Projects
PHOSphorus Recovery from waste water FOR YOUr Life Ghent University
Phos4You (P4Y) addresses the phosphorus (P) challenge. P is a nutrient essential for all living organisms. Though it is a finite resource on earth, P is largely wasted today. The EU acknowledged this by adding phosphate rock to its list of critical raw materials in 2014. There is a need to boost the use of secondary raw P. The project addresses rural, urban and port areas in NWE. P is needed in rural areas as fertilizer or feed additive ...
Study of pharmaceutically relevant contaminants in waste and surface water using new techniques in liquid chromatography KU Leuven
In this thesis the degradation by electrochemical oxidation via boron doped diamond (BDD) was assessed for the selected pharmaceutical compounds iopromide (IOP), sulfamethoxazole (SMX), 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) and diclofenac (DCF) in simulated wastewater (SWW) and real hospital effluent wastewater (RWW). The influence of the applied current, the flow rate through the electrochemical cell, the initial compound concentration and the ...
Moleculary Imprinted Polymers for Waste Water Treatment Hasselt University
Closing waste water cycles for nutrient recovery Ghent University
WalNUT aims to develop the necessary concepts and technological solutions to re-design the value and supply chains of nutrients from waste water and brine, while staying in line with the objectives of the EIP on Agrifood and Raw Materials. A wide range of technological processes (physico-chemical, electro-chemical, biological) will be validated in labscale. 5 pilot plants for the nutrient recovery from waste water and brine will be tailored ...
Chemical recycling of plastic waste to oil in supercritical water Ghent University
Chemical recycling of plastic waste to oil followed by subsequent steam cracking into light olefins will become the main route for reduction of the escalating plastic waste crisis in the coming decade. Plastic waste contains a significant amount of contaminants in the form of heteroatomic compounds containing O, N, S, Cl and Br. Steam crackers have strict limits on these contaminant concentrations to ensure a high quality product and protect ...