Energy and propulsion systems 

The ESP Carnot Institute gathers academic research laboratories 

of excellence and Regional Centers for Innovation and Technology 

Transfer focused on topics related to Energy and Propulsion 

Systems (ESP).

Partnership is the key figure of the technological research 

approach of our institute. 

Our multidisciplinarity helps meet your needs now and into  

the future by providing you with support and expertise for your 

research and innovation projects with one goal: contribute to 

the development of innovative equipments that use energy more 

efficiently and limit the impact on the environment.

Optimizing energy and environmental performance: 

a need in order to face some major issues of the 21st Century

Target markets

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 Aerospace and surface transportation

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 Energy

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 Environment

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 Electronics and micro technologies

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 Lasers and optical metrology

A highly developed partnership 

research  

 Most research activities of the 

ESP Carnot institute deals with 

industrial needs and is carried out 

in partnership with companies.

 The ESP Carnot Institute supports 

the regional Normandie AeroEspace and 

Energies Haute-Normandie networks.

 Its teams are research actors in a lot 

of French “pôle de compétitivité” clusters 

such as MOV’EO, Aerospace Valley, 

ASTech, Nov@log, TES, System@tic

Strong synergies between various 

skills enabling a multidisciplinary 

approach 

 The ESP Carnot Institute provides its 

partners with expertise, know-how and 

relevant measurement means in the fields 

related to the optimization of energy systems 

and propulsion systems: from fluid mechanics 

and energetics to the study of the emissions 

and their environmental impacts, as well as 

materials, acoustics and embedded systems.

 The ESP Carnot Institute teams are 

located in the same area and they are used 

to implement joint projects while having 

complementary means. That enables 

them to offer a suitable answer to the 

industrial problems through an approach 

ranging from the most fundamental 

stage to the pre-competitive one. 

 The ESP Carnot Institute aims 

to successfully implement new 

transformation processes which require 

less energy and which are more reliable 

and environmentally favourable.

 www.carnot-esp.fr

Automotive Fuel injector : from fuel flow through 

the injector to its atomization inside the engine

Direct Numerical Simulation of PRECCINSTA 

burner with YALES2, currently tested at the 

German Aerospace Center (DLR).