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Rochdi S, Lacaze L, Couvert A, Touboulic S, Delamarre J, Georges J, Le Gouevec F, Chauvin A, Malbert CH, Val-laillet D, Derbé F, Thibault R. Muscle phenotyping of a minipig model of malnutrition. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2021.09.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Couvert A, García‐Abuín A, Gómez‐Díaz D, Navaza JM, Rodríguez-Dafonte P. Influence of a Second Liquid Phase upon Carbon Dioxide Chemical Absorption. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering 2013. [DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2012-0095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This work analyzes carbon dioxide mass transfer rate during chemical absorption from a gas phase to a liquid–liquid system based on an aqueous phase (glucosamine or pyrrolidine solutions) and an organic one. Two different kinds of silicone oil with different viscosity were used to perform the liquid phases, and it allows the analysis of the influence of this variable upon mass transfer rate. In these systems, a surfactant (Tween80) was added to stabilize the liquid–liquid system, and therefore, the influence of the presence of this surfactant in the liquid phase was studied. This substance produces a positive effect upon carbon dioxide absorption rate in glucosamine aqueous solutions, but the opposite effect was observed for the other amine employed in this work. Also, the influence caused by different operation variables, such as the gas flow-rate fed to the bubble contactor or the silicone oil concentration in the liquid phase, was studied.
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Gattobigio GL, Couvert A, Reinaudi G, Georgeot B, Guéry-Odelin D. Optically guided beam splitter for propagating matter waves. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:030403. [PMID: 22861829 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.030403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2012] [Revised: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We study experimentally and theoretically a beam splitter setup for guided atomic matter waves. The matter wave is a guided atom laser that can be tuned from quasimonomode to a regime where many transverse modes are populated, and propagates in a horizontal dipole beam until it crosses another horizontal beam at 45°. We show that depending on the parameters of this X configuration, the atoms can all end up in one of the two beams (the system behaves as a perfect guide switch), or be split between the four available channels (the system behaves as a beam splitter). The splitting regime results from a chaotic scattering dynamics. The existence of these different regimes turns out to be robust against small variations of the parameters of the system. From numerical studies, we also propose a scheme that provides a robust and controlled beam splitter in two channels only.
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- G L Gattobigio
- Laboratoire de Collisions Agrégats Réactivité, CNRS UMR 5589, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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Gattobigio GL, Couvert A, Georgeot B, Guéry-Odelin D. Exploring classically chaotic potentials with a matter wave quantum probe. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 107:254104. [PMID: 22243080 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.254104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We study an experimental setup in which a quantum probe, provided by a quasimonomode guided atom laser, interacts with a static localized attractive potential whose characteristic parameters are tunable. In this system, classical mechanics predicts a transition from regular to chaotic behavior as a result of the coupling between the different degrees of freedom. Our experimental results display a clear signature of this transition. On the basis of extensive numerical simulations, we discuss the quantum versus classical physics predictions in this context. This system opens new possibilities for investigating quantum scattering, provides a new testing ground for classical and quantum chaos, and enables us to revisit the quantum-classical correspondence.
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- G L Gattobigio
- Laboratoire de Collisions Agrégats Réactivité, CNRS UMR 5589, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse (UPS), 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse CEDEX 4, France
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Turpin A, Couvert A, Laplanche A, Paillier A. Mass transfer and deodorization efficiency in a countercurrent spray tower for low superficial gas velocities. CAN J CHEM ENG 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Darracq G, Couvert A, Couriol C, Amrane A, Le Cloirec P. Absorption and biodegradation of hydrophobic volatile organic compounds: determination of Henry's constants and biodegradation levels. Water Sci Technol 2009; 59:1315-1322. [PMID: 19380996 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Biodegradation of three volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was studied. Toluene, dimethylsulphide (DMS), and dimethyldisulphide (DMDS) were introduced into flasks filled with emulsions of Di-2-EthylHexylAdipate (DEHA) in water, containing biomass (activated sludge). The VOC concentrations were analysed in the gas, organic and aqueous phases, and compared to the initial VOC quantities introduced in order to deduce their consumption by biomass. Toluene and DMDS were completely consumed, and then removed from the gas and the organic phases, except when DEHA and water are in the same volume ratio, which appears to be extreme environmental conditions for bacterial growth. The high DMS volatility resulted in an important gas loss, leading to a lower amount of DMS available for activated sludge growth. For all the VOC experiments, some components, characteristics of the DEHA degradation, including 2-ethylhexanal, 2-ethylhexanol, 2-ethylhexanoic acid and adipic acid, were identified.
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- G Darracq
- ENSCR, Sciences Chimiques de Rennes-Chimie Ingénierie des Procédés, CNRS, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, Rennes 35700, France.
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Couvert A, Sanchez C, Laplanche A, Renner C. Scrubbing intensification for sulphur and ammonia compounds removal. Chemosphere 2008; 70:1510-7. [PMID: 17889252 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2007] [Revised: 08/10/2007] [Accepted: 08/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Operating conditions were optimised in a new compact scrubber in order to remove odorous sulphur (H(2)S and CH(3)SH) and ammonia compounds. The influence of the superficial gas and liquid velocities, pH, contactor length, inlet concentrations (sulphur compounds, ammonia, chlorine), and the mixing effects was characterised. Whereas abatement increased with velocities, pH and the chlorine concentration, an increase of inlet CH(3)SH concentration drove to a worse efficiency of process. Moreover, the contactor length and the presence of another pollutant in the gas phase only played a role on the methylmercaptan removal. Finally, the reactive consumptions were estimated at the outlet of the reactor. The chlorination by-product quantification permitted to understand the under-stoichiometry.
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- A Couvert
- Sciences Chimiques de Rennes - CIP, ENSCR, CNRS, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35700 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Couvert A, Grandguillot G, Féliers C. Investigation of by-product formation during the irradiation of drinking water with a medium pressure lamp. Environ Technol 2007; 28:841-51. [PMID: 17879843 DOI: 10.1080/09593332808618846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The goal of this study was to determine the effect of UV irradiation with a polychromatic spectrum on natural organic matter. Several irradiation tests were carried out with or without cut-off of wavelengths lower than 240 nm on water samples coming from different drinking water plants. DOC, BDOC, SEC analyses, chlorine demand, nitrate and nitrite concentration measurements were made. Changes were noticed as regarding SEC and chlorine demand analyses. Indeed a consistent trend of breaking-up NOM molecules into smaller fragments was observed. Moreover, the chlorine demand increased with the dose when the cut-off filter was not applied, whereas a maximum value resulted when the cut-off filter was applied. Most of these results were obtained at high UV doses (40000 J x m(-2)), suggesting that UV irradiation would not have a noticeable effect on the water samples tested at doses usually used for drinking water treatment.
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- A Couvert
- Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6226, Equipe Chimie et Ingénierie des Procédés - ENSCR, Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35000 Rennes, France
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Treguer R, Couvert A, Wolbert D, Suty H, Randon G. Particulate products and new polymers for a more efficient removal of dissolved organic matter in drinking water resources. Environ Technol 2007; 28:861-9. [PMID: 17879845 DOI: 10.1080/09593332808618850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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More restricting legislation on dissolved organic carbon (DOC), especially when applied to waters with high DOC contents and low turbidity, urges the drinking water industry to improve the removal of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Jar tests were carried out on sand-filtered water (SFW) and raw water (RW), with respectively 50 different particulate compounds and different cationic polymers. Analytical measurements of DOC and UV absorbance at 254 nm, as well as a characterisation by size exclusion chromatography (SEC), were performed in order to determine the efficiency of the process. Experiments on SFW showed that activated carbon was the only compound able to remove efficiently the residual DOC remaining after conventional treatments (up to 40% of reduction). Other trials on RW using mixes of ferric chloride (FeCl3) and cationic polymers (polyamines and polyDADMAC) pointed out that the molecular mass and the reticulation ratios have a significant influence on the efficiency of the treatment. Finally, the addition of activated carbons to the previous reagents significantly improved the observed removal efficiencies by similar amounts.
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- R Treguer
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6226, Chimie et Ingénierie des Procédés - Avenue du Génŕal Leclerc - 35700 Rennes, France
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Couvert A, Charron I, Laplanche A, Renner C, Patria L, Requieme B. Simulation and Prediction of Methyl-mercaptan Removal by Chemical Scrubbing with Hydrogen Peroxide. Chem Eng Technol 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ceat.200600221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Couvert A, Charron I, Laplanche A, Renner C, Patria L, Requieme B. Treatment of odorous sulphur compounds by chemical scrubbing with hydrogen peroxide—Application to a laboratory plant. Chem Eng Sci 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.07.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This work presents the performances of a new odour scrubber. The reactor is packed with a new structure which enables co-current operations at high gas velocities. Energy consumption and removal efficiency of sulphur compounds by oxidative alkaline scrubbing were studied. The influence of both superficial gas (U(SG)) and liquid (U(SL)) velocities, ranging from 5.6 to 28 m.s(-1) and 0.016 to 0.055 m.s(-1) respectively, were quantified. Thus, the range of 0.5 to 5 liquid-to-gas mass ratio (L/G) was studied. A comparison has been made with a previous study on static mixers (SM) and with classical random packed towers (PT). It has been shown that superficial liquid and gas velocities have a significant influence on these parameters. Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) abatement reached values up to 99%. As concerns methylmercaptan (CH3SH), the maximal removal efficiency was 87%. As a result, if well scaled-up, our reactor can be a small single stage efficient apparatus for the elimination of low concentrations of sulphur compounds as H2S and CH3SH in high flow rates of polluted gas effluents.
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- C Sanchez
- Anjou Recherche - Veolia Water - Chemin de la Digue BP76, 78603 Maisons-Laffitte, France.
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Charron I, Féliers C, Couvert A, Laplanche A, Patria L, Requieme B. Use of hydrogen peroxide in scrubbing towers for odor removal in wastewater treatment plants. Water Sci Technol 2004; 50:267-274. [PMID: 15484770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The aim of this work was to replace sodium hypochlorite (NaCIO) with hydrogen peroxide (H202) in chemical scrubbing towers, in order to avoid the formation of chlorinated species, harmful for human health. Some previous studies have already shown the ability of H2O2 to treat the hydrogen sulfide (H2S) pollution. However, an important decomposition of the oxidant was observed in the scrubbing solution (carbonates, transition metal and high pH are responsible for this decomposition) leading to high reactant consumption. Consequently, this study first focused on research into a compound able to reduce the hydrogen peroxide degradation. Experiments were conducted on a pilot unit (3,000 m3 h(-1)) in a wastewater treatment plant. The sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) proved to be a good scrubbing solution stabilizer. A very good removal of hydrogen sulfide (up to 98%) was also obtained. Finally, the study resulted in the determination of the best operating conditions to achieve both an efficient and economical process.
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- I Charron
- Anjou Recherche, Chemin de la digue BP 76, 78 603 Maisons Laffitte, Cedex, France.
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