@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1144, 

TITLE={Biomimicry, an avenue to explore for process engineering?}, 
  
AUTHOR={Eric Schaer
, Frédéric Demoly
, Jean-Claude André, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Entropy: Thermodynamics – Energy – Environment – Economy }, 
	
VOLUME={5}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/Biomimicry-an-avenue-to-explore-for-process-engineering}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1144}, 
	
ISSN={2634-1476}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The exponential growth in the use of digital technology is forcing changes in the engineering of material and energy transformation processes, not only in terms of training, but also in terms of inventions of various origins, to revitalize this discipline, which is subject to strong environmental constraints. This near-breakthrough situation needs to be translated into greater creativity before we can achieve breakthrough or incremental innovations. To achieve this objective, it is sometimes useful to bring together two normally disjoint fields to generate ideas that are robust enough to be applied. This article discusses this method, based on biomimicry. Can taking advantage of nature’s ingenuity foster the emergence of anthropocentric inventions and thus accelerate innovation in the field of process engineering? This is the question posed by the authors in their quest to illustrate the opportunities and advantages of such an approach, as well as its current limitations.}}