Projects
Photooxidation of antibiotics in multiphase flow in a microreactor by using visible-light active red mud-based geopolymers KU Leuven
Removing antibiotics from wastewater requires further attention because of a continuously increased pollution level. One of the prominent ways to remove antibiotics is through advanced oxidation processes that are primarily performed in batch reactors. Batch reactors suffer from poor mass and photon transfer, which is especially problematic for photocatalytic oxidation processes as this strongly limits the efficacy of the process. ...
Continuous cooling crystallization of complex organic active pharmaceutical ingredients in a microreactor KU Leuven
Intensification of pharmaceutical manufacturing will enhance the production efficiency, while also improving the utilization of resources, such as space, energy, and raw materials. The pharmaceutical industry still relies heavily on batch-wise production, but the development and application of microfluidic technology has enabled on-demand synthesis of pharmaceutical products using miniaturized continuous platforms. To achieve end-to-end local ...
Exploiting ultrasound resonance to intensify photochemical reactors KU Leuven
Small-scale flow reactors for photochemistry support the shift in
chemical manufacture towards green and sustainable processes
based on renewable energy sources. However, the industrial
application of these small-scale flow reactors is significantly limited
by their currently achieved throughput and productivity. This project
aims to overcome these productivity limitations by exploiting the
...Development of highly efficient gas/liquid photomicroreactor systems Ghent University
The use of miniaturized reactor systems (microreactors) will be evaluated in photochemical reactions. These are not hampered by low penetration of light, due to the small channels, and can mediate good contact between gaseous and liquid products. Energy efficiency will be improved by taking advantage of recent advances in lighting technology. Energy efficient LED and laser lighting lowers energy demands.
OrthoChirp KU Leuven
The OrthoChirp project combines for the first time two cutting edge research techniques, the fast mechano-spectroscopical probing of mechanical properties of gelling or mutating soft matter with an optimally windowed chirps (OWCh) as employed by bats or dolphins, with the possibility to superpose such a signal onto a flowing system with orthogonal superposition rheometry (OSR). While the possibilities of both techniques by themselves are ...
Design of Complex PISA Nano Objects via (PET)-RAFT DispersedSystems in Continuous Micro Flow Reactors. Hasselt University
Halogenation in flow: a safe an sustainable alternative to the use of chlorine gas and elemental bromine in batch. Ghent University
The time of big industrial installations spewing clouds of smoke and carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere is over. Nowadays, the main issues in industrial processes are safety, sustainability
and efficiency. Quality wins the favour over quantity. A possible way of achieving this is by
replacing hazardous chemical batch processes by microreactor processes. Microreactor and
mesoreactor technology consist of pumping the ...
Micro- and millireactor technology for difficult batch reactions in organic chemistry Ghent University
This project aims at the study of specific organic reactions which are difficult to scale up or to perform under batch conditions. A number of generic reactions will be studied in order to be able to perform these under microreactor conditions. The microreactor procedure will be studied fundamentally and will be optimised to make these reactions industrially relevant.
Synthesis and evaluation of novel covalent triazine frameworks for heterogeneous catalysis in flow systems Ghent University
The aim of this research proposal is to contribute to the development of a new generation of
covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs) as support material in heterogeneous catalysis. CTFs are the
next step in a long chain of development of functional nanoporous materials and are build up by
stitching organic molecules together into extended structures. The possibility to make these
materials by design and the exceptional ...