Our research group BioWAVE, linked to the faculty of applied engineering at UAntwerp. Aims at the development of biochemical engineering technologies for a sustainable water cycle We focus on industrial wastewater engineering and valorization, to bring innovative technologies to industrial application.
Our interests run along 2 main research lines
- Smart wastewater engineering
- Development of (energy-)efficient microbial technologies: aerated granular sludge (AGS), nutrient cycling (P, N, N2O) and smart control & optimization
- Treatment of complex wastewaters, integrating chemical & biochemical technologies (incl. whole effluent toxicity)
- Microbial community analyses
- Smart wastewater valorization, using both open & closed microbial communities for resource recovery from wastewater
- From dissolved & suspended substances to chemicals (biopolymers, bioplastics…)
- Development and optimization of conventional & novel biochemical engineering technologies