Organisation
Sustainable Metals Processing and Recycling
Division
Research topics are:
• Thermodynamics for material and process development
• Extraction and refining of metals
• Interaction of liquid slag and metals with refractory materials
• Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of processes and interface reactions
• Material characterization
Projects
1 - 10 of 41
- High throughput - high sensitivity automated multinuclear 600 MHz NMR platformFrom1 May 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Integration of sustainability assessments in a biorefinery digital twinFrom13 Nov 2019 → 13 Nov 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Innovative MAX phase-containing refractoriesFrom1 Oct 2019 → 1 Mar 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- Towards circular economy strategies for WEEE flows in Ecuador, based on integrated sustainability assessmentsFrom4 Sep 2019 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Computational modeling of materials: from atomistic properties to new functionalitiesFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Synthesis and processing routes of porous materials from Fe-rich slagsFrom4 May 2018 → 4 May 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Research on Interdiffusion Microstructures at the Interfaces of Multi-Component AlloysFrom28 Mar 2018 → 28 Mar 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Concurrent Fe & Al2O3 recovery from Bauxite ResidueFrom20 Nov 2017 → 20 Nov 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Development of Inorganic Polymers for Near-zero Energy DwellingsFrom7 Sep 2017 → 8 Jun 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The Dynamic Environmental and Economic Impacts of the Circular EconomyFrom7 Sep 2017 → 7 Sep 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 325
- Thermodynamics 101(2014)
Authors: Patrick Wollants, Ernst Worrell, Markus A Reuter
Pages: 545 - 554 - Use of bauxite residue slurry as single activator in a hybrid binder system(2017)
Authors: Lukas Arnout, Tobias Hertel, Yiannis Pontikes
Pages: 519 - 527 - Biomass ash as alkaline activator in inorganic polymer synthesis(2015)
Authors: Arne Peys, Hubert Rahier, Yiannis Pontikes
Pages: 233 - 237 - The effect of Cs and Sr on the mechanical properties of blast furnace slag inorganic polymer for radioactive waste immobilisation(2017)
Authors: Niels Vandevenne, Remus Ion Iacobescu, Yiannis Pontikes, Katrijn Gijbels, Sonja Schreurs, Wouter Schroeyers, Remus Ion Iacobescu, Annelies Malfliet
Pages: 401 - 404 - ACQA: an instrument for accrediation and quality assurance in engineering curricula?(2011)
Authors: Elsje Londers, Yolande Berbers, Marie-Paule Buyse, Maurice De Proft, Ludo Froyen
Pages: 286 - 292 - Social life-cycle assessment frameworks: a review of criteria and indicators proposed to assess social and socioeconomic impacts(2018)
Authors: S Sureau, B Mazijn, SR Garrido, Wouter Achten
Pages: 904 - 920 - Exergetic efficiency analysis of a pyrometallurgical zinc recycling process(2009)
Authors: Bart Klaasen, Peter Jones, Patrick Wollants, Bart Blanpain
Pages: 1081 - 1096 - Combined two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) characterization of directionally solidified Al-Cu-Ag-Mg quaternary eutectic(2014)
Authors: Bin Zhou, Ludo Froyen
Pages: 164 - 173 - Valorization of fayalitic slag as pozzolanic material in blended cements(2016)
Authors: Remus Ion Iacobescu, Yiannis Pontikes, Johann Plank, Lei Lei, Timon Echt
Pages: 368 - 371 - Growth behavior of preferentially scalloped intermetallic compounds at extremely thin peripheral Sn/Cu interface(2019)
Authors: Shengyan Shang, Anil Kunwar, Yanfeng Wang, Lin Qu, Haitao Ma, Yunpeng Wang
Pages: 2872 - 2887