ChimSep involves 7 academic beneficiaries, 7 industrial partners coming from 6 countries, 1 bio-economy cluster and 13 PhD students - All beneficiaries hosting the PhDs are world leaders in their field of expertise covering several areas.
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Doctoral network presentation
ChimSep will contribute to the scientific, societal & economic impacts related to the development of the “chemical factory of the future” able to implement efficient and selective transformations in a safe, environmentally responsible and sustainable way. This will be achieved by following an eco-conception approach of synthesis & separation approved by ChimSep associated industrial partners.
Catalytic transformations of renewable resources using green solvents and eco-efficient processes must be implemented to reach these goals.
The ChimSep objective is to train through research the next generation of European Scientists/Researchers (PhDs) thanks to an innovative and entrepreneurial network based on the complementarity of two scientific communities: “Chemists” specialists in homogeneous catalysis and “Membranologists” specialists in sustainable membrane separation processes.
The innovative approach is to bring together these two scientific communities as the project core to obtain an adequate development of greener & safer chemical factories in line with the green chemistry principles, and to handle the young PhDs training-through-research in an integrated manner thanks to an inter- and multi- disciplinary network.
Each of the PhD projects will be a milestone to reach the global objective: implementation & optimization of catalytic transformations & separation of the target compound(s) from a complex mixture, together with recycling of unused components, including solvents.
13 PhDs studying a given set of catalysed reactions and their separation by organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) and membrane distillation (MD), working in close relationship with permanent feedbacks (instead of parallel approaches) between the 5 Chemist PhDs and the 8 Membranologist PhDs is the key to success.
Beside this scientific training, PhDs will acquire additional skills & competencies required to prepare their future career in academia and/or industry.
To achieve this challenging objective, a high quality and multidisciplinary secondary and soft-skill training program has been built in close collaboration with the associated industrial partners.
13 PhDs preparing joint-doctorate diploma and hosted at:
1. ChimSep-PhD#1 - Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN) applied to alkoxycarbonylation media in methanol/ethanol using single step or cascades.
Murielle Rabiller-Baudry (University of Rennes, France), Anna Buekenhoudt and Kristien de Sitter (VITO, Belgium)
2. ChimSep-PhD#2 - Ring-closing metathesis (RCM) of bio-sourced precursors.
Cédric Fischmeister (University of Rennes, France), Karol Grela and Anna Kajetanowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
3. ChimSep-PhD#3 - Atomistic modelling and molecular simulations of Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN).
Anthony Szymczyk and Aziz Ghoufi (University of Rennes, France), Bart Van der Bruggen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
4. ChimSep-PhD#4 - New synthetic design and catalytic engineering toward long-chain polymer precursors from renewables
Sophie Guillaume, Jean-François Carpentier (University of Rennes, France) and Ezster Barath (Leibniz Institute für Katalyse, Rostock, Germany)
5. ChimSep-PhD#5 - Feasibility & limitation of Membrane Distillation in olefin metathesis in ethylacetetate/dimethylcarbonate
Wojciech Kujawski (UMK Torun, Poland) and Joao Crespo (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal)
6. ChimSep-PhD#6 - New olefin metathesis catalysts designed for efficient Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) and membrane distillation (MD) separation and lactone synthesis
Karol Grela and Anna Kajetanowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland), Cédric Fischmeister (University of Rennes, France)
7. ChimSep-PhD#7 - Transition metal-based catalysts for hydrogenation & carbonylation of bio-based substrates
Ezster Barath (Leibniz Institute für Katalyse, Rostock, Germany), Sophie Guillaume and Jean-François Carpentier (University of Rennes, France)
8. ChimSep-PhD#8 - Transfer hydrogenation of renewable platform chemicals
Eszter Barath (Leibniz Institute für Katalyse, Rostock, Germany), Cédric Fischmeister (University of Rennes, France)
9. ChimSep-PhD#9 - Membranes and Process relationship in the design of sustainable, technical-economic new industrial OSN separations applied to transfer hydrogenation in ethanol
Bart Van der Bruggen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Murielle Rabiller-Baudry (University of Rennes, France)
10. ChimSep-PhD#10 - Process integration of organic solvent nanofiltration based on membrane cascades and distillation. Application to hydroformylation in toluene
Bart Van der Bruggen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Murielle Rabiller-Baudry (University of Rennes, France)
11. ChimSep-PhD#11 - Catalyst recycling with functionalized ceramic membranes
Anna Buekenhoudt and Dominic Ormerod (VITO, Belgium), Murielle Rabiller-Baudry (University of Rennes, France)
12. ChimSep-PhD#12 - Advanced process monitoring by on-line fluorescence and advanced mathematical modelling in membrane distillation applied to alkoxycarbonylation of methyl-10-undecenoate in methanol
Joao Crespo (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal), Murielle Rabiller-Baudry (University of Rennes, France)
13. ChimSep-PhD#13 - Advanced process monitoring by on-line mass spectrometry and advanced mathematical modelling in membrane distillation applied to transfer hydrogenation of furfural in ethanol
Joao Crespo (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal) and Wojciech Kujawski (UMK Torun, Poland)