Ivan Stoychev, Ph.D.

Major projects:

- Hard chemical cleaning (EPRI/SGOG) of steam generators of the French nuclear power plants.

- Preventive cleaning (ASCA) of steam generators of the French nuclear power plants.

- Treatment of liquid effluents coming from the steam generators chemical cleaning.

PhD thesis:

- Development of an innovative process for decontamination of low activity nuclear wastes in supercritical carbon dioxide in presence of surfactants.

Fields: Supercritical carbon dioxide processes, Physical chemistry, Chemical engineering, Process engineering, Stirring (Mechanical/Ultrasonics), Surfactants, Thermodynamics, Hydrodynamics (FLUENT Modeling).

Last year internship program:

Decontamination of solid substrates using supercritical carbon dioxide: application to nuclear decontamination.