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🎤✨We are proud to announce that one of the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project PhD students - Sorosh Samiei from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) - is going to the final of the competition "Ma thèse en 180 secondes", organized by l'Alliance Sorbonne Université . 🕓 When? 19/03/2026 at 18:00 🌍 Where? l'Auditorium de Sorbonne Université (campus Pierre et Marie Curie) or online via YouTube 👉 Subscribe to view and vote via the following link: https://lnkd.in/dTN7d

Yesterday, we had a first meeting with our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project Advisory Board members at Ghent University . The meeting was closed with a visit to the laboratory and pilot facilities of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . OBIWAN aims at converting organic waste streams into advanced chemicals and sustainable aviation fuels and will therefore generate technology to mitigate climate change, not only by avoiding greenhouse gas emissions but also by tuning such

⚡ Harnessing the Force: Innovative Hydrogen Production within OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project The OBIWAN consortium welcomes you to their workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project. The workshop will be followed by an official kick-off event with the inauguration of the ETFB set-up at Laboratory for Chemical Technology. 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Team

Our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project is all about cross-border cooperation! Last week, our Walloon partner Certech visited the anaerobic digestion platform of GIS Solimétha, jointly associated with our French partners Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) and UniLaSalle . Following the visit, researchers presented the progress of their respective research activities within OBIWAN. UTC shared recent advances in anaerobic digestion process modelling, while Certech pre

📢 Another OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project related article is available! Partners from Ghent University under the lead of prof. Kevin Van Geem ( Laboratory for Chemical Technology ) have made a publication on data-driven multiphase flow reactor modeling. This review categorizes several state-of-the approaches with particular emphasis on cross-scale learning for developing data models, as well as on emerging architectures. Challenges in data availability, interpretability,

♻️ From organic waste to valuable chemical resources. The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project converts biogas from organic waste streams into chemical building blocks, enabling circular chemical value chains. Our associated partner Catalisti posted an article about the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project on their website. 👉 Want to know more? Read the full article here . #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability

From waste to chemical building blocks and (aviation) fuels. Interested to know more about OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project 's use of biogas for a sustainable future? Read the recent article from VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship to know more! You can access the full article here . The project is funded by Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen for which partner Ghent University has also received cofinancing from Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen and VLAIO - Flanders

📢 A first scientific article on the work performed within the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project is out! Partners from Ghent University under the lead of prof. Joris Thybaut ( Laboratory for Chemical Technology ) have made a publication on the kinetic analysis of methane pyrolysis over carbon catalysts. The kinetic parameters of an existing surface reaction model were optimized to improve predictions for methane pyrolysis over so-called low-order catalysts, resulting in the

The OBIWAN project has been presented by Sorosh Samiei (UTC) with a poster presentation at the "Nuits de la recherche de l'UTC" in Compiègne on 8 December 2025. See the poster in our Presentations section.

Two weeks ago, our sister project COMPOVERT organized their launch event around biobased functional composites in Gembloux (Belgium). The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project was represented by our Certech partner Julien Estager.

The OBIWAN project has been presented by Sorosh Samiei (UTC) with a poster presentation at the Technological Systems, Sustainability and Safety (TS3) Symposium in Paris (15-16 October 2025). See the poster in our Presentations section.

A great introduction to our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project can be found in the interview with Xiaojun Liu for the magazine "Interactions UTC". To read the full article: https://lnkd.in/esH7TYux #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability

Last week, our sister project ValCelMat organized their launch event in Béthune (France). The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project was represented by our UTC partner Xiaojun Liu . #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability Program ValCelMat Launch Event - June 12 2025, IUT Béthune - France 8:30 Welcome coffee 9:00 Introduction Interreg Fr-Wl-Vl (Joël David) Region Hauts-de-France (VP Innovation) Artois University (Pierre Marguis) Project coordinator - summary project (Patrick Mar

One more week before we are having our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project first series of guest lectures, in which our partners Julien Estager (Certech) and Andrei Khodakov (CNRS) will familliarize you with their research domain and specific activities within the OBIWAN project. Registrations are still open! 📅 Date & Time: 1 April 2025, 13:00 - 15:00 💻 Organized via Microsoft Teams Registration link: https://lnkd.in/e3ryntdY #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability

The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project is organizing a series of guest lectures to familiarize both researchers from our project consortium and external interested parties with the research domains and specific activities of particular OBIWAN partners. In the first guest lecture series, Julien Estager (Certech) will provide an introduction to biogas purification techniques and Andrei Khodakov (CNRS) will introduce you to CO 2 transformation with selected examples of hydrogen

This week, we had our first partner meeting for the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project in Ghent. We were happy to meet with all partners from Ghent University , Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) , Certech and CNRS . OBIWAN aims at converting organic waste streams into advanced chemicals and sustainable aviation fuels. After an initial anaerobic digestion for biogas production, a mixture of CH 4 and CO 2 , the further chemical conversion will harness the CO 2 in