Missions

The position is part of the AIDHY project - Decision Support for Responsible Decarbonated Hydrogen Projects). This project, as part of the PEPR Decarbonated Hydrogen programme, aims to contribute to the development of a multi-actor, multi-criteria decision-support approach for assessing the sustainability of the decarbonated hydrogen sector. It brings together 9 academic laboratories, 3 CEA institutes (IFPEN, BRGM, INERIS), an industrial technical centre and a manufacturer (Air Liquide).
The candidate will have to develop a method for analysing the risks associated with the use of hydrogen, based on existing methodologies in the literature.
Carry out an analysis of these methodologies and propose a decision-making tool for analysing the risks associated with the accidental combustion of hydrogen. An inventory database on hydrogen technologies will have to be built.

Activities

The activities will be as follows:
-Analysis of explosion risks
-Simulation of accident scenarios
-Simulation of the fundamental properties of combustion

Skills

The candidate should have the following skills:
- Sound knowledge of combustion, and/or energetics, and/or chemical kinetics of combustion, and/or reactive fluid mechanics
- Solid knowledge of chemical kinetic modelling
- Skills in scientific numerical tools are desirable: Matlab, Python, Labview
- Skills in numerical combustion tools: Chemkin, Cantera, Cosilab.
- Language skills: fluent English (Shockwave team is international).
Personal skills:
- Ability to work in a team on multidisciplinary projects.
- Writing skills: Summary reports, publications in international journals and at international conferences.

Work Context

At the CNRS, in the ICARE UPR3021 laboratory, located on the CNRS campus in Orléans, the candidate will join the CDSE team and will be tasked with carrying out work as part of the AIDHY project (https://www.pepr-hydrogene.fr/projets/activites-transverses/), which is based on a multi-disciplinary consortium combining human and social sciences, economics, natural sciences and engineering sciences with a view to providing decision support for project developers, regulators, territories, third-party guarantors and citizens. The aim is to better characterise and understand the issues, opportunities and risks surrounding decarbonised hydrogen projects, and to assess their level of sustainability and social responsibility.
ICARE is a CNRS Proprietary Unit attached to the Engineering Department, whose main research themes are Combustion and Reactive Systems, Atmosphere and Environment, and Space Propulsion and Atmospheric Re-Entry. The laboratory is made up of 8 researchers, 15 teacher-researchers, 15 ITAs and around thirty doctoral and post-doctoral students. The laboratory consists of 3 buildings located on the CNRS campus in Orléans-la-Source.
The position is located in a sector covered by the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with the regulations, that your arrival be authorised by the competent authority of the MESR.

The position is located in a sector under the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with the regulations, that your arrival is authorized by the competent authority of the MESR.

Constraints and risks

The candidate will be required to :
- Short trips in France and abroad (USA, Germany, Japan) for progress meetings.
- Travel abroad to present work at international conferences.