Researcher
Erik Meers
- Disciplines:Environmental management, Recycling, Sustainable agriculture, General chemical and biochemical engineering not elsewhere classified, Biocatalysis, Agrochemistry and fertilisers, Chemical process design
Affiliations
- Department of Green Chemistry and Technology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Agricultural economics (Department)
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From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2016 - Research (Administrative office)
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From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2016 - Department of Applied analytical and physical chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2000 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
1 - 10 of 65
- Maximizing the impact of EIP-agri operational groups for efficient water management on-farm - Unleashing practical knowledge and farmerfriendly resourcesFrom1 Feb 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Nutrient balance and Resource Optimization in Regional Ecosystems through holistic, sustainable, and zero-pollution solutionFrom1 Jan 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- balancing Nitrogen and Phosphorus flOWs by budgEting at Regional scaleFrom1 Jan 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Harnessing Green and Blue Bio-Economies: Grass and Seaweed ValorizationFrom14 Sep 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- ReJuiceFrom8 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- AdviSor neTwork foR OptimAl ferTilisers UseFrom1 Feb 2024 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Using upstream anaerobic digestion process-control to achieve minimal content of undesired trace elements - FERTICYCLEFrom23 Oct 2023 → 22 Oct 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Valorising of waste streams to recover nutrients from grass and seaweed biorefineriesFrom14 Sep 2023 → 13 Sep 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Enabling underused bio-waste feedstocks into safe and effective market-ready soil improvers.From1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Cofunding core facility - INSTALABFrom1 May 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
Publications
1 - 10 of 356
- From grass to gas and beyond : anaerobic digestion as a key enabling technology for a residual grass biorefinery(2024)
Authors: Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Çağrı Akyol, Bernard Willems, Alex Huizinga, Sander van Calker, Miet Van Dael, Annelies De Meyer, Ruben Guisson, Evi Michels, Erik Meers
Pages: 1 - 10 - Digestate in replacement of synthetic fertilisers : a comparative 3-year field study of the crop performance and soil residual nitrates in West-Flanders(2024)
Authors: Gregory Reuland, Tomas Van de Sande, Harmen Dekker, Ivona Sigurnjak, Erik Meers
- Evaluation of performance and efficiency of bio-based and tailor-made fertilisers in selected nutrient vulnerable regions of the EU(2024)
Authors: Vaibhav Shrivastava, Erik Meers, Ivona Sigurnjak
- Solid and liquid fraction of digestate as an alternative mineral nitrogen source : two-year field research in Croatia(2024)
Authors: Mihaela Šatvar, Marko Petek, Boris Lazarević, Željko Jukić, Erik Meers, Lepomir Čoga
- Enhancing swine manure treatment : a full-scale techno-economic assessment of nitrogen recovery, pure oxygen aeration and effluent polishing(2024)
Authors: Ruben Vingerhoets, Ivona Sigurnjak, Marc Spiller, Siegfried Vlaeminck, Erik Meers
- The use of digestate as a biobased fertiliser : nitrogen fertilising properties and interactions with soil organic carbon(2024)
Authors: Gregory Reuland, Erik Meers, Ivona Sigurnjak
- PULSE process : recovery of phosphorus from dried sewage sludge and removal of metals by solvent extraction(2024)
Authors: Zaheer Ahmed Shariff, Laurent Fraikin, Aleksandra Bogdan, Angélique Léonard, Erik Meers, Andreas Pfennig
Pages: 2820 - 2832 - Hydrothermal carbonisation of manure-derived digestates : chemical properties and heavy metals distribution in end-products(2024)
Authors: Hellen Luisa de Castro e Silva, Stef Ghysels, Ana Robles Aguilar, Çağrı Akyol, Frederik Ronsse, Erik Meers
- An energy-efficient upconcentration of the bio-based carboxylic acids using multiple-effect evaporators(2024)
Authors: Srija Balachandran, Tobias De Somer, Joël Hogie, Martijn Roosen, Erik Meers, Steven De Meester
- The potential of microalgae for carbon capture and sequestration(2024)
Authors: Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Erik Meers, Silvio Mangini