Projects
Techno-economic assessment of agro-industrial nutrient recovery processes. Ghent University
This research focuses on nutrient recovery from manure and biowaste used in biogas installations.
As part of the research, three different innovative processes (ammonia stripping, membrane filtration and evaporation/condensation) that can be used to retrieve nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium will be mapped. The mass flow analyses will determine the fate of each component throughout the biorefinery process, resulting in renewable ...
RENURE - operational group in which ammonium salts recovered from manure are used as fertilizers and tested in real agricultural practice Ghent University
In the Flemish agricultural sector, there is a nutrient surplus of animal source on the one hand, while on the other hand additional nutrients are supplied in the form of artificial fertilizer. Stripping-scrubbing is a technology that makes it possible to upgrade nutrients from manure to ammonium salts. However, these fertilisers are not yet applied in practice, as they are considered as animal manure and must therefore comply with the ...
Establishing new legume-based farming systems in Northeast Thailand using drought-tolerance traits of wild legume and rhizobia populations Ghent University
Nitrogen (N) is required for plant growth in large quantities, yet it is typically deficient in tropical soils. Unlike other elements that must be replenished by mineral fertilisers, plant-usable N can be supplied by legumes that perform Biological N2-fixation (BNF) in association with rhizobia bacteria. This is particularly important in Northeast Thailand where most smallholding farmers cannot afford sufficient fertiliser inputs. There, the ...
Substitution of fossil-resource based fertilizers by mineral nutrients recovered from biobased side streams Ghent University
This research focuses on the recovery of mineral nutrients from organic-biological waste(water) streams and their upcycling into renewable substitutes for synthetic fertilisers, which itself is produced from fossil resources. This proposal will secure funding for 2 incoming Joint PhD, as well as specialized analytical infrastructure for 5 PhD and lab-technical & postdoctoral support for this group of PhD students.
Development and validation of applicable chemical analysis for the determination of organic and inorganic agro-chemicals in food and their presence in organic soil improvers for innovative agricultural production and food security in Cuba Ghent University
This project will identify the fate of agrochemicals commonly used in Cuba for fruit and vegetable crop production. Methods and analytical techniques to detect these organic and anorganic compounds at trace-level through laboratory and field studies will be evaluated to propose and validate the most suitable techniques for use with the Cuban facilities. Bio-fertilisers which replace traditionally used agrochemicals without diminishing ...
Cross-fertilisation Between Children's Rights and Human Rights in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Towards an Integrated Conceptual Framework. University of Antwerp
Market-oriented validation of SAFETY96: Method for determining a toxicity and/or growth promotion effect of a treatment or compound Hasselt University
Using upstream anaerobic digestion process-control to achieve minimal content of undesired trace elements - FERTICYCLE Ghent University
The main objective of this research is to investigate different experimental conditions for hydrothermal process applied to digestates of mono-digestion and co-digestion processes with the main goal of reducing the heavy metals concentrations and bioavailability. It is hypothesized that these factors will be reduced by controlling different parameters of hydrothermal process such as temperature and retention times