Upper organisation
VITO
Type
Research Center
Address
Boeretang 200
2400 Mol
Belgium
Description
VITO partners with industry to increase process efficiency and sustainability, and to evaluate the potential of alternative non-fossil resources in new value chains.
VITO’s industrial innovation targets the design of novel process concepts as well as improvement of existing ones. Core technology domains are:
- Separation: membrane technology, extraction, electroseparation
- Conversion: (electro)chemistry, (bio)catalysis
- Integrated separation and conversion for process intensification.
VITO operates as an independent and neutral partner, at the interface between industry, academia and authorities and provides:
- A multi-disciplinary international team of high level experts
- A wide range of infrastructure & equipment
- Fast & agile solutions
- Access to a broad network (expertise & funding).
European networks:
- Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC – www.biconsortium.eu)
- PPP SPIRE - Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency (www.spire2030.eu)
- BioInnovation Growth mega-Cluster (BIG-Cluster - http://www.bigc-initiative.eu)
- European Algae Biomass Association (www.eaba-association.org)
- European Membrane Society (www.emsoc.eu)
- BIORIZON (www.biorizon.eu)
- IBISBA
National networks (regional for Flanders):
- Catalisti (catalisti.be)
- FlandersBio (flandersbio.be)
Networks in other regions:
- CLIB2021 (Germany)
- IBB (Germany)
- DECHEMA (Germany)
- Dutch Membrane Society (Netherlands)
VITO - Unit Separation and Conversion Technology
VITO - Unit Separation and Conversion Technology
Contact Person
Heleen DE WEVER
E-mail
heleen.dewever@vito.be
Equipment
Equipment for:
- Analytical characterization of biomass and processes
- Biomass pretreatment and fractionation
- Biocatalysis
- (Gas) Fermentation
- Green chemistry
- (Bio)Process intensification
- Downstream processing
- Resource recovery
Technologies available at lab- and/or pilot scale include:
- Low and high pressure membrane filtration
- Organophilic and hydrophilic pervaporation
- Membrane distillation
- (Membrane-based) Capacitive deionization
- (Membrane-based) (reactive) Extraction
- Supercritical extraction
- Fermentation
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Services
VITO offers
- Research from lab to pilot scale: conceptual design, process development and optimization, (integrated) process design, prototyping and testing, support up to full scale implementation
- Techno-economic assessment of concepts and technologies
- State-of-the-art infrastructure including facilities to work in a wide range of chemical conditions, and/or according to GMP regulations, as well as facilities to test your (GMO) organism
- Objective advice, no strings with specific technology provider.
We have a multi-disciplinary team and advanced chemical analysis capabilities.
We guarantee strict non-disclosure.
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Activities
Technology Readiness Levels
Service for Industry and SMEs
Yes