Understanding the life cycle analysis needs of industrialists to better decarbonize
Identify the life cycle analysis (LCA) needs for decarbonization of industrial activities: this is the issue that the management of PEPR SPLEEN, researchers from the LCA-SPLEEN project, industrialists, and representatives of the academic and institutional worlds met in Saint-Fons on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Syensqo, a major player in the manufacture of specialty chemicals and a member of the industrial committee of our research programme, welcomed all the participants at its research centre located on the outskirts of Lyon.
This day of work took place in two distinct phases:
- a morning presentation of the activities carried out under PEPR SPLEEN for decarbonization of industry, research work carried out within the LCA-SPLEEN project, introduction to the presentation of the automated LCA tool developed within the project. This discussion time, moderated by Yoann Jovet and Julie Cren of the CEA, was the subject of interactive activities to better understand the need for LCA in industrialists, discussions on potential applications of the tool on identified industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemistry) and small group workshops to explore the potential of using the tool in an industrial context to optimize and improve the proposal (constraints and limits to be taken into account, technical-economic aspects, methods of shaping etc.).
- an afternoon of visits to laboratories and pilots at the Syensqo research centre, in order to get an overview of the R&D activities carried out on site.
This sequence of work is part of the PEPR SPLEEN’s desire to be as close as possible to the realities experienced by local industrialists involved in efforts to implement decarbonization of their activities, and to compare the research work carried out within the projects of the programme with the concrete problems of industrialists in order to prepare decarbonation solutions that can be implemented in industry in the coming years.
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