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📢 Following our joint Interreg France–Wallonie–Vlaanderen workshop, bringing together the sister projects VALCELMAT, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN, we’re pleased to share the presentations from our inspiring day in Tourcoing! 🌱🌍♻️ From cellulose modification and plant-fibre composites to circular biorefineries and industrial-scale organics recovery, our speakers explored a wide range of innovations and opportunities for connecting value chains in a circular and bio-based economy. �

🚀 Presentation of vADer model at SFGP 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand. 🔬The team from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) - UniLaSalle represented the OBIWAN project at the SFGP 2026 conference. Sorosh Samiei presented a poster on the vADer model which is designed to derive the full stoichiometry of anaerobic digestion (from process control to monitoring and the rigour of mass balances). Its key advantage is that it uses inputs characterised at a level close to that of th

To mark this weekend's Science Festival (Fête de la Science, 8-11 October 2026) at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, our UTC partners Xiaojun Liu, Thierry Ribeiro and Sorosh Samiei had the pleasure of hosting two talks entitled ‘From peelings to biogas: the magic of anaerobic digestion’. In front of an audience of around twenty participants, they traced the evolution of the anaerobic digestion sector and shared an overview of their research work in the framework of

📰 A novel Versatile reaction scheme for modeling Anaerobic Digestion with Elemental balance Rigor (vADEr) The team from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) - UniLaSalle represented the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project during IWA AD19 - Valencia 2026. During this conference, organized by the International Water Association in Valencia (Spain), Sorosh Samiei presented a poster on the results from his first year of intense doctoral work. It was a great pleasure to exchange