Ecole d'été "Environmental Sciences"

Leaders : Gilles Mailhot (UCA), Marcello Brigante (UCA) and Khalil Hanna (ENSCR)
Open to PhD and Master students (28h courses, 12h of practical work, 20h of French courses, 6 conferences, scientific visits, cultural programme, …)

Environmental Sciences: Chemical Analysis, Characterisation and Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Waters 

The participants will be welcomed on Saturday 22nd June 2019 at Paris and the courses will began on Monday 24th June 2019. The summer school is jointly organized by the University Clermont Auvergne (UCA) in Clermont Ferrand (center of France) and by the National School of Chemistry (ENSCR) in Rennes (west part of France). The two cities are surrounded by exceptional natural environment with diversity of landscapes, more particularly with the unique volcanic landscape near Clermont-Ferrand and with the very famous site of Mont Saint-Michel near Rennes. The scientific topic of this summer school is based on one of the main challenges of the XXIst century, the protection of the environment and more particularly the problems of pollution impacting the quality of soils and of water resources. The two institutions involved are particularly adequate to welcome this summer school, and have great experience in the organization of such events. In fact, a strong scientific potential exists in the field of environmental chemistry and more particularly in water and soil treatments but also in upscaling for clean-up technologies.

LECTURES 

I) Chemical kinetics (6h): Pr. Marcello BRIGANTE 

Homogeneous and heterogeneous kinetics 
Advancement, conversion degree and thermodynamic of reactions 
Radical reactions, linear, ramified and steady-state approach. 
Half-life time determination and kinetic constant and chemical kinetic models 

II) Analytical chemistry (8h): Drs. Nicolas CIMETIERE and Guillaume VOYARD 

UV-vis, fluorescence and IR spectroscopy 
HPLC, GC and Ionic chromatography 
Mass spectrometry and NMR 
Application to the quantification and characterization of organic and inorganic compounds in water and soil. 

III) Biological and chemical depollution processes (8h): Drs. Pascale BESSE-HOGGAN, Aymen 

ASSADI and Sylvain Giraudet 
Microbiological remediation of water and soils 
Homogeneous and heterogeneous oxidation catalysis 
Risk assessment and remediation technologies 
Upscaling and field applications 

IV) Iron chemistry and application to the depollution processes (6h): Pr. Khalil HANNA and Dr. 

Gilles MAILHOT 
Iron, occurrence and water (photo)-chemistry 
Fe-based catalysts: principles and applications 
Use of iron species in advanced oxidation processes (AOP’s) 
Advantages, outlooks and future prospects 
Required level: High level under graduate students, Master students and PhD students.