The design, construction and optimization of the experimental equipment and prototypes developed by the researchers is done in narrow cooperation with the Mechanical Workshop, the Electronics Workshop, the Coordination of Analytical Tools, and the Computing and Networks Service.

The Mechanical Workshop operates:

• A design-office for the pre-design of prototypes (3D-Inventor CAD software) and cost-evaluation.

• Conventional and numerical equipment for machining complex components (e.g. a ultra-high-speed milling machine for micromechanics) with a variety of materials, from metals to plastics.

• Soldering and welding equipment (TIG or GTAW).

• Shaping, forming, assembling and glueing plastic materials.

The electronics workshop:

• designs and fabricates electronic set-ups allowing real-time data processing and control of experiments (mainly associating numerical electronic cards with micro- controllers).

• designs interfaces for computer control of experiments (under Labview).

The Coordination of Analytical Tools is an internal cross-organization whose task is to coordinate and organize the maintenance of the large analytical park, and to keep it up-to-date. The analytical park comprises chromatographs, particle analyzers, spectrometers, microscopes, rheometers, imaging equipment...

The Computing and Networking Service:

• ensures the development, maintenance and renewal of the more than 600 connected computers and cluster.

• manages the servers and associated software.

• develops new calculation and simulation software.

LRGP has well equipped and performing technical services, operated by highly qualified personnel, able to rapidly respond to the needs of research

REACTIONS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORYCNRS - University of Lorraine – Nancy - France

The LRGP belongs to both the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and to the University of Lorraine.

Its 300 persons are located on about 9000 m 2 mainly on the campus of ENSIC, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Lorraine) in the city center of Nancy, while the biotechnology activities are located on the campus of ENSAIA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Agro Alimentaires (Agronomy and Food Science Engineering Department of the University of Lorraine).

For projects with industry or with public collectivities,LRGP interacts with two specific partners

An institutional partner

ICEEL: Institut Carnot Energie et Environnement en Lorraine

Founded in 2007, ICEEL is a cluster of 22 laboratories

and technical centers in process, materials, energy and

environmental technologies (among which LRGP).

It provides a coordinated and multidisciplinary response

and offer for partnership research with industry or public

institutions.

An operational partner

PROGEPI: a technology transfer center

PROGEPI offers R&D services in processes, energy and

environment. It has a staff of full time dedicated engineers,

has access to the equipment and facilities of LGRP, and to

the expertise of the researchers.

The collaborations may be in the form of experimental

tests, equipment design, technological survey, numerical

simulation studies, chemical analyses, consulting sessions.

Site ENSIC

1, rue Grandville

BP 20451

54001 Nancy Cedex - France

Tél +33 (0)3 83 17 51 90

2015050070

Site ENSAIA

2, avenue de la forêt de Haye

TSA 40602

54518 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy - France

Tél +33 (0)3 83 59 57 76Site Plateforme

SCIENCE DU VIVANT et Santé

13, rue du bois de la Champelle

54500 Vandœuvre - France

Tél +33 (0)3 83 44 83 28

Find out more on our website: http://lrgp.univ-lorraine.fr/

Contact us by e-mail: lrgp-contact@univ-lorraine.fr

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LRGP is organized along five main thematic lines

• Pilot plant for soil remediation and pollutant transport (GISFI platform).

• Platform for aerosol characterisation (granulometry, electric charge…).• Platform for dust explosion (20 liters explosion sphere).• Multichannel potentiostats.• Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).• High speed, high resolution camera.• Electrocoagulation set-up.• Devices for waste water analysis.• Equipments for in-situ tests and analyses in rivers.

• Thermal flux calorimetry.• Rapid prototyping by laser stereolithography (3D printing).• Modular toolbox for microstructured reactors.• Equipments for gas permeation and pervaporation.• Organic nanofiltration equipment.

• Parallel mini-bioreactors for animal cell culture.• Fermentors with process control equipment.• Microscope with on-line image analysis.• Low-pressure preparative chromatography.• Liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled with spectrometry.

• Flat laminar flame burners.• Perfectly mixed stirred reactor for kinetic gas-phase studies up to 10 bars.• Shock-wave tube.• Multiphase pressurized hydrogen reactor (150 bar).• Laser pyrolysis of solids.• Fluidised bed for biomass gasification (3kg/h).• On-line Mass Spectrometry for gases, tars, pollutants.• GC*GC/MS; LC/MSGC-FID/TCD/MS; CRDS.• Equipment for measuring critical points; ebulliometry.

• Micro-compounder.• Single-and double-screw extruders.• Tensile/compression machine (Instron). • Parr reactor for hydrothermal or high pressure synthesis.• Liquid-Solid fluidisation equipment.• High temperature,

high-pressure rheo-reactor.

• Powder rheology equipment.

• Transport of pollutants in soils ; physico-chemical and biological remediation processes for soils, waters and effluents treatements.

• Recovery and valorization of metals from polluted soils (hydrometallurgy, agromining).• Characterisation of flows and polyphase interactions (G/L and G/S) in processing.• Aerosols and Safety: filtration, adsorption, explosions• Electrochemical processes for hydrometallurgy and energy (fuel cells).• Life Cycle Analysis and environmental analysis of processes.

• Intensified processes and micro-structured systems.• Membrane materials and processes for molecular separations: gases, liquids, vapours.• Supercritical CO2 processes: extractions and reactions.• Optimal experimental strategies.• Dynamic process optimization.• Design of optimal architecture of coupled or hybrid multifunctional processes.

• Biorefiney of agricultural protein resources.• Process design for animal cell culture in reactors.• Microbial processes for non-food applications.• Peptide functionalization by enzymatic processes.• Characterization and modeling of hydrodynamics in bioreactors.• Novel on-line analysis methods for bioprocesses.• Photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.• Numerical approaches for experimental design, modeling and optimization of bioprocesses.

• KInetics of radical reactions: theoretical kinetics and software for investigating and modeling reaction mechanisms (from detailed mechanisms to lumped models).• Oxydation and pyrolysis of fossil hydrocarbons and biofuels in gas phase.• Thermochemical transformations of ligno-cellulosic biomass to synthons and biofuels. • Design and modelling of reactors and processes for pyrolysis, gasification and liquefaction of biomass for energy.• Design and optimization of energy transformation machines: heat pumps, cooling machines.• Advanced thermodynamic models (state equations, molecular simulation) for physical properties and phase equilibria of complex mixtures (petroleum mixtures, ionic liquids).

• Elaboration of micro-structured materials and products with end-use properties.

• Processing of rheologically and structurally complex and evolutive media.• Reactive extrusion for synthesis and recycling of polymers and materials with polymer matrix.• Crystallization and precipitation for purification and synthesis of divided solids.• Synthesis of functionalized nano-particles.• Powder mixing and formulation.

Processes for Environment, Safety

and Resource Valorization

Processes for Products and

Materials

Kinetics and Thermodynamics

for Energy and Products

Intensification, Optimization and Architecture of

Processes

Bioprocesses, Biomolecules

TRANSVERSE ACTIVITIES

• Hydrometallurgy for valorizing metallic resources.

• Capture and valorization of CO2.

• Biorefinery engineering.

• CFD for complex, multiphase and reactive fluids.

• Chemical and biological transformations and separations.

OUR OBJECTIVERespond to the societal stakes through more sustainable green and safe plants with:

• Increased process efficiency through better management of matter and energy fluxes.

• Decreased ecological footprint.

• Environment-friendly products and materials.

• Integrated economic and social criteria.

OUR STRENGTH

A muti-scale and integrative approach going from the detailed analysis of elementary phenomena all the way to process design.

The Laboratory of Reactions and Chemical Engineering develops the scientific and technological knowledge necessary for the synthesis and recycling of materials and functional products, through chemical, physico-chemical and biological processes and the design, the optimization and the control of the elaboration processes and the related transformation of mass and energy.