Research groups
Key experts
- Abbas Alloul
- Jan Dries
- Silvia Lenaerts
- Sara Melis
- Marc Spiller
- Tim Van Winckel
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
Selected projects
WaterREACT: creating a tool which computes and visualizes water exchanges in an industrial setting.
Nitrogenisor: N-Recovery for space applications: Urine treatment with partial-nitration anammox to produce N2 gas to maintain cabine pressure.
Membreather: Decentralised treatment and resource recovery of sewage using membrane aeration biofilm reactors.
SARASWATI 2.0: decentralized wastewater treatment. Pilot scale raceway reactor for municipal wastewater treatment with purple phototrophic bacteria under construction in India.
PFAS-Removal: In the project, we want to evaluate and optimise (combinations of) different existing techniques for PFAS removal from industrial wastewater, including cost-benefit analysis and scalability. In addition, we want to gain insight into the behaviour of PFAS in industrial (biological) wastewater treatment plants, more specifically how the management of the biology affects PFAS removal by binding to the activated sludge.
BioPOM: Biological phosporus removal from potato processing industrial wastewater.
AGS-MBR: More efficient, compact and less energy-consuming wastewater treatment technologies are urgently needed to meet increasingly stringent discharge standards and to cope with the general water shortage (requiring water reuse). This research aims to achieve and maintain stable granulation of aerobic granular sludge and integrate this with membrane bioreactors in continuous-fed reactors. Our central research hypothesis is that the main granulation mechanism, namely microbial selection, can be applied to continuous-fed systems.
Smart Granules: Dynamic control of nutrient removal in small-scale industrial aerobic granular sludge systems