Projects
Development of novel assays to characterize the size and dynamics of the HIV-1 viral reservoir. Ghent University
Worldwide, approximately 37 million people are infected with HIV. Currently, HIV-patients are
subjected to lifelong intake of medication, because shortly after infection, a viral reservoir of
latently infected cells is formed. These latent proviruses stably reside inside the genome of the
host cell, where they are not susceptible to antiretroviral drugs. Lifelong intake of cART brings
along a multitude of problems, ...
TransSIMS: Transition to Smart Industrial Production Systems in Industry 4.0 KU Leuven
Building new Industry 4.0 plants on a “greenfield” is currently hardly realistic for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Giving the long life-times of production facilities, the solution is to be found in transforming the existing machines and systems into interconnected smart machines and systems. For that, IoT (Internet of Things) technologies, which are universally applicable and easy to use, can be exploited to increase the overall ...
Cogeneration of electricity and valuable chemicals in PEM fuel cells. KU Leuven
A lot of economically valuable chemicals are obtained in industry through oxidation and reduction reactions. While many of these processes are highly exothermic, liberating energy as heat, they generally do not reach high energy efficiencies because most of this liberated energy cannot be recovered efficiently. Fuel cells offer the possibility to produce these chemicals through electrochemical reactions while converting the released energy ...
Improving postoperative outcomes in outpatient surgery using different regional anesthesia techniques KU Leuven
Multimodal analgesia in outpatient surgery: clinical and economical impact.
INTRODUCTION
Ambulatory surgery has a lot of clinical and economical advantages.(1)
For many years ambulatory surgery was only done in healthy patients for small surgical interventions. But lately because of economical an financial pressure also less healthy patients and more invasive procedures are carried out on an ambulatory ...
Daphnia: from ecological to biomedical microbiome model in the context of hypoxia KU Leuven
Host-associated microbiomes relate to the microbiota that live inside and on the surfaces of hosts. The microbial community is not a random collection of organisms but is the result of complex interactions between microbiota within the host and between the host and the microbiota. These interactions are mediated by host physiology and environmental factors. The host-associated microbiota is currently considered as a novel factor in host ...
SizeZeroWaste Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen
The European Commission is laying the foundation for the transition to a circular economy with the European Green Deal and the linked Circular Economy Action Plan. The action plan formulates the ambition to make sustainable products, services and business models the norm and to avoid waste production as much as possible and identifies textiles as one of the important value chains for ...
A Multi-stage Stochastic Programming Approach in Lot-sizing and Scheduling under Uncertain Environments KU Leuven
Based on the time ranges, production planning is considered in a three-level decision making procedure: long-term, medium-term and short-term, which corresponds to the facility location and resource allocation, production quantity decision or lot-sizing over a planning horizon, and daily operations including job scheduling, respectively [1]. The medium-term planning usually spans about half of the year when the market and manufacturing ...
Optimal Parameter and Fin Design for PCM-based Thermal Energy Storage KU Leuven
Latent heat storages (LHSs) have gained a lot of interest due to their high potential of creating compact and efficient thermal energy storages, which are highly desirable in our current and future energy market for increased use and integration of renewable energy systems and to pursue carbon neutrality. However, charging of latent heat storages is still hampered by the low thermal conductivity of the Phase Change Material (PCM). This ...