ICÉEL

ICÉEL Carnot institute for Energy and Environment in Lorraine associates one instituteand two research networks, namely Jean Lamour (skills in Materials), Water-Soil-Earth (skills in Geosciences), Jacques Villermaux (skills in Mechanics, Energy, Chemical Engineering), gathering 15 laboratories affiliated to CNRS and Nancy-University (INPL, UHP) as well as the Regional Center of Technological Transfer (PRETT) grouping 8 research transfer centers. Thus ICÉEL concentrates exceptional resources, i.e. highly specialised scientific techniques together with strong human potential. ICÉEL aims at the development of clean and secure processes with low energy consumption, and directed for the rational use of energy resources and finally, at the design of innovative materials and intelligent products.

ICÉEL is based on very high scientific skills in chemistry and physics of materials, in geochemistry, in chemical and biological process engineering, in material development, and in innovative transformation processes.
The laboratories grouped in ICÉEL institute centered in the Nancy area have gathered a strong tradition of industrial collaboration, which is based on a one hundred years old experience closely linked to its 10 engineering colleges.

A scientific strategy based on four major transverse axes

• Sustainable development in the clean and rational exploitation of mineral and energy resources
• Rational use of fossil and renewable energy sources
• Clean and safe process engineering: a controlled industrial production and processing of materials, the development of a sustainable chemistry, the rehabilitation of polluted wastelands…
• Nano-sciences for the development of nanomaterials technologies and for the creation of nano and micro devices

Examples of some multi-field projects developed within the ICÉEL institute

• Capture and CO2 storage: Innovating gas – liquid contactor developed for carbon dioxide capture, injectivity control of CO2 in deep reservoirs, wellboring integrity surveys for the geological CO2 storage
• Kinetic modelling of the thermal stability of hydrocarbons in oil fields
• Development, characterization and optimization of nano-organized Polymers with specific functions
• Cluster “Fuel cell with membranes”: thermics and water management in the fuel cell heart, membranes ageing control
• Microfluidic and multi-scale fluidic system: to design, characterize and test micro-structured reactor for the transfer intensification in matter and energy transformation processes
• Materials layout and performance, chemical engineering and sustainable development
• Depollution of soils (GISFI): 14 laboratories and 5 companies engaged in a scientific and technological project for sustainable requalification of degraded sites polluted by past industrial activities with experiments implemented on site

ICÉEL's 15 laboratories and 8 research transfer centers

Mecanics, energy and chemical
Engineering Network Jacques Villermaux Federation

• Department of Physical Chemistry of Reactions (DCPR)
• Center of Chemical engineering for Rheologically Complex Media (GEMICO)
• Group of Research in Electrical engineering and Electronics of Nancy (GREEN)
• Macromolecular Physical Chemistry Laboratory (LCPM)
• Laboratory of Energetics and Theorical and Applied Mechanics (LEMTA)
• Laboratory of Studies and Research on Material Wood (LERMAB)
• Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Sciences (LSGC)
• Laboratory of Thermodynamics of the multiphase Media (LTMP)

Metallurgy and materials Network Jean Lamour Institute

• Laboratory of Surfaces Science and Engineering (LSGS)
• Laboratory of Physics of Materials (LPM)
• Laboratory of Science and of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy (LSG2M)
• Laboratory of Physics of the Ionized Mediums and Application (LPMIA)
• Chemistry Laboratory of the Mineral Solid (LCSM)

Earth Sciences Network Water - Soil - Earth Federation

• Petrographic and Geochemical Research Center (CRPG)
• Laboratory of Geology and Mineral and Energy Resource Management (G2R)
• Laboratory of Environment and Mineralurgy (LEM-GRESD)
• Laboratory of Micro-organism Minerals - Organic matter interactions in Soils (LiMos)
• Soils and Environment Laboratory (LSE)
• Laboratory of geomechanics, civil engineering and environment (LAEGO)

Lorraine Technological Transfer Centers Network PRETT

• APOLLOR, plasturgy and polymers
• CRITT Bois, wood technology
• CRITT TJF&U, fluid jet and machining
• CRITT METALL 2T, metals and alloys
• CIRTES, rapid prototyping
• WELDING Institute
• ICAR, materials and ceramics
• NANCIE, water concerns
• PPE, plasturgy technology in the East of France
   

Core business

• Energy & environment
• Materials, mechanics and Processes
• Earth sciences (exploitation and management of natural resources, protection of the environment)
High competences

• chemistry
• Micro & nanotechnologies
• Transports, engine, propulsion and fuel