Projects
Tilting-Pad Gas Bearings for High-Speed Applications: Analysis, Design and Validation KU Leuven
High-speed bearing technology is essential for the development of small-scale turbomachines, such as micro gas turbines, turbo compressors, and micro expansion turbines. These devices are only energy efficient when they rotate at high speeds, typically beyond 100,000 rpm and at temperatures of a few hundred degrees Celsius. Unfortunately, such high rotational speeds and temperatures are impossible to obtain with conventional bearings. ...
African trypanosomiasis: Diagnosis, treatment and analysis of inflammatory complications. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Behaviour and Design of Built-up Structural Elements Composed of Thin-walled Cold-formed Steel Profiles KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis addresses an increasing demand from the cold-formed steel production industry for more stable load-bearing elements. As buildings constructed entirely from cold-formed steel profiles and sheeting increase their spans, heights and bays, light steel frames not only become more impressive, but the applications of light-steel framing widen.
The limited stability of standard cold-formed steel elements is resolved in the ...
Towards a better understanding of amylose isolation and production, semicrystalline aggregation and potential pharmaceutical use KU Leuven
Amylose (AM) is an almost linear glucose polymer. Together with amylopectin (AP), it makes up the bulk of granular starch. The AM content in regular starches ranges from 20 to 35%. It greatly influences the functionality of starch in aqueous systems. In fully gelatinized starch dispersions, AM crystallization plays a major role in gelation. In many food preparation protocols, AM network formation starts immediately after starch ...
Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations KU Leuven
Systems of polynomial equations arise naturally from many problems in applied mathematics and engineering. Examples of such problems come from robotics, chemical engineering, computer vision, dynamical systems theory, signal processing and geometric modeling, among others. The numerical solution of systems of polynomial equations is considered a challenging problem in computational mathematics. Important classes of existing methods are ...
Potential of processing to modify flavour of single and mixed vegetable systems KU Leuven
Due to the consumer demand, food industries have shown an increased interest in the production of healthier, more natural and more tasty vegetable-based products. In that context, a major challenge is to (re)design the manufacturing processes of such food products in order to comply with the increasingly important requested criteria. Flavour is one of the most important quality attributes in foods affecting consumers’ acceptance. The flavour ...
Modeling the dynamics of microbial communities and their response to perturbations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
TransBio:Biogas Versie 2.0:Â Technological transition of the Flemish biogas sector towards innovative business models with increased profitability and reduced support dependence Biogas-E - Anaerobic digestion platform for Flanders npo
The biogas sector in Flanders counts approx. 40 large scale installations, and 50 to 75 small scale (farm sized) installations. Biogas, as a renewable energy technology, produced 602 GWh of renewable electricity and 850 GWh of renewable heat in 2013. Yearly, 1.3 million tons of organic waste is converted to biogas, alongside hundreds of thousands of tons of manure. The biogas technology is therefore responsible for the valorisation of a large ...
Downstream targets of the metabolic stress sensor SnRK1 - One kinase to rule them all KU Leuven
The evolutionarily conserved SnRK1 (SNF1-related kinase 1) protein kinase (the ortholog of yeast SNF1 and mammalian AMPK) is a major metabolic sensor, allowing acclimatization and energy homeostasis upon changes in energy availability, thereby ensuring plant survival. SnRK1 is activated by low energy stress and repressed by high photosynthetic sugar levels, with the allosteric inhibitor trehalose-6-P acting as a proxy for sucrose supply. To ...