Industrial and Environmental Processes

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The department of more recent creation in the Institute of Engineering is the Industrial and Environmental Processes Department (CIPI), which started its activities in 1998.

The mission of this group is to develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of thermo-fluid engineering and safety engineering in order to address problems of national interest, improve worker safety and ensure environmental protection in industry and chemical transformation processes.

The working method in the investigation leads to the understanding of the physics of thermo-hydraulic phenomena and then develops and implements appropriate tools for the integration of security techniques to assess the processes of hazardous substances. This allows for solutions to problems that are required, by using the most advanced methods and technologies based on a structured organization to coordinate the work of various specialists.

The group has worked for various sponsors, including CFE and PEMEX CNA, the latter being the one requesting the greatest number of studies. Within the work of the CIPI there is, on one hand, environmental and safety studies including impact statements, risk analysis, mechanical integrity and occupational health studies (including study of vibration and noise determination) and, on the other hand, studies of multiphase flow in pipes, use of biomass gasification and combustion, and analysis of turbulent flows with techniques of visualization and simulation of large scale (SLE), and studies of energy efficiency in buildings and housing.

CIPI is composed of seven researchers, all with doctorate degrees, two academic technicians with masters', and twenty scholars and students at different levels of undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees. There is a very active teaching engagement in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions of the School of Engineering at UNAM.