Professor, Hab.
Born on June 19th, 1973 in Savoy
Ecole des Mines
Centre SPIN (web site)
Saint-Etienne, France
UMR CNRS 5307
(+33) 477.499.743
Career
98-00 : process engineer for ExxonMobil
00-05 : PhD thesis on gas hydrates (lien)
05-17 : Associate professor (+ 9 months at Princeton)
17-XX : Professor
Education
1996 : Engineer degree from Mines Saint-Etienne
1996 : Dipl.-Ing in Chemical Engineering from TU Berlin
2005 : PhD degree in Chemical Engineering
2014 : Habilitation in Chemical Engineering
Olivier BONNEFOY
I am professor in Chemical Engineering, with teaching and research activities, since 2005 at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne. I work in the SPIN centre (LINK) on Powder and Grains Science and Technology. I am responsible for the Common Laboratory with Orano and the coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus master MULTIPHASE (LINK). Open to any collaboration.
Teaching activities
Fluids
Fluid mechanics and transfers (handout)
Multiphase flows (handout)
Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) (handout)
Dynamical systems and hydrodynamic instabilities (handout)
Energy
Thermodynamics (handout)
Combustion (slides)
Heat engines (slides)
Powders and grains
Powders and granular mixtures (book)
Geometrical and rheological characterization of granular matter (internal docs)
Research field: granular matter
Processes and phenomena investigated
Powders and grains: flows, mixing and segregation, densification by vibration or compression
Suspensions: rheology of concentrated suspensions, deagglomeration (by ultrasounds, shear), fluidization
Particle synthesis: atomization
Porous media: reactive flows, impregnation
Approaches
Experiments, modeling, numerical simulation
Partnership or service
Short studies, post-docs or PhD thesis (at Mines Saint-Etienne or in industry)
Tools
X-Rays microtomograph, Laser granulometry
Pycnometer, Hg porosimeter, BET analyzer
Powders and liquids rheometers, Flodex
Vibrations benches (horizontal, vertical)
Traction-compresstion rig, acoustic emission bench
Hardness tester, volumenometer, heap angle
Numerical methods: granular (DEM) + fluid (SPH and LBM) with various couplings
Complete list available HERE
Industrial that trust us
Orano, Framatome, CEA
Carbone Lorraine, Ferraz-Shawmut, MERSEN
Solvay, Michelin, IFPEN
Nexter
Kerneos, Imerys, Eramet, Lafarge
Complete list available HERE