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Can 3D printing solve the numbering-up challenge of microfluidic reactors?

The potential of microfluidic reactors, small capillary channels, to intensify mass transfer processes has been proven extensively over the last decades. In essence, liquid-liquid processes can be conducted 10—100 times faster with 1—10% of the energy requirements. These improvements imply that the same extraction process can be conducted with only 1—5% of the solvent used

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Quantification of alloying elements in steel targets

After ranking among the top three teams in the LIBS 2022 regression contest, held at the LIBS 2022 conference in Bari, Italy, the team of the Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) research group of KU Leuven (SIM2 – KU Leuven) was invited to co-author a paper on the best performing regression models to quantify concentrations of

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Future and Emerging Supplementary Cementitious Materials

SIM² – KU Leuven geologist Ruben Snellings, together Prannoy Suraneni (U Miami) and Jørgen Skibsted (U Aarhus) have reviewed the latest advances in research and development of new supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). New SCMs are needed to support the decarbonization of cement and concrete production, and can contribute to the circular economy by upcycling of

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Purification of Ge(IV) in milliflow reactors

SIM2 KU Leuven researchers demonstrated that the dilution of the ionic liquid [A336][HSO4] improves the hydrodynamics and the mass-transfer performance of the purification of Ge(IV) by solvent extraction in milliflow reactors.

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