Food production has a huge impact on the environment. Protein production via animals – meat – has a huge footprint in terms of CO2 emissions as well as land and water use (e.g. 1 kg of beef produces more than 20 kg of CO2, requires around 2 ha of land and around 15.000 litres of …
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For almost a decade, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is collaborating with Arcelor Mittal on the development of sustainable fermentation processes that can convert industrial steel mill gases into added value products. Microbes, it is all about microbes! The more than 2000 years old and most popular fermentation process uses yeast to convert malt and …
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More than 5 million tons of plastic ends up in the sea every year. In addition, the emissions that are released during the petrochemical plastic production process are also polluting. The development of bioplastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), is receiving increasing attention from this perspective. PHA are characterized by their excellent biodegradability and can be …
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For several years, researchers of the Transport Technology group at Ghent University have collaborated with the engineers of ABC Engines to investigate alternative fuels for the maritime sector. Based on important criteria such as sustainability, scalability and storability, methanol has been selected by the researchers as one of the main candidates to transform the maritime …
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Following a chemical looping approach, scientists from the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University have pioneered the development of an intensified process for efficient CO2 conversion: Super-Dry Reforming (SDR). Through a smart combination and integration of three existing industrial processes (CH4 dry reforming, CO2 capture by a sorbent and CO2 conversion over an oxygen …
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