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OPAALE Research Unit

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 RU "Process optimisation in food, agriculture and the environment" is an INRAE Bretagne-Normandie Centre's own research unit, located in Rennes-Beauregard.
OPAALE's research activities aim to promote technological and organisational solutions for the valorisation of food materials, biomasses and waste. Our ambition is thus to develop an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of sustainable, innovative, or even alternative recovery processes at the territorial level.

Batiment OPAALE

Our scientific expertise is multidisciplinary: chemistry, physics, process engineering, NMR, MRI, image processing, fluid mechanics, automation, dynamic systems modelling, microbial ecology, sanitary microbiology, life cycle analysis, geomatics.
Our research focuses on three main areas:

Characterisation of the physical, chemical and biological properties of raw materials, products, residues and surrounding air flows;
    The development and optimisation of technological and digital solutions;
    The evaluation of the services offered by the technological sector and the environmental and health impacts.

RESEARCH PROJETS

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27 January 2026

By: OPAALE

ANR RedLUM - Reduced order models under location uncertainty

Collaboration with WM Weather Measures - SCALIAN DS - Sant'Anna School of advanced Studies (Pise, Italie) - Centre de Recherche Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest
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18 March 2024

By: OPAALE

Monitoring the degradation of biodegradable plastics by NMR - Plast-NMR

Petrosourced plastic food packaging is one of the most difficult items to sort and recycle in household waste. Soiled and damaged, they end up being incinerated or landfilled, where they generate micro- and nano-plastics that represent a major long-term environmental and health risk.
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13 October 2023

By: OPAALE

IFCPAR

Collaboration IFCPAR - Franco-Indian Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research
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18 April 2023

By: OPAALE

BioCyPlast

BioCyPlast - Biotic and abiotic factors of biodegradable plastic degradation in biowaste valorisation systems: understanding as a first step to eco-design