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
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- Field emission gun electron microprobe for quantitative submicron chemical and phase analysis of multicomponent materials.From1 Aug 2010 → 6 Nov 2016Funding: Hercules - Large scale research infrastructure
- Near Atmospheric Pressure Characterization and processing StationFrom1 Jul 2010 → 28 Apr 2017Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
- Modeling and Simulation of Microstructural Coarsening in Polycrystalline MaterialsFrom25 May 2010 → 22 Oct 2018Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Multiscale study of reactive gas injection in pyrometallurgical processes.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2013Funding: FWO research project
- Monitoring and control of process-material interaction in laser manufacturing processes.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2014Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Analysis of the microstructural evolution during cooling and heating of slags-based systems.From1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2015Funding: FWO fellowships
- Sustainable materialization of residues from thermal processes into products (SMaRT-Pro2).From1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2013Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- Prodex-9 SETAplus C90386.From1 Sep 2009 → 31 Jul 2016Funding: ESA incl. Intelsat
- Phase field of crystal models for ternary systems with intermetallic phases.From1 Jan 2009 → 31 Dec 2014Funding: FWO research project
- Fundamentals and optimization of a new production process for solar grade silicon.From29 Sep 2008 → 2 Jul 2014Funding: Baekeland
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