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Created in Nancy in 2010, the Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés (UMR 7274) is a joint unit of the CNRS and the Université de Lorraine. Its general scientific objective is the study of processes in all their complexity.
The LRGP develops the scientific and technological knowledge required for the design, study, management and optimization of complex physico-chemical and biological processes for the transformation of matter and energy.
The laboratory’s research is structured around five main areas:
– Processes for the Environment, Safety and Resource Valorization (PErSeVAL)
– Processes, Reactors, Intensification, Membranes, Optimization (PRIMO)
– BioProcesses – BioMolecules (BioProMo)
– CInétique – THERmodynamique – Énergie (CITHERE)
– Process Engineering for Products and Materials (Product Engineering)
The LRGP’s activities in the field of biorefineries, a theme at the heart of sustainable chemistry and one of the pillars of the European Horizon 2020 program, cover a wide spectrum of skills which have been summarized in a white paper, structured around 13 project sheets and involving the laboratory’s 5 axes with a total of some twenty permanent staff.
The activities carried out within the framework of numerous national and European research projects concern the processing of plant resources upstream of the chain (e.g. supercritical oil extraction from rapeseed), the thermal transformation of biomass (gasification and synthesis gas production, pyrolysis of lignin to produce aromatics) or biotechnology (production of intermediates from sugars), catalytic conversion of biomolecules (e.g. transesterification of lipids) or enzymatic conversion (acylation of peptides), separation and purification processes (membranes, chromatography) or the production of biobased products (acrylic polymers).
This work is supported by a portfolio of dedicated methodological tools: process modeling (bioreactors, catalytic processes, bioseparations), simulation of an entire process chain in a Process System Engineering (PSE) environment, safety considerations and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
