Biomass is one of the renewable and non-conventional energy sources and it includes municipal solid wastes and animal wastes in addition to agricultural residue. Concentrated animal feeding operations produce large quantities of cattle biomass which might result in land and water pollution if left untreated. Different methods are employed to extract the available energy from the cattle biomass (CB) which includes co-firing and gasification. There are two types of CB: Feedlot biomass (FB), animal waste from feedlots and dairy biomass (DB), animal waste from dairy farms. Experiments were performed in the part on gasification of both FB and DB. Earlier studies on gasification of DB with different steam-fuel ratios resulted in increased production of hydrogen. In the present study, dairy biomass was gasified in a medium with enriched oxygen percentage varying from 24% to 28%. The effect of enriched air mixture, equivalence ratio and steam-fuel ratio on the performance of gasifier was studied. Limited studies were done using a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen as the gasification medium and also a methodology was developed to determine the gasification efficiency based on mass and heat contents of gas. The results show that the peak temperature within the bed increases with increase in oxygen concentration in the gasification medium. Also carbon dioxide concentration in the mixture increases with corresponding decrease in carbon monoxide with increase in oxygen concentration of the incoming gasification medium. The peak temperature increased from 988°C to 1192°C as the oxygen concentration increased from 21% to 28% at ER=2.1. The upper limit on oxygen concentration is limited to 28% due to high peak temperature and resulting ash agglomeration. Higher heating value (HHV) of the gases decreases with increase in equivalence ratio. The gases produced using carbon dioxide and oxygen mixture had a higher HHV when compared to that of air and enriched air gasification. Typically the HHV of the gases increased from 2219 kJ/m³ to 3479 kJ/m³ when carbon dioxide and oxygen mixture is used for gasification instead of air at ER=4.2 in the absence of steam.

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La transposition d’un milieu liquide (FML) à un milieu solide (FMS) de la production de γ-décalactones par fermentation par Yarrowia lipolytica a été étudiée pour la première fois. Dans un premier temps, différentes matrices solides (rafles de maïs, éponges de cellulose, éponges de courgette et graines de ricin) ont été utilisées. L'éponge de courgette était le support sur lequel les lactones étaient produites aux concentrations les plus élevées. La production de lactones a donc été réalisée sur ce support et dans trois types de réacteurs FMS sous différentes conditions d’aérations (sans aération, avec aération statique et avec aération forcée). Une concentration élevée de 5 g/L d’hydroxy-lactone a été détectée dans la condition d’aération statique en fiole à col large. Une certaine concentration de lactones était entrainée lors de l’aération forcée au cours de la production en mini-réacteur. Pour calculer la production totale de lactones dans cette condition, un modèle mathématique a été utilisé pour modéliser les pertes. Par ailleurs, un nouveau procédé par injection d’air enrichi en oxygène (20 %, 30 %, 40 % et 50 %) a été mis en place pour étudier les effets de l’oxygène sur la β-oxydation chez Y. lipolytica. Dans cette partie, les résultats ont montré que l’oxygène est nécessaire pour la production d’hydroxy-lactone et la dégradation de γ-décalactone mais pas pour la dernière étape de production de cette dernière. Dans la dernière partie de ce travail, l’effet de l’activité de l’eau (Aw) a été étudié préliminairement sur la croissance en milieu gélosé, et pour la croissance et la production de lactone en FML. / The adaptation of the production of γ-decalactones from submerged fermentation (SmF) to solid state fermentation (SSF) by Yarrowia lipolytica was investigated in this work. First of all, different solid matrices (corncob, cellulose sponge, luffa sponge, and castor seeds) were used for the first adaptation of the production of γ-décalactones. Luffa sponge appeared to be the most interesting solid support on which lactones were produced in higher concentrations than in the other solid matrices used. Then, the production of lactones using luffa sponge as the solid support was carried out in three types of SSF reactors to monitor different aeration conditions (without aeration, with a static aeration and with a forced aeration). A 5 g/L-high concentration of hydroxy-lactone was detected in the condition of static aeration using wide-mouth Erlenmeyer flasks. Furthermore, a concentration of lactones was stripped when forced aeration was used during the production using mini-reactors. To calculate the total production of lactones in this case, a mathematical model was used to evaluate the losses. Moreover, a novel alternative process using oxygen-enriched air (20%, 30%, 40% and 50%) was employed to study the effect of oxygen on β-oxidation in Y. lipolytica. In this part, the results showed that oxygen is required for hydroxy-lactone production and γ-decalactone degradation but not for the last step of production of this latter lactone. In the last part of this work, the effect of water activity (Aw) was preliminary studied on growth in agar medium, and for growth and lactone production in SmF.

L’objet de cette thèse est l’étude de la séparation membranaire de l’air appliquée à la réduction desémissions d’oxyde d’azote (NOx) des moteurs Diesel. Il a en effet été démontré précédemment quel’utilisation d’air dopé en azote pour la combustion Diesel entrainait une diminution des émissions deNOx. Les travaux présentés ici ont consisté à produire des outils de modélisation d’un module deséparation membranaire des gaz de type fibres creuses et à valider expérimentalement ces outils.Deux approches de modélisation ont été retenues, une approche génie chimique a conduit à unmodèle monodimensionnel applicable en régime stationnaire ; une approche dynamique des fluidesa permis de développer un modèle bidimensionnel valable en régime transitoire. Le premier modèlea été utilisé pour le dimensionnement de modules, le second pour simuler les performances deséparation de ces modules. Par ailleurs, l’influence du taux de dopage en azote de l’air sur la quantitéde NOx émis a été numériquement étudiée à l’aide d’un outil commercial. Enfin, la possibilitéd’implanter un tel module sur un moteur Diesel de série et les paramètres limitants ont été étudiés àl’aide d’un code commercial et d’un modèle développé par Renault. / The purpose of this work is the study of the air membrane separation applied to the reduction ofnitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions of Diesel engines. As a matter of fact, previous works proved thatusing nitrogen-doped air in Diesel combustion led to lower NOx emissions. The study presentedherein consisted in developing a set of modeling tools simulating a gas separation hollow fibersmembrane module and in experimentally validating these tools. A chemical engineering approachresulted in a monodimensional model suitable for stationary regime; a flow dynamic approach led toa bidimensional model dedicated to transitory regime. The first model was used to design modulessize, the second one to simulate separation performances of these modules. Beside, the impact ofnitrogen doping on NOx emissions was numerically studied with a commercial software. Finally, thefeasibility of the introduction of such a module in a mass-produced Diesel engine was investigatedwith a model developed at Renault on a commercial software.

Biomass gasification using air with addition of oxygen can be the right way to increase the quality of the syngas produced. This thesis aims to characterize the gasification process using oxygen-enriched air and verify its effect on the gas. The theoretical part deals with description of the technology with an emphasis on various gasifying agents and different possibilities of increasing gas quality. The practical part contains the results of measurements on the atmospheric fluidized bed reactor and their evaluation. The experiment was performed with various oxygen enrichment taking into account the capabilities of the equipment used.