Presentation

Our resources

SME Environment deploys a full range of resources to guarantee top-quality services:
    • Multidisciplinary team
    • Methodological guidelines
    • Numerical simulation tools
    • Test labs.

Multidisciplinary team

SME Environment deploys a team of about thirty engineers and scientists – physicists, chemical, mechanical and general engineers – specializing in:

    • Chemical synthesis and process engineering.
    • Recurring and accidental impact on health and environment.
    • Behavior of energetic materials in pyrotechnics.
    • Pyrotechnic safety and munitions sensitivity.
    • RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, safety).
    • Numerical simulation of hazardous phenomena (fire, explosion, gaseous
      dispersion, etc.).
    • Prevention of electrostatic phenomena, lightning risks.

Methodological guidelines

SME Environment has drawn up a full set of methodological guidelines to guarantee:

    • Reliability,
    • Reproducibility,
    • Traceability,
    • Conformity.

These guidelines are based on the expertise built up by SNPE’s teams over the last thirty years.

Numerical simulation

At SME Environment we use powerful simulation software to reduce the cost of our studies by decreasing the number of tests needed.

These simulation tools model the phenomena characteristic of hazardous substances to determine their impact under normal or accident conditions.

SME Environment guarantees our assumptions and input data to make sure we provide a reliable assessment of the effects under study.

Applications used include the following:
ABAQUS, ADMS, CHALOSSE, CHEETAH, CHEMKIN, CPS, CRONOS, DENSEFLUX, DENSECLAT, EMIR, FDS, GAMDEC, LS-DYNA, MOBIDIC NG, OPHELIE, PATRIC, PHAST, PROJSEC, SEVEX, SIMTREE, …

  
Code ADMS version 4 - © NUMTECH & Carte © IGN - Licences n°2004 CUJ 2290 & 2291

Test laboratories

We can call on a broad array of test resources:

    • Physical-chemical analysis labs, specialists in runaway chemical reactions and
      process safety.
    • Labs approved by French accreditation agency Cofrac (No. 1-02A82) for regulatory
      pyrotechnic safety tests.
    • Fire testing lab accredited by the French ministry of the interior since 1975 (Class M),
      and recognized by French national railways SNCF and Paris area transport authority
      RATP.
    • Test facilities capable of testing hazardous materials ranging from a few grams
      to several dozen tons.