The IFRF and its French Committee will host an Industrial Combustion training on 18th-19th March 2025 at Air Liquide’s advanced testing facilities in France.
The training will begin with a comprehensive overview of combustion applications across various energy intensive industrial sectors, including cement, steel, glass, oil and gas, and energy production. Attendees will gain practical experience in all relevant aspects, with a focus on reducing CO2 emissions through the use of renewable fuels including hydrogen.
Participants will benefit from lectures given by experienced professionals from both industry and academia. The training includes two practical sessions: one with a laboratory burner from the CNRS CORIA laboratory, and another with the Air Liquide 2 MW pilot furnace, operating with natural gas and hydrogen with air and/or oxygen, for oxy-combustion.
| 08:30 | Welcome & coffee |
| 09:00 | Introduction by Anna Publi-Melsio, Air Liquide & IFRF |
| 09:10 | Overview of Industrial Combustion Processes Louis Ricci, Fives Group |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Hydrogen Production & the Role of Hydrogen in a Sustainable Energy System Luc Jarry, Air Liquide |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Safety & Risks Management in Industrial Combustion Systems Colonel Laurent Lecomte, ENSOSP & Jean-François Brilhac, LGRE |
| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:20 | Experimental Platform: Hands-on a Natural Gas/Hydrogen/Air burner David Honoré, CNRS – Coria |
| 17:45 | End of day 1 |
| 19 March 2025 | |
| 08:45 | Welcome & coffee |
| 09:00 | Potentials and Challenges of Hydrogen to Decarbonize the Glass Sector Syntia Metchueng, Fives Stein |
| 09:40 | Using Hydrogen as Fuel to Reduce CO₂ Emissions in Steel Processing Furnaces and Lines Sébastien Caillat & Hassan Mohanna, Fives Stein |
| 10:20 | Break |
| 10:30 | Experimental Platform: Hands-on Demonstration of Hydrogen Usage as a Fuel in Air and Oxygen Flames on the 2 MW Pilot Furnace Mohand Amirat & Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal, Air Liquide |
| 12:30 | Buffet Lunch and discussion |
| 14:00 | Final Summary and Interactive Q&A Session |
| 15:45 | End of the training |
| March 18, 2025 - March 19, 2025 |    |