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About IMT Mines Albi

A school of the ministry in charge of industry, IMT Mines Albi is a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom, the number one group of engineering and management graduate schools in France.

At the forefront of industrial and academic stakes on the national and international scenes, it acts as a scientific and economic leader by combining its 4 missions in a virtuous circle and driving innovation:

• a school of generalist engineers to lead and manage sustainable transitions;
• research teams, distributed within its 3 training and research centers, which work on the emergence and improvement of industrial processes, in particular on its 5 platforms;
• a business partner who supports new dynamics, stimulates business creations, and cultivates entrepreneurship;
• a school that promotes the dissemination of scientific and technical culture in its territory.

About RAPSODEE research center

The research work of RAPSODEE (Research of Albi in Process Engineering of Divided Solids, Energy and Environment), UMR CNRS 5302, is based on a multi-scale process engineering approach oriented "products with controlled properties". Part of this work focuses on the valorization of bioresources (biomass and organic co-products) by thermochemical processes to obtain different products such as gases (syngas, methane, hydrogen), liquids (pyrolysis oils, alternative fuels) and functional solids (adsorbents, catalysts, carbon fibers, ceramics), and the valorization of molecules of

biological interest (proteins, polyphenols...) from agricultural sources that do not compete with those already used for food.

The reduction of the environmental impact by the development of green processes (at laboratory and pilot scale) is one of the main issues. RAPSODEE is part of the laboratory of excellence (LabEx) SOLSTICE (SOLAR: Science, Technology and Innovation for Energy Conversion).

To federate skills and better ensure innovation and technology transfer to partner companies, RAPSODEE has two research and innovation platforms, VALTHERA located on the campus of IMT Mines Albi, and GALA® located on the ZAC Causse Espace d'Entreprises in Castres.