History of the LRGP
The Reactions and Process Engineering Laboratory was created on January 1, 2010 as a CNRS unit with Gabriel Wild, CNRS Research Director, at its head. The LRGP is the result of the merger of 4 research units: the Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Sciences (LSGC, CNRS’s own unit), the Department of Physical Chemistry of Reactions (DCPR, CNRS-INPL joint unit), the Laboratory of Thermodynamics of Polyphase Environments (LTMP, university team), and an industrial chair, the Centre for Engineering of Rheologically Complex Environments (GEMICO).
The LRGP has become a joint unit of the CNRS and the University of Lorraine with Laurent Falk, CNRS Research Director and specialist in Chemical Reaction Engineering, as Director. This merger was not a simple aggregation of teams but the formation of multidisciplinary groups, particularly in the fields of bioprocesses, pyrolysis, thermodynamics and energy, but also in modeling, simulation and data processing.