Biorefinery and Bio-based Materials Grenoble INP, Graduate schools of Engineering and Management, Université Grenoble Alpes

Overview

At the end of this Master’s program in Biorefinery and Bio-based Materials from Grenoble INP, Graduate schools of Engineering and Management, Université Grenoble Alpes, forthcoming specialists will be able to implement biomass transformation processes and provide solutions that contribute to reducing the use of fossil resources, to intensifying recycling operations and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In particular, they will develop skills related to:

• biorefinery processes
• chemical, physico-chemical and biotechnical means of obtaining elementary building blocks from biomass, essentially from wood
• biosourced materials, biopolymers and biocomposites

These skills are particularly needed today by companies and international organisations in the textile, plastics, packaging, energy, food and pharmaceutical sectors.

With the Master Biorefinery & Biomaterials, graduates will be fully able to meet the new challenges, especially environmental, of the 21st century.

Specificities

With its international dimension, all courses are taught in English. With students from a wide range of backgrounds and origins, this Master’s program offers an unprecedented opportunity to meet people from different cultures and thus develop the ability to work and manage projects in an international context.

Within this unique Master’s program in France, the main topics covered are:

• Biorefinery, fundamental aspects (gas, biomass, plant chemical components, polymer chemistry)
• Biorefinery for energy (bioethanol and biomethane production, diester production)
• Biorefinery for bioproducts (existing biorefinery and conversion processes)
• Bio-based materials (biopolymers, bio-based polymers, composites, new bio-based materials)
• Sustainability assessment (life cycle assessment principles, environmental factors, energy consumption)