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Thibaut Maury-Micolier
PhD in Process eng.
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Introduction
I am currently a Scientific project officer at the European Commission - Joint Research Center in Ispra (Italy), affiliated to the unit D.3 "sustainable resources - land resources".
From 2016 to 2019, I was involved in a joint industry-research program - French CIFRE grant - with ArianeGroup (lead contractor of the European heavy launchers) and the University of Bordeaux. My research has been focused on environmental life cycle assessment for space activities.
Additional affiliations
November 2019 - present
March 2016 - February 2019
October 2015 - October 2019
Education
September 2009 - January 2015
Publications
Publications (17)
In the framework of the joint revision of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive 2000/53/EC and the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to their reusability, recyclability and recoverability (3RTA) Directive 2005/64/EC, the European Commission is investigating the possibility of introducing recycled plastic content targets for new vehicles pl...
By analogy to conventional environmental impacts, the potential release of debris or generation of fragments can be considered as the emission of an environmental stressor damaging the orbital ‘natural’ resource which supports space activities. Hence, it appears relevant to integrate systematically the impact of the emission of debris on the orbita...
Like any industry, space activities generate pressures on the environment and strives towards more sustainable activities. A consensus among the European industrial stakeholders and national agencies in the Space sector is emerging on the need to address eco-design through the prism of the environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Whil...
The circular economy aims to decouple growth from environmental impacts by optimizing resource use, minimizing waste and pollution. The European Union (EU) has the ambition to lead a circular economy transition on a global level. Realizing the transition is complex, because it requires substantial and interconnected changes in the current system. P...
Previous research efforts have focused on the development of comprehensive and robust datasets on Secondary Raw Materials, as requested in particular in the EU Circular Economy Action Plan (2015). For example, the Horizon 2020 project ProSUM (Prospecting Secondary raw materials in the Urban mine and Mining wastes, 2015-2017) resulted in the creatio...
Sustainable use of Materials through Automotive Remanufacturing to boost resource efficiency in the road Transport system (SMART) is a Joint Research Centre (JRC) exploratory research project that investigates the contribution of end-of-life (EoL) practices to decreasing the environmental impacts of the European Union fleet in the future and increa...
Like any industry, space activities generate pressures on the environment and strives towards more sustainable activities. A consensus among the European industrial stakeholders and national agencies in the Space sector is emerging on the need to address eco-design through the prism of the environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Whil...
Satellites orbiting Earth are used in many areas and disciplines, including space science, Earth observation, meteorology, climate research. A rising sustainability concern is occurring in the space sector: 29,000 human-made objects, larger than 10cm, are orbiting the Earth but only 6% are operational spacecraft. The others, considered as space deb...
The space industry generates pressures on the environment and strives towards more sustainable activities. Several actors of or related to the European space industry, such as ArianeGroup or and the European Space Agency (ESA), have identified the life cycle assessment methodology (LCA) as the most appropriate methodology to measure and then suppor...
Like any industry, space activities generate pressures on the environment and strives towards more sustainable activities. A consensus among the European industrial stakeholders and national agencies in the Space sector is emerging on the need to address eco-design through the prism of the environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Whil...
Ressource dissipation
Space debris
Atmospheric reentry
Several actors of or related to the European space industry, such as ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency (ESA), have identified life cycle assessment (according to ISO14040/44) as the most appropriate methodology to measure and minimise their environmental impact. Nevertheless, space systems deal with a strong particularity which adds new asp...
The space sector is a new area of development for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies. However, it deals with strong particularities which complicate the use of LCA. One of the most important is that the space industry is the only human activity crossing all stages of the atmosphere during the launch event or the atmospheric re-entry. As a result,...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been identified by actors of the space industry as the most adequate tool in order to measure the environmental impact of space missions. Nevertheless, the scope of the current studies adopts a " cradle to launch pad " approach and does not take into account the end-of-life disposal of the spacecraft. With an expecte...
A rising sustainability concern is occurring in the space sector: 29,000 human-made objects, larger than 10cm are orbiting the Earth but only 6% are operational spacecrafts. Today, space debris is a significant and constant danger to all space missions. Consequently, it becomes compelled to design new space missions considering End-of-Life requirem...
