Environment

Preservation of both the planet and its environmental balances for future generations is a vital challenge at the start of this century. The problems to be resolved are numerous, critical and urgent: water, energy, controlling pollution, evolution of the climate, North-South balance, maintaining bio-diversity, human health… They are all inter-disciplinary and the solutions that one can devise are also inter-disciplinary.
The generalist engineer therefore has a major role to play because he brings technological innovation – the essential vector for progress and original solutions, and at the same time incorporating and mastering the many other facts of these ever more complex problems.

Associated laboratories

Almost all laboratories in the Research Centre have research programmes related to sustainable development:

• Chemical Engineering Laboratory http://www.lgpm.ecp.fr/
  (In this context, the School has created a Chair of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnologies, based at Châtenay-Malabry and Reims )
• Mechanics, Structures and Materials Laboratory (MSSMat), CNRS UMR 8579 (http://www.mssmat.ecp.fr/)
• Energetics and Combustion Laboratory (E.M.2C), CNRS UPR 288 (http://www.em2c.ecp.fr/)
• Applied Mathematics and Systems Laboratory (MAS) (http://www.mas.ecp.fr/new/)
• Industrial Engineering Laboratory (LGI) (http://www.lgi.ecp.fr/pmwiki.php)

Options, courses, Advanced Masters and Masters

Engineering course:

The School has an option dedicated to this subject: Environment, Materials and Life Science
Other options also introduce this challenge:

• Energy (joint option with Supélec)
• Industrial Engineering
• Physics and Applications
• Sustainable Development and Construction)

 

Master:

Sustainable development is a theme introduced in 4 of the Ecole Centrale Paris’ Masters:

• Field of Applied Sciences

Speciality: Processes, Environment and Biotechnology

Speciality: Civil Engineering and Environment

Speciality: Nanosciences

• Field of Energy (ENE)

Speciality: Energy materials and processes

Speciality: Electrification and automobile propulsion

• Field: « Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, speciality: Modeling and simulation
  
• Master in Nuclear Energy (in English)

Advanced Masters: 

The School offers a Master in the field of sustainable development: Sustainable Development and Construction  

Courses

Common track

Electives

• PR2100 – Water Treatment and Underground Water Protection
• PR2940 – Chemical and Environmental Engineering Laboratory
• PR3100 – Design of Industrial Processes for Energy, the Environment and Biotechnologies 1
• PR3100 - Design of Industrial Processes for Energy, the Environment and Biotechnologies 2
• PR4300 – Cogeneration and Energy production
• PR5110 – Life Sciences and Biotechnology
   

Conferences

The “Challenges” conference programme for 2010-2011 was as follows:

•  Introductory conference (Valérie Masson Delmotte, CEA – GIEC, “Climatic warming”)

as well as 8 teaching conferences about:

• The financial sector and sustainable development
• The environment and waste materials in the nuclear industry
• Climatic change – adaptation and scepticism
• Water
• Waste
• Methanisation
• Desalination of sea water
• Sustainable suburbs

Companies incubated at Centrale Paris

Companies now incubated or which have left the incubator

• Agora energy recovers energy from moving crowds, transforms walking into electricity (http://www.agoraenergy.fr/);
• Alterrya produces electricity and green forms of heat (http://www.alterrya.com/);
• Aqua Omnes is developing a technology for low-cost desalinisation (http://www.centraleparis-incubateur.fr/fr/v/entrepreneur/aqua-omnes);
• Avenir Investir is an Environmental Consultancy specialised in the design of buildings with very low energy consumption and very high energy performance (http://www.avenir-investir.fr/);
• Senova Renovation is the first specialist Thermal Consultancy for private consumers (http://www.senova-renovation.com/);
• Amoes develops tomorrow’s building with “positive energy” (http://www.amoes.com/);
• Watt Consulting offers its skills in energy conversion and electrical reliability (http://www.watt-consulting.com/index.php/fr)