Code
01SF1215
Duration
01 November 2015 → 30 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Chemical product design and formulation
- Sustainable and environmental engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biological system engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biomechanical engineering
- Other (bio)medical engineering
- Environmental engineering and biotechnology
- Industrial biotechnology
- Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Keywords
Sustainabilty
biopharmaceuticals
forecasting
Project description
The project aims at assessing the sustainability of emerging biopharmaceutical production processes considering both environmental and economic aspects by combining Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing. New methods will be developed to estimate the required data to forecast the environmental and economic sustainability of these technologies at pilot and at full scale.