Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- CNRS
- Department
- Laboratoire d'énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion
- Research Field
- EngineeringChemistryPhysics
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Country
- France
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 35
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Not funded by an EU programme
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
Using hydrogen produced by electrolysis from renewable energies will support the climate-neutrality objective in many sectors. In particular, hydrogen combustion is bound to replace fossil fuel in many industrial systems involved with electrical power, steam, or heat generation. However, hydrogen combustion creates many challenges regarding safety, efficiency, and pollutant nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. Without any nitrogen, hydrogen oxy-combustion promises net-zero CO2 and net-zero NOx emissions by burning hydrogen with pure oxygen, also generated by electrolysis. The high temperature of such flames can be mitigated with steam dilution, but little is known about the stabilization of such hydrogen oxy-flames. Furthermore, this oxy-combustion leaves a high-temperature and corrosive environment in the combustion chamber, which requires innovative materials.
The HyMaX project
The HyMaX project gathers the CEMHTI, EM2C, and IRCER laboratories and the Air Liquide company. During this project, we will characterize, analyze and model the stabilization and heat transfer in hydrogen oxy-combustion. To sustain the harsh combustor environment, high-performance ceramic-based walls will be designed and tested in an oxy-flame combustor equipped with a co-axial injector. The developed coating will achieve the best compromise in terms of performance, durability, and processability. Flame stabilization above the injector and heat transfer will be studied through experiments and multiphysics simulations. Throughout HyMaX, the most advanced methods, diagnostics, and models will scrutinize the interplay between thermo-radiative properties, heat transfer, and flame stabilization.
The EM2C laboratory (CNRS/INSIS and Université Paris-Saclay/CentraleSupélec http://em2c.centralesupelec.fr/), through its high-level academic research on energy and combustion and its applied studies in partnership with leading companies and research centers in the fields of transport and energy, makes a significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge on these critical issues, both for the climate and the environment. To meet these challenges, the laboratory's research activities are organized around three main themes: Combustion, Non-equilibrium Plasmas, Transfer Physics, and a transversal action in Applied Mathematics. You will be integrated into the Combustion axis. As a PhD student (M/F), you will be registered in the SMEMAG doctoral school (ED 579 - Mechanical & Energy Sciences, Materials & Geosciences).. The EM2C Laboratory has around 45 permanent staff (researchers, teacher-researchers & research support staff) and 35 PhD students, post-docs, trainees & visiting professors. The position is located in a sector covered by the Protection of Scientific and Technical Potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with regulations, that your arrival be authorized by the competent MESR authority.
The EM2C CNRS Laboratory is seeking a highly qualified candidate for a Ph.D. fellowship in numerical simulations of turbulence, combustion, and heat transfer. The successful candidate will be supervised by Pr. Ronan Vicquelin to study hydrogen flames in oxy-combustion.
The successful candidate will develop a modelling framework for H2/O2 flames diluted with steam to predict the stabilization of swirled oxy-flames and associated heat transfer. The multi-physics approach will combine Large-Eddy-Simulation, wall heat transfer (Conjugate Heat Transfer), and thermal radiation to understand the complex interplay between swirled flame stabilization, heat transfer, and wall properties. A key objective is to model, understand, and retrieve the effects of advanced thermal and environmental coatings developed in the HyMax project. The research outcomes will be published in the major high-impact international journals.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Engineering
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Research Field
- Chemistry
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Research Field
- Physics
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Level
- Basic
- Research Field
- Engineering
- Years of Research Experience
- None
- Research Field
- Chemistry
- Years of Research Experience
- None
- Research Field
- Physics
- Years of Research Experience
- None
Additional Information
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Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Laboratoire d'énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion
- Country
- France
- City
- GIF SUR YVETTE
- Geofield
Where to apply
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Contact
- City
- GIF SUR YVETTE
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