Master Materials Science and Engineering Program Biorefinery and Biomaterials

Overview

Master

National diploma
  • Degree awarded Master
  • Graduation year Bac + 5
  • Mention
    • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Location
    • GRENOBLE Campus
  • Duration One year
  • Available as
    • Initial education
    • Continuing education

Summary

The aim of the Master’s program in Biorefinery and Biomaterials (Master’s Degree, One Year Graduate Program) in France is to train professionals specialising in the problems of biomass valorisation, in particular through the development and improvement of processes allowing its transformation into biomaterials, chemical products or energy sources.

This Master’s program is available to students who have completed at least 4 years of higher education or 1 year of graduate studies (the equivalent of 240 ECTS credits), in France or abroad. It is a degree course of the Master in Materials Science and Engineering.

Several scholarships are available, in France or depending on the country of origin, to cover all or part of the tuition fees as well as the costs associated with the studies. This program also includes a final-year internship lasting 5-6 months, either in a company or in a laboratory, which pays around €600 a month if it takes place in France.

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Objectives

At the end of this Master’s program in Biorefinery and Biomaterials, 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)
  • Biomaterials (biopolymers, bio-based polymers, composites, new biomaterials)
  • Sustainability assessment (life cycle assessment principles, environmental factors, energy consumption)

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  • Training partners

    Laboratories

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    The training is in line with the themes of the Tec21 Laboratory of Excellence, the Polynat Carnot Institute, the CDP Glyco@Alps, the IDEX of the Université Grenoble Alpes, and the Axelera Chemistry-Environment Competitiveness Cluster.

    Companies

    Academic and industrial teachers

    Entreprises

    Industrial partnerships (not exhaustive)

    Novamont, Dow Corning, Roquette, Cargill, JRS Rettenmaier, Smurfit Kappa, Solvay, Lafarge, Arjowiggings, L’Oréal, Tetra Pak, Arkema, Schneider Electric, Seppic, Novasep, Degrémont, Condat Lubrifiant, Air Liquide, Siegwerk, Fibre Excellence, Total, Soprema, Ahlstrom-Munksjö, CEA, CTP, FCBA, Xylem.

Admission

Program

International

Prospects


 

Your contacts for academic information

Julien BRAS
Head of the Master Materials Science and Engineering Program Biorefinery and Biomaterials

Education contact
pagora.contact-masterbio2@grenoble-inp.fr
 

Internships

Master thesis abroad possible.