Technology transfer France

T. I., and Werkoff, R, Heat Transfer Problems for the Production of Hydrogen from Geothermal Energy, paper presented at Heat SET 2005, Heat Transfer in Components and Systems for Sustainable Energy Technologies, Grenoble, France, April 2005. 

The conntries where drng discovery has traditionally taken place are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and France. In 1987, six of the leading fifteen prodncts were American, five British, two Japanese, one Swiss and one German. It was expected that, with technology transfer, the nnmber of non-American contribntors wonld increase, perhaps to involve Scandinavia, India or China. The reverse has happened. By... 

High pressure technology transfer and diversification took many avenues, though most new innovations continued to appear from BASF. First, in 1923, was methanol production at the Leuna ammonia factory, and based on the work of Matthias Pier. BASF had patented a high pressure methanol process in 1914, but no further studies were carried out until after G. Patart in France applied for a similar patent (1921). In this case the same equipment could be used to manufacture ammonia or methanol, according to demand. Synthesis gas, the mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, was used directly, without separation, to prepare methanol. In a similar way, isopropanol was manufactured under high pressures. 

Schutz, W., Minges, J., Experiments on Heat Transfer and Sodium Aerosols in the Cover gas for Future Breeder Reactors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Liquid Metal Engineering and Technology - Avignon, France, 1988. 

Fig. 5.6 Didier Astruc (bom 1946 in Versailles) studied chemistry at the University of Rennes, where he received his Ph.D. with Professor Rene Dabard in 1975. He then moved to MIT as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, where he worked with the 2005 Nobel laureate Richard R. Schrock. After being a Lecturer and Master Lecturer at the University Institute for Technology of Saint-Nazaire, he worked for the CNRS at Rennes where he became Maitre de Recherche in 1982. Since 1983 he is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux I and has been promoted to the exceptional class of university professors in 1996. His research interests comprise preparative and mechanistic organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and electron transfer processes. More recently, he has developed the synthesis and supramolecular electronics of organometallic dendrimers. He is the author of Electron Transfer and Radical Processes in Transition-Metal Chemistry and of the standard textbook Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis . A recipient of several major research awards, Didier is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a member of the Academia Europeae, London, and the German Academy Leopoldina, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (photo by courtesy from D. A.)...

Rollet, V., Transfer de matiere en pervaporation, application a la deshydratation de melanges complexes, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Technology of Compiegne, France, 2000. 

In 1969, the Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear-IEN (Nuclear Engineering Institute) initiated its activities related to fast reactors. As part of a contract with TECHNICATOME (France), a thermal-fast reactor has been designed, but it was not constructed due to problems with fuel supply. In 1972, a small sodium loop (100 KW) was inaugurated for studying heat transfer and several aspects of sodium technology. 

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