Thomas PEDOT

En résumé

Entreprises

• boostHEAT - PhD and Fluid Mechanics Engineer

  Vénissieux 2015 - maintenant boostHEAT has developed a new generation of efficient and renewable heating, hot water and cooling systems, fueled by natural gas and renewable energy.
  
  The Heat Pump Boiler is the FUSION of the boiler and the heat pump, into ONE efficient and renewable heating system, thanks to our patented thermal compression
  
  Such a system requires a detailed knowledge about all of these thermodynamic cycles. Heat pump boiler performance is directly linked to fluid flows control. In this sense, the simulation tools help to improve performance, together with tests carried out on site.
  
  Doing this result on :
  • Consuming half the energy of the most efficient (condensing) boiler
  • Using a natural, non-toxic refrigerant, carbon dioxide, instead of the commonly-used refrigerants that are 2,000+ times more potent greenhouse gases
  • The boostHEAT natural gas fueled thermal compression device activates the heat pump, an air-water heat pump using a carbon dioxide cycle.

• EPSILON Ingénierie - Thermal Engineer in R&D Fields

  Toulouse 2012 - 2015 On a day to day basis, in charge of :
  - developpments of coupling solutions between CFD software and Thermal software (TMG, Modelica) with a significant level of autonomy.
  - Tests of performance of OpenSource technologies to solve complex problems : OpenFOAM, OpenModelica, SALOME, CANTERA,...
  - Supervise and deliver thermal simulation (StarCCM+) support to design and developement of industrial engines
  - Write technical reports, technical specifications, CIR/SRC reports (R&D Tax Credit mechanism)
  - Animations of A320Neo Nacell Anti-Ice Working Group for Airbus Industy
  - Developpements of multi-physics code coupling interface for thermal analysis of Systems.

• Turbomeca - Interns

  BORDES 2008 - 2008 Topology analysis and Optimisation of Double Swirl Burner in a combustion Chambre
  
  Development of tools which can predict the Swirl Number of a Double Swirl Burner.
  Improvement of general topology with RANS (N3S) and LES (AVBP) codes

• CERFACS - Docteur

  PARIS 2008 - 2012 Modelisation of the coupling between combustion and fouling inside furnace pipes
  
  Fouling is a long-standing problem in the processing of crude oil and leads to a higher consumption of energy and a raising of maintenance costs, with an efficiency loss of the system. The performance of these heat exchangers decreases continuously with time due to fouling, which is defined as the formation of deposits. The cleaning of the equipment becomes necessary to restore the performance when the thermal effectiveness reaches a minimum acceptable level.
  
  During my Ph.D. degree, I develop a solid background in heat transfers phenomenons involved in the coke/deposit formation in industrial process pipes of a refinery furnace.
  
  With a collaboration with TOTAL group, a strategy has been deployed to understand coke formation.
  
  Different in-house CERFACS codes were used and enhanced to take advantage of the specificity of this problem. Efforts have been made on the resolution of radiative field when a simple correlation is used for convection. A coupling between irradiated surface and pipes subjected to coke deposit have and heat transfer through the pipe, has been built to couple them efficiently in huge parallel architecture (up to 4000 CPUs for the real/complex configuration).

Formations

• Institut National Polytechnique De Toulouse INPT (Toulouse)

  Toulouse 2008 - 2012 Energie et Transferts
  
  Doctorat Energétique et Transferts - CFD ; HPC ; Thermique; rayonnement; convection ; conduction ; DOM;

• Université Toulouse 1

  Toulouse 2007 - 2008 Master DET - Dynamique et Transferts Thermiques
  
  - Combustion and reactive media
  - Heat Transfer with Phase Change
  - Radiation Heat Transfer
  - Turbulent Flows and mixing

• TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (Hamburg)

  Hamburg 2007 - 2008 Echange Program - Erasmus

• Institut National Polytechnique

  Toulouse 2005 - 2008 Ingénieur en Hydraulique, mécanique des fluides
  
  - Fluid and Continuum mechanics,
  - Thermodynamics, Heat & Mass Transfers,
  - Numerical Simulation for Fluid Dynamics, (CFD : RANS, LES, DNS)
  - Signals and systems, scientific programming, (Matlab, C, Fortran)
  - Turbulence, two-phase flow,
  - Hydraulics, Combustion, Turbomachinery, gas turbine, engines

• Lycée Henri Poincaré

  Nancy 2002 - 2005

Réseau

• Benoit DU RUSQUEC

• Charles PERRIN

• Eliane SARR

• Erwan HUBERT

• Fabien DEL RIO

• Geoffroy CHAUSSONNET

• Matthieu CHEVREL

• Raphael MARI

• Sylvain DERAY

• Thibaud MARCEL