Bruno LACARRIÈRE
Dept. Energy Systems and Environment
UMR CNRS GEPEA
4 rue Alfred Kastler, 44307 Nantes Cedex 3, France
+33 (0) 251 858 214
bruno.lacarriere [at] imt-atlantique.fr
Biography
Position
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Full Professor, IMT Atlantique
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Holder of the chair ValaDoE
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Deputy director of the doctoral school SPIN
Education
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2015 : Habilitation to direct research , Nantes University
- 2003 : PhD in Energy - Heat transfer, Toulouse University
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1999 : Master (DEA) in Energy, INSA Toulouse
Research activity
The research activity aims at exploring the different solutions to model the energy systems complexity, taking into account different scales (from energy conversion technologies to interconnected energy distribution networks), different operational objectives (sizing, control), and the diversity of temporal dynamics. Developed modeling tools combined physics-based models and Machine Learning. The optimization strategies explore and combine different solutions going from exact mathematical solutions to meta-heuristics.
The works done are strongly connected to the constraints of practical implementation of proposed solutions as most of the research is done in collaboration with stakeholders of the territorial energy planification (local authorities, energy companies, energy networks operators…). Last, these works include the analysis of data quality impact on modeling and optimization developments thanks to the uncertainty and sensitivity analyses
Research topics in key words
- Energy systems
- Multi-energy system (District Heating and Electricity Grid coupling)
- Modeling (Physics based, Machine learning, Hybrid modeling)
- Optimization (exact mathematical models, (meta)heuristics, nested optimization
- Data uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
Main research programs
- Holder of the chair ValaDoE : Added value of sharing energy data for regional energy planning
- ACT 4 IE (PEPR SPLEEN) : A systemic and territorial approach to decarbonize activity areas with Industrial Ecology
- HyMES (PEPR TASE) : Hybrid modeling for multi-energy systems
- MySmartLife : District heating modeling for smart cities
- SELECT+ : Environomical pathways for sustainable energy services
PhD supervision
PhDs supervised /co-supervised
- Optimisation multi-énergie pour la décarbonation de l'industrie (Jacques Wenger, Work in progress)
- Elaboration de stratégies de pilotage de réseaux d’énergies via les leviers de flexibilité (Yasser Hallou, Work in progress)
- Simplification de l'architecture des réseaux énergétiques par agrégation de nœuds à base d'IA (Bubon Rodrigue, Work in progress)
- Apports de la combinaison des modèles physiques et des modèles à base de données pour la modélisation des réseaux multi-énergie (Shri Balaji Padmanabhan, Work in progress)
- Optimisation multi-objectifs de systèmes énergétiques couplés : méthodes exactes et approchées (Antoine Mallégol, 2023)
- Optimisation de l’intégration d’EnR et de batteries en soutien aux réseaux électriques existants intégrant une demande variable et incertaine (Sarah Faki, 2023)
- Etude et optimisation de la production combinée de chaleur et de froid pour réseaux thermiques (Boris Nérot, 2022)
- Energy, economic and quality of service assessment using dynamic modelling and optimization for smart management of district heating networks (Manuel Betancourt Schwarz, 2021)
- Exploiting the synergies from coupled electricity and heat distribution networks : modelling, simulation and optimization based on an extended energy hub approach (Getnet Tadesse Ayele, 2020)
- Low-temperature based thermal micro-grids : operation and performance assessments (Jose Castro Flores, 2018)
- The assessment of district heating potential in a context of climate change and building renovation (Ivan Andric, 2017)
- Methodology to estimate building energy consumption using artificial intelligence (Subodh Paudel, 2016)
- On-site pure hydrogen production in a catalytic membrane reactor by ethanol steam reforming (Ali Hedayati, 2016)
- Environmental assessment tools for sustainable resource management (Nadia Jamali-Zghal, 2014)
- Modèles intégrés pour l'évaluation des actions territoriales de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Application aux réseaux de chaleur : Application aux réseaux de chaleur : HeatGrid, un modèle de simulation énergétique pour un management stratégique (Charlotte Marguerite, 2014)