Projecten

ASH-CEM richt zich op de ontwikkeling van een nieuw type binder, zowel cement als carbonatatie gebaseerd, door gebruik te maken van behandelde MSWI verbrandingsassen (MSWI: Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators -vast gemeentelijk/stedelijk afval verbrandingsinstallaties). Deze binders mikken enerzijds op prefab of stortklaar beton voor structurele toepassingen in gewapend beton indien op basis van cement, en anderzijds op aardvochtig persbeton ...

Europe has somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 landfill sites, with an estimated 90% of them being “non-sanitary” landfills, predating the EU Landfill Directive of 1999. These older landfills tend to be filled with municipal solid waste and often lack any environmental protection technology. In order to avoid future environmental and health problems, many of these landfills will soon require expensive remediation measures. This situation ...

The aim of the PhD research is to establish a detailed design for an advanced thermal treatment of waste/biomass, combining working principles of incineration, gasification and pyrolysis in a single, multi-modular and operationally flexible process. Engineering correlations and thermochemical data will be collected, and tools developed to model and compare some of the most commonly used process configurations for thermal ...

Thermosetting Polyurethanes (PU) provide a unique combination of durability, light weight, high strength and flexibility to high value consumer goods and other applications. PU thermosets have grown to a global market of 50 billion €, ultimately resulting in high volumes of waste mostly disposed via landfill or incineration as the SOA of the recycling technology is limited. PUReSmart will bridge the gap between the current PU linear economy ...

Fosfor (P) is een essentieel nutriënt voor alle levende organismen. Momenteel wordt de P die gebruikt wordt in meststoffen en dierenvoeding voornamelijk gewonnen uit niet-hernieuwbare fosfaatrots waarvan de reserves uitgeput geraken. De Europese Unie (EU) beschouwt P en fosfaatrots beide als kritieke grondstoffen vanwege hun strategisch belang en de economische afhankelijkheid van een beperkt aantal niet-EU landen met nog ...

Unlike China, Russia or South Africa, the EU-28 Member States are not in the fortunate position of having vast, easily accessible ore deposits containing valuable metals. However, Europe does have large quantities of secondary industrial residues (tailings, sludges, slags and ashes) that contain sig¬nificant concentrations of both critical and economically important metals. The Euro¬pean Training Network for the Sustainable, zero-waste ...