Researcher
Bert Sels
- Disciplines:Industrial biotechnology
Affiliations
- Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (CSCE) (Division)
Responsible
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (CSCE) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (Division)
Member
From1 Apr 2019 → 31 Jul 2020 - Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2005 → 30 Sep 2005
Projects
1 - 10 of 161
- Advanced catalytic organosolv fractionation process for complex feedstocksFrom2 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Harnessing pYrolysis & Biotechnology to Recycle mIxed plastic waste to Dicarboxylic acids (HYBRID)From1 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: VLAIO CATALISTI - Cooperative research project
- Mining and refining of second generation biomass into industrial building blocksFrom1 Feb 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates
- Catalyzing the circularity of multilayer plasticsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Advanced process analytics for innovative RCF biorefiningFrom8 Dec 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Biobased aromatic diols as safe and sustainable alternatives for bisphenolsFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - various
- Second generation lactic acid as a renewable platform for a circular bioeconomy (LAPLACE)From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Lignin-first biorefineries featuring self-healing and recyclable vitrimers (GORILLA)From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Lignin based dynamic and circular thermosets (LigDYN)From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Semiconductor photocatalysis for the synthesis of renewable bisphenol-A alternativesFrom29 Aug 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
21 - 30 of 439
- Functionalisation of cellulose as dietary fibre by chain length reduction and amorphisation(2023)
Authors: Karel Thielemans, Bert Sels
- Stepping away from purified solvents in reductive catalytic fractionation: a step forward towards a disruptive wood biorefinery process(2023)
Authors: Wouter Arts, Korneel Van Aelst, Elias Cooreman, Joost Van Aelst, Sander Van den Bosch, Bert Sels
- Metal Catalyst-Dependent Poisoning Effect of Organic Sulfur Species for the Hydroconversion of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural(2023)
Authors: Aleksei Turkin, Fatima Rammal, Samuel Eyley, Wim Thielemans, Ekaterina Makshina, Bert Sels
Pages: 8968 - 8977 - Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulose to High-Yield Aromatic Aldehyde Monomers and Pure Cellulose(2023)
Authors: Bert Sels
Pages: 7929 - 7941 - How intermediate analysis inspires selectivity control for the catalytic reductive amination of carbohydrates toward ethylene polyamines(2023)
Authors: Benjamin Vermeeren, Sofie Van Praet, Wouter Arts, Bert Sels
- Organic Solvent Nanofiltration for the Fractionation of Biobased Phenolic Compounds(2023)
Authors: Tim Croes, Bart Van der Bruggen, Bert Sels
- Hydrogen borrowing amination of lignin building blocks: to valuable amines using supported Cu catalysts(2023)
Authors: Dieter Ruijten, Bert Sels
- The Future Biorefinery: The Impact of Upscaling the Reductive Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulose Biomass on the Quality of the Lignin Oil, Carbohydrate Products, and Pulp(2023)
Authors: Elias Cooreman, Thomas Nicolaï, Wouter Arts, Korneel Van Aelst, Thijs Vangeel, Sander Van den Bosch, Joost Van Aelst, Bert Lagrain, Johan Thevelein, Bert Sels
Pages: 5440 - 5450 - Elucidating the effect of the physicochemical properties of organosolv lignins on its solubility and reductive catalytic depolymerization(2023)
Authors: Korneel Van Aelst, Thijs Vangeel, Joost Van Aelst, Sander Van den Bosch, Bert Sels
- Consider lignin's hydroxyl groups content and type, its molecular weight and content when converting it into epoxy resin(2023)
Authors: Yingtuan Zhang, Svetlana Stepanova, Bert Sels
Patents
1 - 10 of 10
- Lignocellulose refinery (Inventor)
- High melt strength polylactic acid polymers (Inventor)
- Ortho alkoxy bisphenol monomers (Inventor)
- Engineered composition of phenolic compounds (Inventor)
- Mixture of monobranched and polybranched fatty acids (Inventor)
- Zeolite after treatment method (Inventor)
- Fractionation and depolymerisation of lignocellulosic material (Inventor)
- Process for preparing cyclic esters from alpha-hydroxy esters and catalysts used therein (Inventor)
- Biphasic solvent catalytic process for the direct production of light naphtha from carbohydrate-containing feedstock. (Inventor)
- Zeolite after treatment method (Inventor)