Internship - 4 to 6 months Master 2 / Engineering School -Predicting realistic concentration profiles of polluants from corrosion protection systems using an oceanic dispersion model F/H

Company description

The Institute of Corrosion, a subsidiary of RISE (Sweden), is a research laboratory specializing in corrosion and corrosion protection. The headquarters of the Institute of Corrosion was established in Brest (29) on March 28, 2002. As a Simplified Joint Stock Company (SAS), the Institute of Corrosion has a capital of €500,000, fully owned by RISE.

On July 1, 2009, the CORREX laboratory, which has existed since 1994 in Fraisses, near Saint-Étienne (42), joined the Institute of Corrosion. This laboratory, consisting of about fifteen people, specializes in testing in ATEX zones, allowing the Institute of Corrosion to expand its range of tests and expertise in stress corrosion.

On July 1, 2022, the Institute of Corrosion acquired the MECM laboratory, which has existed since 2013 in Solaize, near Lyon (69). This subsidiary of the Institute expands its expertise in corrosion, particularly in on-site expertise, especially in the field of chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry for failure analysis and inspection.

This brings the group "Institute of Corrosion & MECM" to 60 employees spread across 3 different sites in France.

Job Description

Context and objectives :

Past decades, offshore anthropogenic activities have increased worldwide, and specifically in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, where major shipping routes and energy sources are abundant. Negative impacts from chemical pollution may result in a significant impact, especially in enclosed waters with high industrial activity. However, current knowledge on offshore emissions and offshore pollutant concentrations is limited. Due to the vast volumes of seas and oceans, and the low anthropogenic activity in these spaces, pollution is often considered negligible when compared to coastal waters, and in-situ monitoring methods are lacking. Modelling efforts could provide some insight into the environmental fate of emitted substances, thereby providing a guideline for targeted environmental impact assessments.

This internship is supervised by a student completing a thesis with KU Leuven and the French Corrosion Institute on the Seachem Project  and the impact of pollution more information on https://sea-chem.eu/project/

Your task during this internship will be to prepare a hydrodynamic model and study substance dispersion of emissions from corrosion protection systems used for offshore structures by implementing Lagrangian particle-tracking.

The objective of the internship will be to work on improving predictability of the environmental fate of emitted substances by modulating parameters that determine their chemical speciation.

Methods and techniques :

• Working with a hydrodynamic modelling and particle tracking software (CROCO Open Drift)
• Extending an existing particle tracking model with specific properties
• Synthesizing new dispersion scenarios
• Evaluating the dispersion scenarios using available field data

Profile

Etudiant en Master 2 ou Ecole Ingénieur 

Required skills :

• Good level of English spoken
• Preferably a background in computer science
• Proficient in programming Python
• Matlab experience is a bonus

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