Context :
The PhD Thesis will be carried out in the context of the ECRA (European Cement Research Academy) Academic Chair « From CO2 to Energy: Carbon Capture in Cement Production and its Re-use » at the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs) of UMONS. This Chair is focusing on the study, for the application in the cement industry, of CO2 capture (post-combustion and total/partial oxy-fuel combustion), purification (de-SOx and de-NOx) and conversion (into valuable compounds such as methane or methanol). This process chain is conventionally called CCUS (Carbon Capture Utilization and/or Storage).
Since the creation of the Chair in 2013, two PhD theses have been successfully completed (ECRA Chair Phase I, 2013-2016), two other PhD Theses will be finalized by the end of 2019 (ECRA Chair Phase II, 2016-2019) and the present proposed PhD thesis is one of the two new PhD Theses that will be carried out under the ECRA Chair Phase III (2019-2022). Post-doc works are also regularly performed in parallel of PhDs.