Multiscale Analysis and Design for Process Intensification and Innovation

Transformative chemistry for a sustainable energy future

Conversion of plastic waste to basic chemicals via gasification

Smart plastic waste conversion for a circular economy

Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams/building insulation and coatings

Tailored design of nanostructured bimetallic Pt-catalysts for (de)hydrogenation reactions

international Francqui Professor dr Rodney Fox 2015-2016

Computational Fluid Dynamics based design of a novel reactor technology for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane

Development and validation of a versatile modeling platform for atom transfer radical polymerization 

Adaptable Reactors for Resource- and Energy-Efficient Methane Valorisation

Design of water-based radical polymerization processes for nanoapplications using advanced kinetic modeling and reactor technology

Development of Novel Materials for Carbon dioxide Capture and Conversion (DyNaMiC³)

Process intensification through reactive flow modulation (Pi-Flow)

COILSIM – An advanced simulation and optimization software for the ethylene industry

BIOLEUM: Fuels and Chemicals by fast pyrolysis of biomass

WAVES: WAste bio-feedstocks hydro-Valorisation processES

FAST industrialisation by CAtalysts Research and Development

Industrial chemistry, and process

Carbolineum: Catalytic conversion of carbohydrate secondary flows for the development of innovative new chemical applications.

modified iron oxide materials for hydrogen production studied by operando XAS and TEM

Developing a multiscale modeling platform for the optimization of radical polymerization

Functional Supramolecular Systems

Intrinsic Catalytic Kinetics Analyzed and Reconciled with Industrial Conditions (ICKARUS)

Model-based Optimization and Control for Process-Intensification in Chemical and Biopharmaceutical Systems

Computational Fluid Dynamics based design of steam cracking reactors using detailed kinetic models

Development of Automatic Reaction Network Generation Technology: Implementation of 3D Structure & Reactivity

atomic layer deposition: a new tool for model based tailoring of acid catalytic activity of microporous, mesoporous and hierarchical materials.

Development of Automatic Reaction Network Generation Technology: Implementation of 3D Structure & Reactivity

Simulation and optimization of industrial steam cracking furnaces for fossil and renewable hydrocarbon fractions

Production of base chemicals from renewable and fossil feedstocks for a sustainable society

Multi-scale Computational Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Systems

Ab initio based design of heterogeneous Pt bimetal catalysts: hydrogenation of aromatics.

Modeling of pyrolysis and combustion of model components for renewable feedstocks.

Oxidative Coupling of Methane followed by Oligomerization to Liquids (OCMOL)

Multi-scale Modeling and Design of chemical Reactions and Reactors (M2dcR2)

Ab initio modeling of acid-catalyzed hydrocarbon conversion processes

Coupling transport phenomena and intrinsic kinetics for free radical polymerization processes

Reconstruction of the molecular composition of complex power supply units for (bio) chemical production processes.

Supramolecular Functional Systems

Unravelling the pyrolysis chemistry of sulphur, nitrogen and oxygen containing hydrocarbon mixtures

Development of the Gas-Solid Vortex-Rotor Reactor

The development of a Non-Isocyanate, Self-Curable, One-Pack Foam

In situ XRF and XAS study of Atomic Layer Deposition on flat and porous sustrates - deposition of bimetallic materials.