<span>Frédéric AUGIER</span>

Frédéric AUGIER

Characterization, modeling and development of multiphase reactor and contactor technologies

Summary

Frédéric Augier studied chemical engineering and fluid mechanics at ENSIGC, then carried out a PhD at the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique in Toulouse on the characterization and modeling of dense liquid-liquid dispersed flows. After 4 years of experience on polyamide intermediates at Rhodia's R&D center, Frédéric Augier joined IFPEN's Chemical Engineering & Technologies department in 2005 and was involved in various projects (xylene separation, trays and quench boxes in HDT units, oligomerization reactors, fermenters, liquid-liquid extraction, stirred reactors, etc.).

Activity

  • Project leader: Technologies for fixed-bed catalytic reactors
  • Development of multiphase reactors and contactors
  • Teaching: past (IFP School) and present (Université Grenoble Alpes)
  • 46 publications, 50 patents
  • Co-leader of the Reactor Thematic Group of the Société Française du Génie des Procédés (SFGP) https://www.sfgp.asso.fr/ingenierie-des-reacteurs-et-intensification/
  • Correspondent to the "Multiphase Flow" Working Party of the European Foundation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) https://efce.info/WP_MFF.html
  • Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE)
  • Secretary of the Comité de Développement du Génie des Procédés en Rhône-Alpes Auvergne (CODEGEPRA)
  • Habilitation to Direct Research (2014) and supervision of 13 PhD students, 4 post-docs

Disciplinary fields

  • Physical Sciences
  • Transfer and transport physics
  • Engineering sciences
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Chemical engineering and process engineering

Research topics

  • Modeling of dispersed gas-liquid and liquid-liquid flows
  • Modeling of fermenters
  • Modeling of multiphase flows in porous media

Projects

Sujets de Recherche

  • Modélisation des écoulements dispersés gaz-liquide et liquide-liquide
    De nombreux réacteurs chimiques et contacteurs mettent en œuvre des écoulements dispersés gaz-liquide ou liquide-liquide. Un axe de recherche consiste à développer des modèles numériques permettant de prédire les écoulements dispersés et leurs propriétés en terme de mélange et transfert de matière.
     
  • Modélisation des fermenteurs
    Les fermenteurs aérobies sont un cas particulier de réacteur gaz/liquide, mettant en œuvre un milieu biologique de rhéologie souvent complexe (non-newtonienne), et des souches pouvant être sensibles au stress hydrodynamique. La modélisation des fermenteurs nécessite donc, en plus d’études hydrodynamiques dédiées, de caractériser le métabolisme des souches mises en œuvre en conditions hydrodynamiques représentatives de l’échelle industrielle, ce qui est communément appelé approche  « Scale-down ».
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  • Modélisation des écoulements multiphasiques en milieu poreux
    De nombreux réacteurs d’hydrotraitement mettent en œuvre des lits fixes de grains de catalyseurs, dans lesquels circulent une phase gaz (hydrogène) et une phase liquide (hydrocarbure) en co-courant descendant. La modélisation des écoulements à l’échelle des grains puis du réacteur (en considérant le lit fixe comme un milieu poreux) permet de mieux prédire l’impact des technologies de distribution et de quench sur les performances réactionnelles.
The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.

Publications

Publications (>2016)

  • Cappello V., Plais C., Vial C., Augier F., Bubble size and liquid-side mass transfer coefficient measurements in aerated stirred tank reactors with non-Newtonian liquids, Chemical Engineering Science 211 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2019.115280.
  • Maximiano Raimundo P. Cloupet A., Cartellier A., Beneventi D., Augier F., Hydrodynamics and scale-up of bubble columns in the heterogeneous regime: Comparison of bubble size, gas holdup and liquid velocity measured in 4 bubble columns from 0.15 m to 3 m in diameter, Chemical Engineering Science 198 (2019) 52–61.
  • Gemello L., Plais C., Augier F., Marchisio D.L., Population balance modelling of bubble columns under the heterogeneous flow regime, Chemical Engineering Journal, 372 (2019) 590-604.
  • Alméras E., Risso F., Roig V., Plais C., Augier F., Mixing mechanism in a two-dimensional bubble column, Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 074307 – Published 31 July 2018.
  • Gemello L., Cappello V.,  Augier F., Marchisio D., Plais C., CFD-based scale-up of hydrodynamics and mixing in bubble columns, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2018, 136, 846-858.
  • Alméras E., Plais C., Roig V., Risso F., Augier F., Mixing mechanisms in a low-sheared inhomogeneous bubble column, Chemical Engineering Science 186 (2018) 52–6.
  • Hardy N., Augier F., Nienow A. W., Béal C., Ben Chaabane F., Scale-up criteria for Trichoderma reesei fermentation, Chemical Engineering Science, 172, 2017, pp 158-168.
  • Augier F., Fourati M., Haroun Y., Characterization and Modelling of a Maldistributed Trickle Bed Reactor, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (2017) 95, pp. 222-230.
  • Hardy N., Moreaud M., Guillaume D., Augier F., Nienow A., Béal C., Ben Chaabane F., Advanced digital image analysis method dedicated to the characterization of the morphology of filamentous fungus, Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 266, Issue 2 (2017) pp. 126-140.
  • Alméras E., Plais C, Euzenat F., Risso F., Roig V., Augier F., Scalar mixing in bubbly flows : Experimental investigation and diffusivity modeling. Chemical Engineering Science 140 (2016) 114–122
  • Alméras E. , Cazin S. , Roig V., Risso F. , Augier F , Plais C., Time-resolved measurement of concentration fluctuations in a confined bubbly flow by LIF, International Journal of Multiphase Flow 83 (2016) 153–161.
  • Fangueiro Gomes L., Augier F., Leinekugel-le-Cocq D., Vinkovic I., Simoëns S., Modelling of a Simulated Moving Bed in case of non-ideal Hydrodynamics, Chemical Engineering Science 153 (2016) 188–198.
  • Maximiano Raimundo P., Cartellier A., Beneventi D., Forret A., Augier F., A new technique for in-situ measurements of bubble characteristics in bubble columns operated in the heterogeneous regime, Chemical Engineering Science, 155 (2016) 504-523.
  • Mizzi B. Meyer M., Prat L., Augier F, Leinekugel-Le-Cocq D., General design methodology for reactive liquid–liquid extraction: Application to dicarboxylic acid recovery in fermentation broth, Chemical Engineering and Processing (2016) 113, 20-34.
  • Plais C., Augier F., Effect of Liquid Viscosity on Mixing Times in Bubble Columns, Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering (2016) Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 969–974.
  • Raynal L., Augier F., Bazer-Bachi F., Haroun Y., Pereira da Fonte C. CFD Applied to Process Development in the Oil and Gas Industry – A Review Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles, 26 August 2015.