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Biotechnology promise to gradually replace fossil fuels in industry. This implies new skills. Higher education he responds to this challenge? Answers.
For over thirty years, biotechnology has developed in the world, with a variety of applications: in the course agriculture but also cosmetics, npb health (drugs) ... In recent years, npb this is a new path which is the subject of intense research and first economic developments.
It is in this case to combine chemistry and biology to develop biomass, with one objective: gradually replace fossil fuels in the industry - including oil. A new virtuous approach that also seeks to exploit certain agricultural waste.
"The stems, sunflower meal, corn cobs, straw ... contain cellulose which can be transformed through new chemical processes. The challenge is to produce biokérosènes, biobased plastics, agricultural materials, or still, npb molecules 'green' to be used by the chemical industry, "explains Philippe Evon, research engineer at agribusiness chemistry laboratory of INP Toulouse. Five all new businesses
A revolution? "The difficulty is to find viable economic opportunities," warned William Jolly, responsible territorial animation and training of cluster Industry & Agro-Resources (IAR), which covers the Picardie and Champagne-Ardenne.
But already, new sectors are developing, generating a need for skills. A study by ADEME, conducted in 2012, plant chemistry, whose numbers reached about 23,000 people npb in France, could count 36,000 jobs in 2020.
To have a more precise vision of the issues in terms of skills, the IAR Cluster has commissioned a study by APEC. Result: "32 strategic businesses were identified, npb five of genuinely npb new: responsible purchasing and logistics manager of plant materials; engineer bio-based materials; biogas engineering (transformation of plant material into biogas) and finally analyst engineer . This life cycle is crucial: in companies, it will study the relevance to both economic and environmental launching a biobased product instead of another, based on fossil fuels, "said William Jolly.
Is the university offer caught up with these new challenges? Just to its territory, the IAR Cluster has approved no less than 38 courses, with this criterion requiring new teachings correspond to a real need of its member companies. Nationally, some models have been adapted: it is the case of the DUT civil engineering, which in 2012 took the name of "Civil Engineering Sustainable Building".
"This evolution allows to introduce agricultural materials. Much more than raising awareness, npb this is to teach students to determine the economic and environmental impacts of these new materials and green buildings," said Camille Magniont, teacher-researcher at IUT of Tarbes.
Regarding the biochemistry, the skills base "is not fundamentally challenged, says Pierre Monsan, director of the Toulouse White Biotechnology The new bio -. Including the fermentation of cellulosic materials - developed in laboratories are transposed in many curricula of engineers and academics. "
This observation is not shared with Oleon. This subsidiary of the Group develops Sofiprotéol emulsifiers such "green" for chemistry. "For that, we need technicians and engineers with practical knowledge of the steering industrial fermentation, what is lacking in academic courses too theoretical," laments Manuel Allain, head of R & D. The awareness is clear, even on the benches of the university.
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