Projects
Improvement of ambient air quality by exploiting plant–microbe partnerships to detoxify fossil fuel-related volatile organic compounds Hasselt University
Improvement of ambient air quality by exploiting plant-microbe partnerships to detoxify fossil fuel-related volatile organic compounds Hasselt University
Half-precessional orbital forcing, the Congo Air Boundary, and geographical diversity in Africa's post-glacial climate history Ghent University
Documenting the spatial variability of past climate change is critical for understanding how external climate forcing, such as long-term changes in solar insolation or today’s anthropogenic increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases, affect earth’s climate at the regional scale. In contrast to the data-rich middle and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, high-quality climate records from equatorial regions are scarce, especially from ...
Sunlight-driven photo-electrochemical hydrogen production from air contaminated with volatile organic compounds. University of Antwerp
Congo Air Boundary dynamics and its impact on East-African rainfall at multiple time scales Ghent University
The Congo Air Boundary (CAB) is a zone of atmospheric convection crossing tropical East Africa in a
southwest to northeast direction, and the boundary between air flows from the Atlantic Ocean in
the west and the Indian Ocean in the east. As the behaviour of these moisture sources can vastly
differ, so too does rainfall on both sides of the CAB. Despite the CAB being a major climate
transition zone impacting many ...
Development of an air purification strategy with microbially precipitated nanocatalysts. Ghent University
This projects wants to apply the added values of microbially precipitated nanocatalysts in water treatment for purification of air. For a number of target pollutants, new types of reactors and new types of catalysts (new biologically precipitated metals, bimetallic catalysts) will be investigated. Next to that, also an detailed caracerisation of the formed nanoparticles are the scope of this research.
The global response of surface air temperature to vegetation changes and its underlying biophysical mechanism Ghent University
Global warming and the rise of carbon dioxide have a profound impact on global vegetation. Recently, a large number of documents have proven that the vegetation in the world is greening.
At the same time, changes in vegetation will also have an impact on the surface temperature, such as absorbing carbon dioxide, and radiation. This greening of the Earth will virtually increase the carbon sequestration, potentially considered as the key ...
Combined electrostatic precipitation-photocatalysis technology for simultaneous abatement of indoor particulate matter, VOCs and NOx pollution: a study based on experimental analysis and multiphysics modelling. University of Antwerp
Translocation of black carbon from the mother to the fetus. Development of a new internal label-free biomarker of black carbon exposures and its link with the early life origin of health and disease concept. KU Leuven
Current ambient outdoor air pollution concentrations are responsible for 3.7 million premature deaths worldwide. The combustion-related particulate matter (PM) air pollution, indicated as black carbon (BC), increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but also chronic respiratory diseases and lung cancer. Two hypotheses are used to explain these findings both from experimental as well as epidemiological studies. First, particles produce ...