We develop:

Clean, safe and cost-efficient

• Resource efficient, low or positive in energy, minimum emissions
• Low in undesirable trace contaminants/emerging pollutants
• Mass/substance flow analysis (MFA/SFA), life cycle analysis (LCA), techno-economic assessment (TEA)

Microbial technology

• Innovative nitrogen removal from wastewater (e.g. anammox)
• Carbon capture: organics (high-rate activated sludge) and CO2 (phototrophs)
• Liquid nitrate fertilizers (nitrification)
• Microbial protein (feed/food) and slow-release fertilizer
• High-rate composting and delignification

To treat or recover resources from waste and side streams, or to produce from renewable resources

• From cities, industry, agriculture (manure), aquaculture
• On Earth and in Space (regenerative life support systems)

Prof. Vlaeminck chairs the Water 'fit for use' pipeline within CAPTURE.