Presentation of our partnerships
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PAUSE Program
The LOCIE laboratory is financially supported by the PAUSE program (Collège de France).
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/programme-pause/index.htm
CNRS-FAPESP international cooperation with the SISEA laboratory
This project is part of a broader effort to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. It aims to develop new generations of absorption machines dedicated to air treatment, enabling the recovery of solar energy or unused waste heat. The technical challenges are mainly related to the heat exchangers in these machines, which have reduced compactness and efficiency. The aim of the project is to develop new concepts for multifunctional exchangers using trickle films. The study will be applied to the ammonia-water combination at the SISEA laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo and to the water-lithium bromide combination at the LOCIE laboratory at the University of Chambéry. The operating conditions must correspond to the operating conditions of the absorption machines.
Carlton University
A collaboration between LOCIE and the Canadian research team SBES (Sustainable Building Energy Systems) led by Professor Ian Beausoleil-Morrison of Carleton University was initiated in 2013. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison is an internationally recognized professor for his work on inter-seasonal storage. He is currently president of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), which brings together researchers from around the world working on building simulation. The overall objective of the project is to improve understanding and modeling of coupled heat and mass transfer in the case of sensible energy storage in underground reservoirs, and to develop simulation tools to study this behavior. The aim is to make a significant contribution to reducing the energy requirements of buildings. A joint thesis will be launched during the 2013-2014 academic year.
GDR Films runoff and sheared films – GDR 3373
GDR FILMS was created in January 2010. GDR is a research group funded by the CNRS (INSIS) focusing on the themes of runoff, liquid films flowing by gravity and/or shear by gas flow, and transfer. These types of flows are encountered in process engineering and/or chemical engineering, in the automotive industry, the aerospace and aeronautical transport industries (water ingestion in engines, presence of liquid films in combustion chambers, alumina deposits in Ariane V propulsion systems, etc.), the construction industry, and the steel industry, and are the subject of significant fundamental and applied research. The GDR brings together 23 teams (14 from laboratories affiliated with INSIS, 7 non-affiliated, including 4 industrial teams and 2 from Belgium) with areas of expertise ranging from the physical chemistry of interfaces to chemical engineering, including mechanics, numerical analysis, physical hydrodynamics, and applied mathematics.