Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Processes & Products: typical missions

Innovation Risk Management


Evaluation of ideas and inventions in early stages
Photobioreactor for micro-algae production [for a start-up C° in F]
Synthesis of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes [for a start-up C° in USA]

Risk management for innovation projects
Waste management [technology advisor for an energy company]
- Vitrification of high-activity wastes
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Recycling of co-products from separation unit
Water-soluble polymers: comparison of industrial manufacturing routes


Innovation portfolio management

Cement and construction materials: impact of technology breakthroughs, vision 2020  [panel of senior consultants]
Technology transfer and licensing to industry, assessment of a strategy  [for the Engineering Division of CNRS, public research in France]
Mastering the development of innovative processes:  implementation of a project pipeline methodology [for a gas company in Europe]


Sustainable Process Technologies


Integrate sustainability thinking into innovative technologies
Benchmarking on ‘Chemical Technology Roadmaps’ in USA, Europe and Japan 
  [for the European Federation of Chemical Industries]
'Products and processes for a sustainable chemical industry: a review of achievements and prospects' [publication for SusTech-SusChem]

Biofuels:
   - Biodiesel: development of a new intensified route [for a french agrobusiness]
  
-Bioethanol, biodiesel, biomethane: benchmarking industrial status [for an engineering C°]
   - Sustainable energy: trends and opportunities [for asset management banks]


Education and Training: 1-3 day courses on 'Sustainable Industrial Chemistry'

Develop safer, cleaner, smaller and cheaper: ‘smarter’ processes.

Process Intensification:
   - Benchmarking of existing technologies for fine and pharmaceutical chemistry
   - Evaluation of opportunities in formulation (emulsions, supensions)
- Implementation of techniques to convert catalytic processes from batch to continuous operation
- Technico-economical evaluation of intensified devices in fine chemicals

Microtechnologies:
   - Assessment of the business strategies for chemical applications [for different microreactor/system suppliers]
   - Industrial applications in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and functional food : benchmarking intensified production tools

Energy savings: development of an intensified distillation technology
'Green' solvents: development of a process for new oxygenates