R&D Internship - Process for Carbon Capture (H/F)

Air Liquide is the world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. Present in 59 countries with approximately 65,000 employees, the Group serves more than 4.3 million customers and patients.

Air Liquide places diversity at the heart of its activities and is committed in particular to promoting professional equality and the employment of workers with disabilities.

The Paris Innovation Campus (78 - Les Loges en Josas) is Air Liquide's largest R&D center.
It develops innovative solutions for all of the Group's activities. More than 250 researchers work in 48 laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and experimental platforms, enabling them to explore numerous research areas.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Internship Context

At Air Liquide, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, continuously developing innovative Carbon Capture technologies to meet global climate goals. A key component of our capture portfolio is the CryocapTM system developed by the engineering department.

As we scale and optimize these technologies, it is essential to deeply understand the chemical behaviors and trace compounds within our systems.

Specifically, managing and understanding phenomena such as NO2 hydrolysis is critical to ensuring the efficiency, safety, and reliability of our CO2 capture processes across different scales of operation.

Having a robust understanding of the behaviour of the different impurities is essential to explore the data from current R&D pilots and thus enable the design of future units.

Missions and Responsibilities

Your mission in this internship, as a part of the team Primary Production Technology at AL R&D will be to study the impact of NOx reactions through some bricks in the CryocapTM FG product.

By analyzing data from literature/pilots and comparing it with experimental outcomes, you will play a key role in validating our models and ensuring the safe and efficient scale-up of our carbon capture technologies.

The main missions entrusted to you will be:

- Summarize the evolution of the different NOx reaction mechanism.
- Study the updated mechanisms and understand the impact of the reactions within the CryocapTM FG CO2 capture process.
- Analyze and compare experimental results obtained from a pilot plant.
- Evaluate and ensure the representativity of the model.

Are you a MATCH?

Desired Profile and Skills:

- End-of-study internship (process or chemical engineering cycle / Master 2 or 3rd year engineering cycle)
- Process / energy / energy transition culture
- Familiar with steady-state process simulator: Prosim Plus, Aspen-Hysys environments
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills for troubleshooting
- Rigorous, methodical and organized to structure the approach and capitalize on it
- Proactive profile: able to progress autonomously and find necessary information
- Strong learning capacity and teamwork ability
- Proficiency in English and good communication skills

Additional Information

- 6-month internship starting in March 2027
- Individualized accommodations are possible for health-related reasons and/or disabilities—let’s discuss!

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Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.