EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES PROFESSIONAL ...

NAME COUVERT AnnabelleBIRTH DATE January 22, 1974NATIONALITY FrenchADDRESS ENSCR – Laboratory "Sciences Chimiques de Rennes" – Team "Chimie et Ingénierie desProcédés", Avenue du Général Leclerc, CS 50837, 35708 Rennes Cedex 7 (France)Tel : 33.(0)2.23.23.80.48 - Fax: 33.(0)2.23.23.81.20PRESENT JOBProfessor (Skills: Chemical and Environmental Engineering - Air and Water Treatment)♦ EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES20062000Thesis Director Enabling Degree (ENSCR)PhD in Process Engineering (Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Procédés del'Environnement - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse)Award : "Congratulations of the examination committee"1996 DEA Process Engineering Degree required for PhD (LIPE - INSA (France))1996 Industrial Process Engineering Degree (GPI - INSA (France))♦ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2000-Present2000(7 months)Professor in the ENSCR (Chemical Engineering, Water treatment, Air Treatment)Lecturer and Researcher in the Chemical Engineering Department (INSA) –Chemical Engineering teaching and DEA co-supervisor1999 Générale des Eaux – Scientific visits of the sewage treatment plant of Toulouse1998-1999 Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department (INSA) – ChemicalEngineering teaching (kinetics, calorimetry, absorption, liquid-liquid extraction,distillation, methyl-acetate synthesis, heat transfer, conduction)1997-2000 PhD student, thesis supported by Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux – "Etude d'unréacteur air-lift rectangulaire à recirculation interne : Hydrodynamique etTransfert de matière gaz-liquide" : experimental study and modelling1996(1 month)1995(2 months)Advanced training period for DEA (Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux) – Work on anindustrial denitrification plant, the TURBO DNTraining period (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal and Bell-Canada) -Validation of an expert system software dedicated to check the conformity of acompany in comparison to an environmental or juridical law♦ TEACHING (within ENSCR)

Magisterial Courses:- Fluid flows in porous media – Application to environmentCourse about flows in porous media (characterisation of a porous media,pressure drop in porous media)– Application to packed tower (hydrodynamics,design) – Fluidisation fluid-solid (key-velocities, classification)- Gas-liquid reactors – Application to environmentCharacterisation of gas-liquid contactors generally used in environmentapplications – Listing of methods used to perform this characterisation in termsof hydrodynamics and mass transfer - Design- Colloids treatment in waterCoagulation, flocculation, settling – Designing of apparatus for WWTP andDWTP- Chemical kineticsKinetic reactions in homogeneous phases (liquid or gaz) – Partial orders, kineticconstants, reaction mechanismsPractical courses:Chemical engineering and Environmental engineering (fluid mechanics in emptytubes or porous media, unit operations, thermal and mass transfer,thermodynamics, Residence Time Distribution, ultrafiltration…)Projects:- Environmental engineering (design)- Environment projects (waste: solid, air and water; drinking water)♦ RESEARCH TOPICS (within the team "CIP", theme Physico-chemical and biologicaltreatment processes, ENSCR)Gas treatment (Odour and VOC)- Absorption and Oxidation Processes- Hydrodynamics- Mass transfer- Chemical reaction (neutralisation, oxidation…)- Application to deodorisationDrinking water treatment- Coagulation Flocculation Processes- Adsorption, Membrane Processes- Oxidation Processes- Application to NOM removal