Analytical and Circular Chemistry (ACC) research lab @ UHasselt
Joined December 2021
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🪶 Did you know that each year, the poultry industry leaves us with nearly 10 million tons(!) of chicken feathers?
This fluffy food waste is a major source of nitrogen emissions. 👎
A potential solution? Incorporating the nitrogen into biochar via pyrolysis. 👍
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Our latest publication, just out in Bioresource Technology, explores the potential benefits of blending chicken feathers and macadamia nutshells for co-pyrolysis. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iZ1a…
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As part of our SBO-project #BASTA in collaboration with @ILVOVlaanderen, we studied the effects of biochar on NH3 and greenhouse gas emissions 💨 during the storage of cattle slurry 🐄💩 and after soil application. 🌱 1/4
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🥳 Woop woop! Congratulations, Dr. Vercruysse! 🎓
Yesterday, at his PhD defense, Willem Vercruysse impressed the jury and the audience with his work on the "Co-pyrolysis of nitrogen-rich biomass to produce biochar and activated carbon for electrochemical energy storage."
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Yesterday we celebrated the achievements of #BASTA at the closing event in Maasmechelen. 🥳
BASTA = a multidisciplinary research collaboration between @CMK_Uhasselt and @ILVOvlaanderen focused on Biochar's Added value in Sustainable land use with Targeted Applications. 1/5
One of the BASTA research lines, pushed forward by @ACChemlab PhD student Amine Lataf, investigated whether we can use biochars to remediate cadmium pollution.🤔 2/5
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Let’s talk about common ivy 🌿
Willem Vercruysse et al. envision an urban circular biorefinery concept for common ivy: from cultivation in vertical ecosystems via refinery into bioproducts and valuable nutrients and then back into the soil. 1/6
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Esther Mienis, @DriesVandamme and @ImogenFoubert provide a review and summary of best practices of using enzyme-assisted disruption of oleaginous microalgae to extract lipids in the June edition of Current Opinion in Food Science
@ELSfoodscience 📝
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The #microalga Nannochloropsis is able to synthesize valuable lipids for the food 🫘, aquaculture 💧, agriculture 🌾 and bioenergy 🔋 industries, but it has a rigid cell wall that limits the extraction of these lipids. 🔒
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🎓 It’s the opening of the new academic year today. Looking forward to welcoming all new students to UHasselt and hoping a few of them will find their way to @ACChemlab.
With new beginnings, time to take stock of our team’s collective achievements. 1/2
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Kom alvast een kijkje nemen morgen op de dag van de wetenschap in onze @ACChemlab labo's en voer je eigen experimenten uit! @imoimomec @uhasselt
🖍️Noteer 27/11 alvast met stip in je agenda want dan vieren we ook op campus Diepenbeek de wonderlijke Dag van de Wetenschap! Onze onderzoekers boksten de coolste experimenten in elkaar🧑🔬 Kom jij ze ontdekken? #DVDW
🖥️Alle activiteiten vind je op dagvandewetenschap.be
Our @ACChemlab PhD students @uhasselt presented their research during the @EurecaPro PhD journey at the Technical university of Crete. Good to see happy faces!
❗ One of 6 great PhD journeys to choose from!
The main focus of the PhD journey to the Technical University of Crete will be on Sustainable Materials and Products.
#eurecapro #europeanuniversity #studyineurope #technicaluniversityofcrete #phdjourney #sdg12 #sustainability
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Another #biochar paper as #BASTA @FWOVlaanderen project output! Novel biochar screening essay for N sorption. Great to be part of this consortium together with @ILVOvlaanderen and @CMK_Uhasselt sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#tournesol alert! @iremdemiryilmaz came over to test her coagulant and @mchl_TT went to @CecileFormosa lab to understand the mechanisms using #AFM! @FWOVlaanderen
#algae biorefinery case presented in #Sustainability keynote lecture by Steven van Passel @UAntwerpen at #CRFChemCYS2022! Always known it had to happen one day!
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Five of of our @uhasselt students present their research project at #CRFChemCYS2022 !
We are ready for #CRFChemCYS2022 !!! Registration opens on 12/10 at 9h @ChemCYS @SynBioC @CStevens_UGent @MarliesVanBael1 @FbwUGent
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Today Amine presented his poster with real magnetic #biochar sample available @HortiBlueC @FWOVlaanderen @uhasselt
Kick-off meeting of the EOS project PHOSPORE in our @ACChemlab #research group @imoimomec @uhasselt . We are looking forward to collaborate intensively with our academic partners @KULeuven, @VUBrussel , @UCLouvain, @UAntwerpen and @UNamur in the coming 4 years ! @FWOVlaanderen
