– Activation of chemical reactions and intensification of physical processes by power ultrasound (catalyst regeneration, surface cleaning, biomass valorization, extraction of biomolecules…)

– Sonochemical engineering for the design of reactors / pilot under ultrasound at large scale

– Multiphase catalytic reactions (kinetic studies and reaction mechanisms) such as oxidation for water treatment (heterogeneous Fenton reaction and wet catalytic oxidation) as well as selective hydrogenations and hydroformylation in petrochemicals field

– Processes to produce nanoparticles and supported catalysts (wet and dry impregnation, polymerization)

Applications

wastewater treatment (water, sludge…), pharmaceutical and food industry (biomolecules production/extraction), petrochemical industry.

Research supervision

• 6 PhD students (Ngoc Tuan LE (2013), Imane BENHAMED (2015), Sandyanto ADITYOSULINDRO (2017), Vincent GROSJEAN (2019), Igor Kester GARCIA VARGAS (ongoing), Pauline DELRAN (ongoing))
• 5 post-docs fellows (Andres Fernando CARDOZO PEREZ, Emeline LOBRY, Imane BENHAMED, Yandi LAN, Antonin AZAIS)

Teaching activities

Chemical engineering; chemical reactor engineering; process conception and pilots sizing; thermal engineering; transport phenomena;

Collaborators:

Academic partners: LCC, LCA, TBI (ex-LISBP), IMT-RAPSODEE, LRP, ISCR

Industries and private organisms: SinapTec, Inalve, Alg & You, Polymem, Sairem

International: Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (Vietnam), Université des Sciences et Techniques d’Oran (Algérie), Universitas Indonésia (Indonésie), Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnologías Aplicadas (Cuba)