IFP Energies Nouvelles is a public-sector research, industrial innovation and training center active in the fields of energy, transport and the environment.
Its mission is to provide public players and industry with efficient, economical, clean and sustainable technologies to take up the three major challenges facing society in the 21st century: climate change and environmental impacts, energy diversification and water resource management. It boasts world-class expertise.
IFP Energies Nouvelles sets out 5 complementary, inextricably-linked strategic priorities that are central to its public-interest mission :
- producing fuels, chemical intermediates and energy from renewable sources,
- producing energy while mitigating the environmental footprint,
- developing fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly transport,
- producing environmentally-friendly fuels and chemical intermediates from fossil resources,
- providing environmentally-friendly technologies and pushing back the current boundaries of oil and gas reserves.
An integral part of IFP Energies Nouvelles, its graduate engineering school prepares future generations to take up these challenges.
IFPEN Transports Energie Carnot Insititute research topics
In the field of transport, IFP Energies nouvelles develops technologies to reduce the emissions and fuel consumption associated with road and air transport. Its research work relates to the improvement of conventional powertrain performance, assessment and validation of alternative, low-carbon fuels and vehicle electrification, in particular. It also develops technologies and processes for the production of low-carbon electricity and heat.
The research programs center around:
- low-carbon IC engines,
- vehicle hybridization and electrification,
- fuels and biofuels,
- aircraft engines,
- pollutant after-treatment technologies,
- vehicle synthesis and integration,
- low-carbon energy production for ground installations.
Laboratories in the field of the Carnot institute :
- "Facilities and technical support" department Operation of the test station.
- "Systems modelling and simulation” Development and use of 3D aerothermochemical physical
- models and calculation codes, and engine and vehicle system modelling.
- "Engine technology" department Design, development, and refinement of innovative engine concepts for light vehicles, aimed at reducing pollutant emissions and enhancing fuel efficiency and driving pleasure.
- "Fuels – Lubricants – Emissions" department Expertise in the matching of engines and fuels, in the matching of engines and lubricants, and in metrology and the precise evaluation of emissions of pollutants, whether regulated or not.
- "Engine laboratory department, IFP Energies nouvelles -Lyon" Development and validation of pollution abatement systems, development of combustion systems for trucks, and development of CNG engines.
- "Applied mathematics" department Expertise in numerical schemas, solvers, optimization algorithms, statistics, and data analysis.
- "Signal processing, automation and control" department Real-time computing, automation, signal processing, and electronic measurement acquisition techniques.
- “Engine systems analysis” Understanding and optimization of the physical phenomena occurring during combustion processes using optical diagnostics devices adapted to engines.
