Institut Carnot BRGM

3, avenue Claude Guillemin 

BP 36009

45 060 Orléans Cedex 2

France

The economic sectors directly 
concerned include: 

  Construction,
  Energy,
  Chemicals and materials,
  Environmental services  

and eco-industries.

Other sectors benefit indirectly from 
scientific advances at the BRGM.  
Some examples:

  biotech processes to treat minerals 

can be transposed to waste 
treatment,

  mineral characterisation techniques 

can be applied to cosmetics 
development or to enhance and 
preserve the architectural heritage,

  modelling concepts for salt-saturated 

geological fluids can be applied to 
seawater desalination plants

Marie-Christine DICTOR 
+33 (0)2 38 64 36 31 
institutcarnot@brgm.fr 

CONTACTS

Economic sectors concerned

Research personnel  
(full-time equivalent): 

1 005

including PhD students: 

60

Partnership  
research incomes: 

27 310 k

€

Global budget: 

115 555 k

€

www.instituts-carnot.eu

Examples of technologics platforms  

 The MEB-RAMAN platform serving 

the BRGM laboratories in Orleans 

(scanning electron microscope coupled 

with Raman spectrometry),

 The experimental platform on 

geothermal energy at the BRGM site 

in Orleans (heat exchangers).

© Laurent Mignaux - MEDDE

© BRGM - Julien Rey

© Laurent Mignaux - MEDDE

© BRGM

© BRGM

© BRGM - Girelle Prod

The BRGM’s experimental platform on geothermal 

energy in Orleans.