“Process Design for Energy and Environment, from fundamentals to technology”
See SPIN website : www.mines-stetienne.fr/spin
Head
Ana CAMEIRAO
cameirao@mines-stetienne.fr
Research fields
Industrial and Geo-Chemical Engineering
- Scientific fields
- Particle design: synthesis, reactivity and transportation of divided and dispersed solids and porous materials.
- Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems.
- Applications fields
- Industry: Free carbon energy production: nuclear, fossils and bio-sourced, Efficient plants: materials, energy and water management,
- Geo-Sciences: Hydrology and contaminated soil management.
Human Ressources
80 persons
- 50 permanent staff : 25 Professors or assistants and 25 technical and administrative persons
- 30 PhD students and Post-Doct
Expertise, skills and know-how
- Dynamics of heterogeneous and granular systems,
- Multi-physics and multi-scale modelling, from nm3 to km3
- Inline, in-situ and offline physico-chemical characterizations
- Technology: from sensor to process designing, sizing and prototyping
Research units
- Georges Friedel Laboratory (UMR 5703)
- EVS (UMR 5600)
Scientific Departments
PEG – Process for Environment and Geo-Ressources
Contact : Baptiste Bouillot, bouillot@mines-stetienne.fr
- Modelling of Complex Hydrosystems
- Recovery of Hydrometallurgical Wastes
- Depollution of Soils
PMMG – Powder Science and Technology
Contact: Éric Serris, serris@mines-stetienne.fr
- Powder Science and Technology
- Powders and Grains
- Cement and concrete
- Image analysis
- iImage processing
- Image analysis
- Image modelling
PTSI – Process for solid conversion and Instrumentation
Contact: Loïc Favergeon, loic.favergeon@mines-stetienne.fr
- Multi-Scale modelling of Heterogeneous Reactors
- Reactivity of Multi-Material Systems
- Heterogeneous Kinetics
- Solid-Gas Reactivity
- Process Intensification and Instrumentation
- Sensors
Platforms
Physico-Chemical Characterization of Powders (PC2)
Contact: Éric Serris, serris@mines-stetienne.fr
- Crystallization Reactors
- Fragmentation
- Sieving
- Controlled atmosphere furnaces
- Instrumented press
- Granulometry (LG, DLS, FBRM, Turbidity)
- Flowability
- MIP
- Surface area analysis (BET)
- Surface characterization (AFM, Digidrop, Zeta Potential)
- X-Ray tomography
- XRD (High temp, GIXRD)
Study of solids by Thermal Micro-Analysis (ESMAT)
Contact: Laetitia Vieille, laetitia.vieille@mines-stetienne.fr
- Heat Treatment of Powders and Solid Materials
- Thermal Analysis (DSC, DTA, Dilatometry)
- Evolved Gas Analysis (FTIR, GPC, MS)
- Thermogravimetry (3 TGA 1600°C, 3 TG 800°C)
- Gas sensor test bench
- SOFC
Spectrometry and Chemical Characterization (SAC)
Contact: Laetitia Vieille, laetitia.vieille@mines-stetienne.fr
- FTIR (DRIFT, ATR, TG-FTIR)
- Raman
- FTIR & Raman microscopy
- ATR probe
- UV Spectrometry
- XRF
- ICP
- Ionic Chromatography
- GC
- GC-MS
- Gas Analyzer: IR, UV, MS
Hall for Energy and Water technologies prototyping (T2E2)
Contact: Jérôme Douzet, jerome.douzet@mines-stetienne.fr
- Hydrate loop
- Heat treatment of wood
- Air conditioning and CO2 capture pilots
- Instrumentation- sensors