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
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- Functionalisation of cellulose as dietary fibre by chain length reduction and amorphisationFrom3 Sep 2018 → 20 Jun 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Acid catalysis for conversion of carbohydrates to sulphide derivativesFrom22 Feb 2018 → 7 Mar 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- SPICY - Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered YeastFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jul 2022Funding: VLAIO CATALISTI - Cooperative research project
- A safe and sustainable bisphenol platform for high-performance thermoset materials.From1 Jan 2018 → 26 Aug 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Reductive Catalytic Fractionation of lignocellulose: insights in the lignin fractionFrom1 Jan 2018 → 23 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- BAFTA - Bio-Aromatics Feedstock and Technology AssessmentFrom1 Jan 2018 → 30 Jun 2019Funding: IWT / VLAIO - VIS
- Towards a pilot-scale lignin-first biorefinery: maturing & expanding the technologyFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- An integrated biorefinery for the conversion of dairy side streams to high value bio-based chemicalsFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: H2020 - European Institute of Innovation and Technology
- Rational valorization of waste plastics by combined reactor and catalyst engineeringFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Novel Sn catalysis for the production of acrylic acidFrom1 Jan 2018 → 1 Feb 2022Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
Publications
1 - 10 of 439
- Magnetic Exchange Coupling in Zeolite Copper Dimers and Its Contribution to Methane Activation(2024)
Authors: Alexander Heyer, Dieter Plessers, Jing Ma, Robert Schoonheydt, Bert Sels
Pages: 6061 - 6071 - Advancements and Perspectives toward Lignin Valorization via O-Demethylation(2024)
- Feasibility of wood as a renewable carbon feedstock for the production of chemicals in Europe(2024)
Authors: Wouter Arts, Ilié Storms, Joost Van Aelst, Bert Lagrain, Bruno Verbist, Jos Van Orshoven, Bart Muys, Bert Sels
- Catalytic reductive amination of α-hydroxy carbonyl oxygenates Selective production of bio-based aliphatic amines(2024)
Authors: Benjamin Vermeeren, Bert Sels
- In Situ UV-Vis-NIR Absorption Spectroscopy and Catalysis.(2024)
Authors: Max Bols, Jing Ma, Fatima Rammal, Dieter Plessers, Xuejiao Wu, Sara Navarro Jaén, Alexander Heyer, Bert Sels, Robert Schoonheydt
Pages: 2352 - 2418 - Spatio-temporal feedstock availability and techno-economic constraints in the design and optimization of supply chains: The case of domestic woody biomass for biorefining(2024)
Authors: Ilié Storms, Jos Van Orshoven, Bruno Verbist, Wouter Arts, Sander Van den Bosch, Joost Van Aelst, Bert Sels
- Biomass to biofuels using hydrothermal liquefaction: A comprehensive review(2024)
Authors: Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Luigi Vaccaro, Bert Sels
- Real-time multi-physical system identification and virtual sensing for a lab-scale chemical stirred tank using parallel estimators(2024)
Authors: Arash Mohammadali Zadeh Fard, Matteo Kirchner, Bart Blockmans, Wouter Arts, Bert Sels, Bert Pluymers, Wim Desmet, Frank Naets
- Catalytic hydrolysis of lignin-derived aryl methyl ethers over zeolites(2023)
- Renewable and safer bisphenol A substitutes enabled by selective zeolite alkylation(2023)
Authors: Laura Trullemans, Elias Cooreman, Tessy Hendrickx, Peter Van Puyvelde, Michiel Dusselier, 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)