About

Created in Nancy in 2010, the Reactions and Process Engineering Laboratory (UMR 7274) is a joint unit of the CNRS and the University of Lorraine. Its general scientific objective is to study processes in their entirety and complexity.

The LRGP develops the scientific and technological knowledge required for the design, study, management and optimisation of complex physico-chemical and biological processes for the transformation of matter and energy.

The unit currently employs more than 300 people, including 12 researchers, 78 teacher-researchers, around thirty technical and administrative staff, around a hundred PhD students and around 20 post-docs and ATERs. The laboratory also welcomes around a hundred trainees a year.

History

The unit is the result of a merger of four longstanding research units in the Nancy ecosystem: the Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique (LSGC), the Département de Chimie Physique des Réactions (DCPR), the Laboratoire de Thermodynamique des Milieux Polyphasés (LTMP) and the Centre de Génie Chimique des Milieux Rhéologiquement Complexes (GEMICO).

Background

All these staff are spread over three sites: the Grandville campus in the city centre, the Brabois-Ingénierie campus (ENSAIA) in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy and the IUT Nancy-Brabois in Villers-lès-Nancy.

The laboratory's research is structured around five areas:

- Processes for the Environment, Safety and Resource Valorisation (PErSeVAL)
- Processes, Reactors, Intensification, Membranes and Optimisation (PRIMO)
- BioProcesses - BioMolecules (BioProMo)
- CInetics - THERmodynamics - Energy (CITHERE)
- Process Engineering for Products and Materials (Product Engineering)