第365回触媒化学研究センターコロキウム
REALCAT: A new high-throughput platform dedicated tothe design of biorefineries catalysts
Prof. Sébastien PAUL
(Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, UCCS (UMR CNRS8181), Université de Lille,Ecole Centrale de Lille, Cité Scientifique,59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France)

2015年6月22日（月）16:30—18:00（創成科学研究棟4階セミナー室B・C）
http://www.cat.hokudai.ac.jp/access.html
Catalysis under all of its forms (chemo-, bio- or hybrid catalysis) is of crucial importance in domains such as
Environment, Food, Health, Energy, which are at the inner core of the current societal demands. The
development of new catalysts with improved performances is therefore a highly strategic issue. However, theexperimental part of this work is time- and money-consuming, as traditional “trial and error” methods forsynthesizing and testing catalysts are still needed.
In this lecture the advanced high-throughput (HT) REALCAT platform1 will be described and the first results
obtained using it will be presented. REALCAT is a unique in the world, highly integrated platform devoted to theacceleration of innovation in the field of catalytic processes with a focus on biorefineries. REALCAT represents
a top-level HT technologies workflow including (i) robots for the automated synthesis of catalysts, (ii) rapid
characterization tools and (iii) parallel reactors combined with ultra-fast analytical tools. Three laboratories of
the University of Lille have gathered their forces in this challenging project: UCCS, specialized in chemocatalysis; the Charles Viollette Institute (ProBioGEM team), specialized in bio-catalysis and CRIStAL, a lab
specialized in computer engineering and data treatment. This combination of skills is a key point of the project.
In this lecture a focus will be put on the possibilities for researchers in the field of catalysis to get an access tothe tremendous potential of REALCAT.

問合せ先：触媒化学研究センター・福岡淳（fukuoka@cat.hokudai.ac.jp・011-706-9140）
Sébastien PAUL is Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lille, a generalist engineer school in the north of France, where
he is the head of the Sciences of the Matter department. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of Technology of Compiègne, France in 1996. Since then, his research work is carried out in the Unité deCatalyse et de Chimie du Solide (UCCS - UMR CNRS 8181), France. He is a member of the VALBIO group (standingfor Valorization of the ALkanes and of compounds issued from the BIOmass) led by the Prof. Franck Dumeignil.
Sébastien PAUL is the scientific leader and the user committee chairman of the REALCAT project (‘Advanced HighThroughput Technologies Platform for Biorefineries Catalysts Design') and he is deputy-director of the FrancoJapanese International Associate CNRS Laboratory CAT&P4BIO (Innovative Catalysts for Oxidation Reactions andProcesses, Biomass Conversion). He is involved in the development of a large variety of catalytic processes startingfrom compounds issued from biomass or hydrocarbons in the frame of academic and industrial collaborations. Finally,
he has supervised or co-supervised 15 PhD, 11 post-docs, is co-author of more than 50 scientific articles, 10 patents,and more than 100 communications (oral and posters

365th Catalysis Research Center (CRC) Colloquium