Renaud Cadours is Acid Gas Process Specialist in the Process division of TotalEnergies. He holds a Master degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Paris School of Mines. He has joined IFPEN in 1998 to develop gas purification technologies, for natural gas treatment and CO2 capture. Then he joined TotalEnergies in 2007 and was involved in process design, operations and development of acid gas treating technologies. Renaud has 27 years of experience and has authored more than 60 papers and patents, most of them related to acid gas treatment.