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)
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From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Agricultural economics (Department)
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From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2016 - Research Department (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
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- A biorefinery approach to exploit digestate as key feedstock in the energy – nutrient nexus (BioDEN)From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: IWT / VLAIO - TETRA fund
- LemnaPro, Growing and processing water lentils as an alternative protein crop in FlandersFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: IWT / VLAIO - Agricultural research
- Techno-economic assessment of agro-industrial nutrient recovery processes.From1 Nov 2021 → 28 Feb 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Quality and effectivity assessment of phosphorus fertilizers recovered from municipal wastewater.From18 Sep 2021 → 17 Jan 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- RENURE - operational group in which ammonium salts recovered from manure are used as fertilizers and tested in real agricultural practiceFrom1 Sep 2021 → 31 Aug 2023Funding: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
- Closing waste water cycles for nutrient recoveryFrom1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
- Feasibility of recycling biomass from Cu/Zn contaminated soil to produce mineral feed supplement for livestock.From1 Aug 2021 → 31 Jan 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Open Innovation test bed for developing safe nano-enabled bio-based materials and polymer bionanocomposites for multifunctional and new advanced applicationsFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
- Producing advanced bio-based fertilizers from fisheries wastesFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
- Effects of amendments and plant rhizosphere processes on the migration and transformation of heavy metals in soil in frame of phytoremediationFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
Publications
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- Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) field cultivation in a phytoattenuation strategy and valorization potential of the fibers for textile production(2023)
Authors: Béatrice De Vos, Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Evi Michels, Erik Meers
Pages: 41665 - 41681 - Acidification and solar drying of manure-based digestate to produce improved fertilizing products(2023)
Authors: Lluis Morey Gual, B. Fernandez, L. Tey, C. Biel, Ana Robles Aguilar, Erik Meers, J. Soler, R. Porta, M. Cots, V. Riau
- Detailed nitrogen and phosphorus flow analysis, nutrient use efficiency and circularity in the agri-food system of a livestock-intensive region(2023)
Authors: Ruben Vingerhoets, Marc Spiller, Joris De Backer, Anne Adriaens, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, Erik Meers
- Exploring the environmental consequences of roadside grass as a biogas feedstock in Northwest Europe(2023)
Authors: Rahul Ravi, Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Anne Adriaens, Ruben Vingerhoets, Hongzhen Luo, Miet Van Dael, Erik Meers
- Cycles of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in poultry manure management technologies : environmental aspects(2023)
Authors: Malgorzata Kacprzak, Krystyna Malinska, Anna Grosser, Jolanta Sobik-Szoltysek, Katarzyna Wystalska, Danuta Dróżdż, Anna Jasinska, Erik Meers
Pages: 914 - 938 - Field evaluation of industrial non-food crops for phytomanaging a metal-contaminated dredged sediment(2023)
Authors: Alexandre Perlein, Valérie Bert, Marcella Fernandes De Souza, Arnaud Papin, Erik Meers
Pages: 44963 - 44984 - Quantifying CO2 emissions and carbon sequestration from digestate-amended soil using natural 13C abundance as a tracer(2023)
Authors: Gregory Reuland, Steven Sleutel, Haichao Li, Harmen Dekker, Ivona Sigurnjak, Erik Meers
- Nutrient recovery and recycling from fishery waste and by-products(2023)
Authors: Jingsi Zhang, Çağrı Akyol, Erik Meers
- Evaluation of a new approach for swine wastewater valorisation and treatment : a combined system of ammonium recovery and aerated constructed wetland(2023)
Authors: Claudio Brienza, Natalia Carolina Donoso Pantoja, Hongzhen Luo, Ruben Vingerhoets, Denis de Wilde, Dion van Oirschot, Ivona Sigurnjak, Jayanta Kumar Biswas, Evi Michels, Erik Meers
- Black soldier fly larvae as an alternative feed source and agro-waste disposal route : a life cycle perspective(2023)
Authors: Miriam Beyers, C. Coudron, Rahul Ravi, Erik Meers, S. Bruun