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Biogas upgrading with an advanced Biorefinery for CO2 conversion


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-25-0286  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Life Sciences

Thesis topics

Biogas upgrading with an advanced Biorefinery for CO2 conversion

Contract

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Job description

The use of renewable energy sources is a major challenge for the coming decades. One way of meeting the growing demand for energy is to valorize waste. Among the various strategies currently developed, the recovery of biogas from anaerobic digestion plants appears to be a promising approach. Biogas is composed mainly of methane, but also of unused CO2 (around 40%). The project proposed here is to reform biogas using a renewable biohydrogen source to convert the remaining CO2 into pure CH4. We propose to set up a stand-alone advanced biorefinery that will combine photoproduction of hydrogen from waste (e.g.: lactoserum) by the bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus combined with the CO2 present in the biogas in a biomethanation unit containing a culture of Methanococcus maripaludis, a methanogenic archaea able to produce CH4 from CO2 and H2 only (according to the Sabatier reaction). The aim is to produce CH4 in an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly way.

University / doctoral school

Chimie et Sciences du Vivant (EDCSV)
Université Grenoble Alpes

Thesis topic location

Site

Grenoble

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

PERARD Julien julien.perard@cea.fr
CNRS
LCBM / BEE
LCBM/ IRIG/CEA/Grenoble
0438784451

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

CAVAZZA Christine christine.cavazza@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRIG//CBM
17, avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble cedex 9
(+33) (4) 38 78 91 10

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