Education

2014 - Habilitation to supervise Ph-D students

2007 - Doctor in Chemical Engineering of Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine

2003 - Engineer INSA de Lyon

Research experience

2017 – Present Head of the “GREENER” group in Nancy

Director of the J. Villermaux CNRS research federation

Deputy director of Carnot ICEEL Institute

Co-editor of Journal of Analytical & Applied Pyrolysis (Elsevier)

2008 - Present Research scientist at CNRS Reactions and Chemical Engineering Laboratory, ENSIC, Nancy

2008 Post-doctoral Fellow at J. Villermaux Federation, CNRS, Nancy

2004 - 2007 Research engineer at Gaz de France (today ENGIE)

Research interest

Pyrolysis, gasification and liquefaction of biomass, polymers and wastes. Catalytic conversion of bio-oils and tar. Analysis of bio-oils.

Structure and reactivity of carbons (coke, char, etc.).

Development of (catalytic) thermochemical reactors. Modeling of biorefineries and biomass chains (from forest to final use).

Selection of some recent publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ba1AgoAAAAAJ&hl=en

* Corresponding author

1. Buendia-Kandia, F., Mauviel, G., Guedon, E., (…), Dufour, A.* , Decomposition of cellulose in hot-compressed water: detailed analysis of the products and effect of operating conditions, En&Fuels, in press 2017.

2. Jia, L.Y., Raad, M. Hamieh, S., (…)Pinard*, L., Dufour, A* Catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass: superior selectivity of hierarchical zeolites to aromatics, Green Chemistry 19(22), 5442-5459, 2017.

3. Shrestha, B., Le Brech, Y., Ghislain, T., Leclerc, S., Carré, V., Aubriet, F., Hoppe, S., Marchal, P., Pontvianne, S., Brosse, N., Dufour, A.*, A Multitechnique Characterization of Lignin Softening and Pyrolysis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 6(8), 6940-6949, 2017.

4. Jia, L.Y., Dufour, A., Le-Brech, Y., Authier, O., Mauviel*, G., On-line analysis of primary tars from biomass pyrolysis by single photoionization mass spectrometry: Experiments and detailed modelling, Chemical Engineering Journal, 313, 270–282, 2017.

5. Le Brech, Y., Raya, J., Delmotte, L., (...), Gadiou, R., Dufour*, A., Characterization of biomass char formation investigated by advanced solid state NMR, Carbon, 108, 165-177, 2016.

6. Le Brech, Y., Ghislain, T., Leclerc, S., Bouroukba, M., Delmotte, L., Chaimbault, P., Brosse, N., Snape, C., Dufour*, A., Effect of potassium on the mechanisms of biomass pyrolysis as studied by in-situ 1H NMR, TG-DSC and LC/MS, ChemSusChem, 9 (8), 863-872, 2016.