Projects
EPOS - Enhanced energy and resource Efficiency and Performance in process industry Operations via onsite and cross-sectorial Symbiosis Ghent University
With the aim of reinforcing competitiveness in the EU industry, EPOS aspires to create cross-sectorial knowledge and collaboration by developing an innovative Industrial Symbiosis toolbox. The project generates cross-sector understanding, demonstrates technological and organisational cluster options and introduces a management system for making business and site operations more efficient, more cost-effective, more competitive and more ...
Boosting collaboration between research centres and industry to enhance rapid industrial uptake of innovative functional textile structures and textile related materials in a mondial market U+2013 2BFUNTEX Ghent University
2BFUNTEX aims at developing an Open Innovation Platform for current and future actions in research, education and technology transfer in the field of functional textiles for all innovation actors. Further, multidisciplinary teams will be set up oriented towards untapping the experienced potential and to enhance transfer of the knowledge available at universities and research institutes to industry to favour rapid industrial uptake.
Chemical building blocks from versatile MSW biorefinery Ghent University
PERCAL exploits municipal solid waste (MSW) as feedstock to develop industrially relevant intermedaite chemical products at high yield and high purity. Targets of PERCAL include ethyl lactate, succinic acid biosurfactants. PERCAL introduces novel production (pretreatment of MSW and fermentation), extraction and purification pipelines including in house (CMET) developed membrane electrolysis.
Chemical Engineering Immersive Learning KU Leuven
The chemical industry in Europe faces stiff competition as it fights to strengthen its position in the global market place. Europe’s greatest asset is its human capital, but the people working in such a technology-based environment, with the rise of the “smart factories” of Industry 4.0, need to be very well qualified. The situation of yesteryear, where a person could be trained to carry out a job for the whole of his/her career has long ...
BIOfilm management and CLEANing by leveraging fundamental understanding of biological, chemical and physical combined approaches KU Leuven
BIOCLEAN addresses the urgent need to create a sustainable training network across academia, industry and the healthcare sector which will fill the gap in Europe and beyond to produce highly skilled multi-disciplinary young scientists competent in chemistry, engineering and experimental wet lab biology. BIOCLEAN will deliver this network of young scientists who can apply their proven skill sets gained during the project life time to solve ...
Chemical Manufacturing Methods for the 21st Century Pharmaceuticals Industries (CHEM21). University of Antwerp
Disruptive photonic devices for highly efficient, sunlight-fueled chemical processes Hasselt University
Electricity driven Low Energy and Chemical input Technology foR Accelerated bioremediation Ghent University
The ELECTRA project is a EU-China RTD joint initiative that will deliver 2 innovative sets of novel electromicrobiology based environmental biotechnologies, facilitating/improving electron transfer during microbial degradation processes. Our approach will accelerate the elimination of several classes of pollutants and mixtures thereof in contaminated wastewater, groundwater, sediment and soil. The first set of biotechnologies employs ...
Automatic generation of Chemical Models Ghent University
Chemical reactions that produce new compounds are vital to almost all areas of chemical and materials research, development and production. The design of the chemical reactors in which the reactions take place must suit the intended goal of the reaction. However, many processes are complex reaction networks rather than a couple of reactants and a product, making reactor design challenging. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ...