Fabrice Balmer
Engineer in Environmental Engineering
Education
Higher School of Engineering of Chambéry
Environmental Engineering – France
Master’s degree in Process Engineering
Aix-Marseille University – France
DUT Physical Measurements – Materials
IUT d’Orsay – France
Professional background
VINCI Construction Grands Projets
International Hydraulics
Engineering and Process Director
President of the Technical Commission of the SYNTEAU
VINCI Environment
Water Treatment Division
Technical and commissioning manager
Technical and Engineering Director
VINCI Construction France
Design and process engineer
Engineer in the technical department
Proserpol (CMI group)
Design and process engineer
Key areas of expertise
Pollution
- Accidental, gradual and historical pollution
- Soil, water and groundwater pollution by hydrocarbons, solvents, heavy metals
- River, lake and pond pollution with fish mortality, assessment of damage to fish production
- Transformer leaks and explosions with PCB spillage
- Pollution from tank, conduit and pipeline puncture in oil storage depots or petrol stations
- Overturned trucks with spillage of fuel or chemicals
- Pollution linked to waste disposal operation unit
- Pollution from waste water treatment plants
- Historic pollution linked to former industrial activities
- Pollution through piercing of storage basin membrane
- Air pollution by various particles
- Litigation stemming from regulations governing management of polluted sites and soil
- Water pollution
Hydraulic pumping
- Pumping station design
- Design of hydraulic networks / piping
- Design of equipments
Waste
- Waterproofness problem of storage waste
- Pollution related to incineration or waste treatment
- Leachate leaks
- Optimization of costs for the management of polluted land and materials
- Contamination of waste treatment facilities
Water treatment – mud – odors
- Problems in water treatment plants and drinking water treatment plants
- Concrete degradation by H2S attack
- Dysfunction of the water process (drinking water, municipal wastewater, industrial water, process water)
- Dysfunction of the deodorization process (chemical biological…)
- Dysfunction of the sludge process (digestion, dewatering, storage, oxidation, drying beds, thermal drying, biogas …)
- Non-achievement of performance and guarantees
- Error of design
- Electromechanical equipment