Projects
Plasma-driven Slag Fuming from Industrial Process Residue KU Leuven
Slags produced from secondary copper smelting contain a considerable amount of ZnO. These slags are treated in a slag fuming furnace, where the ZnO undergoes an endothermic reduction reaction by metallurgical coal and Zn is evaporated and recovered either as metal or zinc oxide dust. The submerged plasma slag fuming process is a new technology that uses electricity as energy source instead of fossil fuel burners. Instead of adding the ...
First principles based process concepts for complex mixtures conversion Ghent University
Europe is the second largest global producer of hydrocarbon products. Unavoidably, significant greenhouse gas emissions
occur due to the present process implementations. A proper simulation of these processes is crucial to better understand
them and, hence, to propose solutions for the present challenges in CO2 emissions abatement. The PR1ME simulation
framework for chemical process will combine the fundamental understanding of ...
Development and application of a continuous-flow aerobic granular sludge process for industrial wastewater treatment. University of Antwerp
Intensified process for the simultaneous recovery of chitosan and β-glucan from fungal biomass (FungiWave) KU Leuven
Tenure track professorship in Chemical reactor science and process design Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
Milliflow systems: a novel design approach to promote industrialization. KU Leuven
Milliflow systems, channels with an internal diameter around 1 mm,
have shown great efficiency improvements during the last decades in
the field of immiscible liquid processes. Compared to mixed vessels,
these systems can perform processes up to 20 times faster with 90%
less energy requirements. Despite these advantages, little to no
industrial applications have emerged. Two major barriers are
...Removal of 4-chlorophenol in wastewater by a combination of electrochemical oxidation and anaerobic wastewater treatment KU Leuven
The objective of this research project is the intensification of anaerobic wastewater treatment by the use of electrochemical oxidation. By the use of this electrochemical technique as a pretreatment step or in recycle of an anaerobic reactor, inhibitory components such as monohalogenated aromatics can be electrochemically oxidized in order to assure better biodegradability. As a model compound, 4-chlorophenol is used for the evaluation of ...
Africa at a meso-scale: Adaptive and integrated tools and strategies for natural resources management (AFROMAISON). University of Antwerp
Francqui Start-Up Grant Ghent University
Process intensification (PI) plays an essential role in the new paradigm of chemical engineering, which is characterized by any technology that leads to a substantially smaller, cleaner, and more energy-efficient process with multiscale cognition. However, the development of process intensification technologies, such as reactor development, is a very challenging task because of the inherent complexity in momentum/heat/mass transfer, mixing, ...