Voué à renforcer les capacités expérimentales du CEREGE, à concevoir et mettre en place des pilotes, prototypes et démonstrateurs industriels innovants en lien avec la transition environnementale et l’économie circulaire, la plateforme technologique CIRENE aura toute sa place à quelques mètres du CEREGE, Unité de Recherche interdisciplinaire, tournée vers l’innovation, les partenariats socio-économiques régionaux, nationaux et internationaux, et de l’antenne CISAM+ de Beltram.
All of the experimental devices grouped together in the same place will make the CIRENE hall a unique experimental centre within the Environmental Sciences community.
The CIRENE Centre will enable research to be carried out downstream of human activities through the characterisation of environmental risks as well as new technologies for treating contaminated environments. Also upstream of human activities by developing new materials and processes that are safer and more sustainable throughout the life cycle.
CIRENE groups together devices dedicated to the ageing of materials (climatic chamber, soxhlets), to the environmental risks associated with emerging technologies and advanced materials (mesocosms, phytotron), to the recycling of strategic metals contained in waste (high-energy spectrometer), to the treatment and reuse of water (bioreactors, lysimeters, planted filters), to the storage of C in soils (incubators), as well as X-ray-based instrumental developments (HERMES, TXRF). These devices have been obtained within the framework of ANR, H2020, industrial and regional projects over the last ten years for an amount exceeding 500 K€.
