Fundamental science:
FWO Projects – Flemish funding
FWO Project
on Reactive gas injection in liquid metals
2010-2013, KU Leuven budget: 340 k€
FWO Project
on REEs and ionic liquids
2013-2016, KU Leuven budget: 300k €
FWO Project
on slag/calcined clays
2015-2019, KU Leuven budget: 300 k€
FWO Project
on advanced magnetic separation
2016-2019
Strategic basic research:
IWT – Flemish Funding
FWO Project
Closing the Circle by hot-stage design of Enhanced Landfill Mining Plasmastone for low carbon cement and insulating building materials
2014-2016, KU Leuven budget: 450k €
IWT SIM MARES SUPERMEX
Sustainable transformation of new and landfilled solid industrial residues into metals and inorganic polymers using a SUPERMetalEXtractor
IWT MIP ICON MIVAMIL
2015-2017; KU Leuven budget: 300k €
Competitive research:
IWT – Flemish Funding
IWT O&O
Influence of ferroalloy impurities on the inclusion characteristics in liquid steel
ArcelorMittal Gent, 2008-2011, KU Leuven budget 673k€
IWT O&O VALORAS
Valorisation of ArcelorMittal’s Converter Slag into CRH Building Materials
ArcelorMittal, CRH, 2015-2017, KU Leuven budget: 2M€
IWT O&O COZIRAS
Combined recovery of metal and residual slag valorisation from Metallo-Chimique’s recycling process
MetalloChimique, 2012-15, KU Leuven budget: 1107k€
IWT O&O
Breakthrough Routes in Stainless Steel Metallurgy and Integrated Slag Valorisation
Aperam, 2009-2012, KU Leuven budget: 914k €
IWT O&O
Closing the Circle & Enhanced Landfill Mining as part of the Transition to Sustainable Materials Management
Group Machiels, 2011-2014, KU Leuven budget: 829k€
IWT O&O
Concurrent optimisation of EAF and transfer ladle refractory lining and slag practice
ArcelorMittal Stainless, 2003-2005, KU Leuven budget: 618k€
IWT O&O
Concurrent optimisation of process metallurgy and slag handling with respect to stainless steel slag valorisation
