Aurélie Joubert
Aurélie JOUBERT is Professor in Process Engineering at IMT Atlantique since 2010 in the Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering department. Her research focuses on the study of air and flue gas treatment processes, in particular gas-particle separation, to meet societal challenges such as guaranteeing air quality in indoor environments and limiting emissions from anthropogenic activities of thermochemical material conversion. Her approach involves the phenomenological understanding of processes, and the performance optimizing and modeling.
Courses description
The increasing concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere have impacts on the environment and human health. In Europe, an estimated 400,000 people die prematurely every year as a result of exposure to air pollution, including fine particles.
Gas/particle separation technologies help limit particle emissions into the atmosphere from emitting sectors such as energy and transport. These technologies are also used to guarantee better air quality in indoor environments.
This course presents the different gas/particle separation technologies in terms of (i) theory, and (ii) operating conditions and sizing which differ according to application: for indoor environments such as HVAC systems, or for industrial emission treatment. The course will be illustrated by feedback from laboratory experiments and real-life conditions.
Program
- Filter media: theory, application for indoor environments and HVAC systems with focus on microbial aerosol capture, application for flue gas treatment with bag filters
- Scrubbers: theory, application for flue gas treatment
- Electrostatic precipitators: theory, application for indoor environments, application for flue gas treatment
- Cyclones: theory and application for flue gas treatment