Code
01D03516
Duration
01 November 2016 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Sustainable chemistry
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
- Environmental science and management
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Sustainable and environmental engineering
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
- Metallurgical engineering
Keywords
Biosorption
Project description
A high throughput experimentation platform for (bio)sorption and (bio)leaching of metals will be set up and optimized. Subsequently, this platform will be used to develop a novel hybrid sorption-based process for selective recovery of technology-critical elements from industrial wastewaters and to develop a novel leaching process in order to selectively recover valuable metals from mine tailings.