End of Semester at AgroParisTech

Since the defense of their GLP-2nd stage experimental work at the joint forum with TalTech students on 6th May, students had the opportunity to attend a session dedicated to entrepreneurship organized by Loïc Rajjou, Professor at AgroParisTech, and to enjoy two field trip activities, one in Troyes and the other in Versailles.

The trip to Troyes on 22nd May provided them with the opportunity to explore the historical centre of the city before visiting a R&D site of FRD-CODEM, a technology resource centre dedicated to ecomaterials and biobased materials. They were welcomed by Marie Audouin, Analyses project manager at FRDlab, who presented the different aspects of the development of plant fiber-based solutions: design of customized fibers and semi-finished products, material processability, quality control, resource availability.

In Versailles, the students were immersed in the supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) laboratory of ISIPCA, which is a French school for post-graduate studies in perfume, cosmetics products and food flavour formulation. They benefited from the expertise of Cyrille Santerre, ISPICA teacher specialist in supercritical fluid, who made a comprehensive presentation of the SFE principle and its advantages regarding a wide diversity of industrial and analytical applications. They could put into practice their green chemistry knowledge from Semester 1, through a real-time experiment of sunflower seeds lipid extraction by SFE.

It is now time for the students to complete their GLP report and to prepare the poster that they will present at the European Bioeconomy University forum in Finland, on the way to Tallinn for the Bioceb summer school… a rich programme before well-deserved holidays or summer optional internship!