanium Association; The French Society for Me-tallurgy and Materials; EMC2, Jun 2019, Nantes, France. pp.03035, ⟨10.1051/matecconf/202032103035⟩. ⟨hal-02493275⟩
  • Mathilde Gestin, Michel Mermoux, Olivia Coindreau, Christian Duriez, Michèle Pijolat, et al.. Experimental study of oxidation in oxygen, nitrogen and steam mixtures at 850C of pre-oxidized Zircaloy-4. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019, 519, pp.302 à 314. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.03.020⟩. ⟨hal-02152759⟩
  • Nobuyoshi Koga, Satoki Kodani, Loïc Favergeon. Kinetic analysis of the thermally induced transformations of calcium hydroxide in different gaseous atmospheres. 2nd Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Conference, AKCongress, Jun 2019, Budapest, Hungary. ⟨hal-02903528⟩
  • Yui Yamamoto, Loïc Favergeon, Nobuyoshi Koga. Impact of water vapor on the thermal dehydration of lithium sulfate monohydrate. 55th conference of the Japan Society of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, Kindai University, Oct 2019, Higashiosaka City, Japan. ⟨emse-02904173⟩