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)
Member
From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2016 - Research Department (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2016 - Department of Applied analytical and physical chemistry (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2000 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
1 - 10 of 54
- ReJuiceFrom8 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- AdviSor neTwork foR OptimAl ferTilisers UseFrom1 Feb 2024 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Using upstream anaerobic digestion process-control to achieve minimal content of undesired trace elements - FERTICYCLEFrom23 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Valorising of waste streams to recover nutrients from grass and seaweed biorefineriesFrom14 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Enabling underused bio-waste feedstocks into safe and effective market-ready soil improvers.From1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Cofunding core facility - INSTALABFrom1 May 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Accelerating algae product developments in Baltic and North SeaFrom1 Apr 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- REcycling of NUtrients to close the fertiliser CYCLEFrom24 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- Coagulation-Flocculation as a sustainable harvesting process for microalgae grown in wastewaterFrom1 Mar 2023 → 30 Jun 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- ITN-INFIITYFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
Publications
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- Phosphorus recovery from liquid digestate by chemical precipitation using low‐cost ion sources(2021)
Authors: Lucas Melgaço, Ana Robles Aguilar, Erik Meers, César Mota
Pages: 2891 - 2900 - Differing phosphorus crop availability of aluminium and calcium precipitated dairy processing sludge potential recycled alternatives to mineral phosphorus fertiliser(2021)
Authors: S. M. Ashekuzzaman, Owen Fenton, Erik Meers, Patrick J. Forrestal
- Zn phytoextraction and recycling of alfalfa biomass as potential Zn-biofortified feed crop(2021)
Authors: Xiaolin Wang, Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Haichao Li, Filip Tack, Yong Sik Ok, Erik Meers
- Biochar from greenhouse waste : production, characterization and evaluation for its potential use in the horticultural growing media(2021)
Authors: Dilani Rathnayake Mudiyanselage, Ondrej Masek, Erik Meers, Andrew Goddard, Frederik Ronsse
Pages: 40 - 40 - Begroting van stikstof-, fosfor- en eiwitstromen in het agrovoedingssysteem in Vlaanderen : indicatoren voor efficiëntie en circulariteit(2021)
Authors: Ruben Vingerhoets, Joris De Backer, Anne Adriaens, Sebastiaan Verbesselt, Mieke De Corte, Siegfried Vlaeminck, Marc Spiller, Erik Meers
- Product composition and performance in lab- and field trials for biobased fertilisers and soil improvers recovered from digestate : a report from the H2020 project SYSTEMIC(2021)
Authors: Ivona Sigurnjak, Claudio Brienza, Inge C. Regelink, Caleb Elijah Egene, Gregory Reuland, Hongzhen Luo, Mihalea Šatvar, Massimo Zilio, Erik Meers
- Modeling and optimization of nutrient recovery from wastes : advances and limitations(2020)Series: Wiley Series in Renewable Resources
Authors: Celine Vaneeckhaute, Erik Meers, Evangelina Belia, Peter Vanrolleghem, Gerard Velthof, Evi Michels, René Rietra
Pages: 383 - 404 - Leaching behavior of Cd, Zn and nutrients (K, P, S) from a contaminated soil as affected by amendment with biochar(2020)
Authors: Reinhart Van Poucke, Erik Meers, Filip Tack, Jorg Rinklebe
- Application of biochars and solid fraction of digestate to decrease soil solution Cd, Pb and Zn concentrations in contaminated sandy soils(2020)
Authors: Reinhart Van Poucke, Caleb Elijah Egene, Simon Allaert, Manhattan Lebrun, Sylvain Bourgerie, Domenico Morabito, Yong Sik Ok, Frederik Ronsse, Erik Meers, Filip Tack
Pages: 1589 - 1600 - Occurrence of contaminants in drinking water sources and the potential of biochar for water quality improvement : a review(2020)
Authors: Kumuduni Niroshika Palansooriya, Yi Yang, Yiu Fai Tsang, Binoy Sarkar, Deyi Hou, Xinde Cao, Erik Meers, Jörg Rinklebe, Ki-Hyun Kim, Yong Sik Ok
Pages: 549 - 611