Total, a long-standing CERE industry Consortium member, is one of the world’s largest energy corporations. Its in-house Research & Development infrastructure spans the entire development process from laboratory testing to industrial scale production. Mr. Freddy Garcia heads the Process Thermodynamics and Simulation group in Paris.
“This is my first CERE Discussion meeting. I am looking forward to the scientific presentations and to catch up on the latest developments within thermodynamic modelling. I am especially looking for areas where we and CERE have common interests.”
One such area might be electrolytes, Mr. Garcia elaborates:
“CERE is doing quite a lot of interesting work on electrolytes. We meet electrolytes in various contexts at our production facilities, but the current tools for modelling the behaviour of electrolytes can be limited for particular cases. Even though we often tend to go around the problem when we see electrolytes formed, sometimes this cannot be avoided. It would be better to have the tools for facing these problems head on.”
Further, the academic content is not the only focus for the Total representative:
“The conference is a nice opportunity for meeting other industry representatives. It is always interesting to hear what other companies and the academia are doing. In general, I just try to keep an open mind when I come here.”