environmental odors

Learning to deal with offensive environmental odors

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What is an offensive environmental odor? How can it be defined, and how should its consequences be managed? This is what students will learn in the serious game “Les ECSPER à Smellville”, part of the Air Quality MOOC. This educational tool…
fine particles, Véronique Riffault, IMT Lille Douai

What are fine particles?

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During peak pollution events, everyone is talking about them. Fine particles are often accused of being toxic. Unfortunately, they do not only come out during episodes of high pollution. Véronique Riffault, a researcher in atmospheric sciences…
space, René Garello, IMT Atlantique

Climate change as seen from space

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René Garello, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he French National Centre for Space Research has recently presented two projects based on greenhouse gas emission…
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Julien Bras: nature is his playground

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Cellulose is one of the most abundant molecules in nature. At the nanoscale, its properties allow it to be used for promising applications in several fields. Julien Bras, a chemist at Grenoble INP, is working to further develop the use of this…

Fine particles are dangerous, and not just during pollution peaks

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Véronique Riffault, IMT Lille Douai – Institut Mines-Télécom and François Mathé, IMT Lille Douai – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he French Agency for Food, Environmental…
Underwater pipeline, Pipeline sous-marin, hydrocarbures, hydrates de méthane, crystallization, cristallisation

Understanding methane hydrate formation to revolutionize pipelines

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Since hydrocarbon is always drawn from deep in the sea floor, oil companies face potential obstruction problems in their pipelines due to the formation of solid compounds: methane hydrates. Ana Cameirao, an engineer and PhD specializing in industrial…
vigisat, surveillance, environnement

VIGISAT: monitoring and protection of the environment by satellite

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Following on from our series on the platforms provided by the Télécom & Société numérique Carnot institute, we will now look at VIGISAT, based near Brest. This collaborative hub is also a project focusing on the satellite monitoring…
renewable energy storage, stockage énergies renouvelables

What is renewable energy storage?

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The storage of green energy is an issue which concerns many sectors, whether for energy transition or for supplying power to connected objects using batteries. Thierry Djenizian, a researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, explains the main problems…
dam break, optical fiber

Dam-break phenomenon in optical fibers

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Last May, for the first time, researchers from the University of Lille and IMT Lille-Douai exposed a photon dam breaking in an optical fiber. These results provided the experimental confirmation for an old theory that dates back over 50 years.…
data science, pierre tandeo

Environmental data: data science takes on the challenge

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From July 3 to July 7, a series of conferences was held on data science and the environment. The event, organized by IMT Atlantique, builds bridges between two communities between whom there has been little collaboration in Europe so far. Environmental…