Il Prof. Jean-Claude CHARPENTIER, professore di Ingegneria Chimica a Nantes, in Francia, ha tenuto il primo seminario su un approccio ecologico all’ingegneria chimica del futuro.

Abstract

The chemical industry and related industries militate for the evolution of chemical engineering in favour of a modern process engineering approach, voluntarily concerned with sustainability, facing new challenges and stakes bearing on complex systems at the molecular scale, at the product scale and at the process scale. The seminar will discuss a modern, green multiscale approach to process innovation which combines both market pull and technology push, leading towards the eco-efficient factory of the future, possibly yielding a plant in a shoe box or in a banana container!

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Jean-Claude Charpentier is Professor of Chemical Engineering in the field of multiphase gas-liquid-solid catalytic reactors encountered in the field of air and water depollution and in the field of process intensification, at Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Nancy-Université, France.  He is also Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS) at the Laboratoire Réaction et Génie des Procédés LRGP/CNRS/ENSIC/INPL Nancy-Université. Prof. Charpentier has published extensively in the field of multiphase gas-solid-liquid reactors and bioreactors, and more recently in the general field of  green and sustainable chemical and process engineering, and has presented 60 invited plenary or opening lectures in international congresses in the field of chemical and process engineering. The coauthor of 3 books on multiphase chemical reactors, Prof. Charpentier has been Scientific Director of the Department of Engineering Sciences of the CNRS at the Ministry of Research and Technology (1985-1992), the Scientific President of the French Society of Chemical Engineers (1997-2002) and the President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (2002-2006).