Debond - Advancing recycling of multilayer plastics and textiles using an integrated approach for debonding on demand technology

Doctoral project Steven De Meester

Analysis of postconsumer plastic packaging waste along the recycling chain: Gaining systematic insights into waste compositions and VOC removal.

Analysis of quantity and quality of available feedstock for chemical recycling of plastic waste

Data Availability and Application of Plastic Additive Flows in LCAs of Plastics for the Circular Economy.

Development of chemical wash processes as advanced pretreatment in plastic recycling

Development of plastic life cycles with more biobased content and more circularity

Distillation of pyrolysis oils produced from plastic waste.

Doctoral project Christina Kibuta

Doctoral project Elisabetta Carrieri

Doctoral project Gabi Altabash

Doctoral project Kerstin Kleinhans

Doctoral project Michiel Van Melkebeke

Doctoral project Owais Ur Rehman Khan

Doctoral project Srija Balachandran

Downstream processing of depolymerisation products of plastic waste

Experimental and theoretical study on solvent-based recycling techniques for PVC.

Modeling leaching and dissolution processes in the frame of plastic recycling

Modeling material flows through plastic recycling chains.

Purification of monomers from depolymerization of waste plastics

Purification of pyrolysis oils from plastic waste

Solvent techniques for closed-loop recycling of plastic waste.

Substance and Material Flow Analysis of plastic waste: Opportunities towards sustainable circular economy strategies

The measurement of odor and odor removal of plastic waste

The removal of disturbing (N)IAS from plastic waste by dissolution recycling

The use of biobased solvents and biosurfacts in plastic recycling

Towards the production of natural dyes and composite boards from nutshell waste

Understanding and optimizing the washing step in the mechanical recycling of plastics.

Biogas Biorefineries : Securing domestic production of cost-effective biomethane

Chemical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Packaging Waste via Pyrolysis and Steam Cracking: The Role of Contaminants

CYCLOPS - Chemical recYCLing of Oxygenated Polymer materialS

Design for Circularity with Plastics

Doctoral project Baptiste Vanleenhove

Doctoral project Brecht Tomme

Doctoral project Hina Habib

Doctoral project Najwa Binti Mat Yasin

Doctoral project Sepehr Madanikashani

Exploring the potential environmental performance of pyrolytic chemical recycling methods for waste plastics.

Modelling the conversion of plastic waste to olefins: from sorting to cracking

Phosphorus recovery from biogas biorefineries

The development of a holistic circularibility framework in function of product design based on quality metrics

A combined dissolution, delamination and catalysis approach to upcycling of multilayered packaging materials

A Disruptive Innovative Cooperative Entrepreneurial (DICE) education, training and skills development programme rolling out the next generation of Agri Biorefinery and Valorisation Bioeconomy leaders

Analytical support for the research on plastic recycling in the research group of prof. De Meester

Chemical recYCLing of Oxygenated Polymer materialS (CYCLOPS)

Circular brominated plastics

Circular Packaging for Direct Food Contact Applications

Circular Plastics Network for Training

Climate-Smart water allocation

Closing the loop in carton packaging recycling (PolyAl Circular)

Delamination and deinking of plastic waste: a game changer towards closed loop plastic recycling (MACERATE)

Demonstrator of systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy in the Trilateral Chemical Region with a focus on plastic waste streams Quality for Recycling

Design of downstream processes for the isolation of precious chemicals from waste plastic pyrolysis oil

Downstream processing of carboxylic acids from fermentation broths

Fully closed circle for re- and upcycling of used polymer

Increase recyclability of plastic food packaging by connecting food packaging chain actors in the cross-border territory

Natural dyes from food waste; the use of molecular engineering to develop fit-for-purpose extraction pathways

Non-domestic plastic packaging: Rethink, Reuse, Recycle

P2PC_Plastics to Precious Chemicals

PROFIT: Refining of household waste: recuperation and valorisation of plastic with focus on end use

Promoting innovation for sustainable sorting and recycling of dedicated bio-based plastics

Quality of (recycled) plastics in film blowing

ReMixT: Separation and recycling of mixed textiles

RENOVATE-2 - Solvent-resistant nano- and ultrafiltration: opening new perspectives in plastic recycling

Solvent based recycling of plastic waste

Solvent-resistant nano- and ultrafiltration: opening new perspectives in plastic recycling

The plastics refinery: No more waste

Towards a more integrated management of organic waste in Kenya: the production of natural dyes from fruit and vegetable waste in Kenya

Towards closed-loop recycling of plastic packaging using temperature and pressure swing systems

VOKL - Resourcing Plastics from the City

ZERO-WASTE: zero waste approach for high-wire cultivation in the greenhouse horticulture

Chemical recycling of plastic waste: model-guided design and optimization of sorting and pyrolysis processes

Downstream processing of volatile fatty acids obtained through fermentation of organic waste

High temperature Gel Permeation Chromatography

North-C-Blade

Sustainable ectoine production through methanotrophs and algae: from biogas to high-value product (EctoMet)