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🌍 Innovating Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow! 💥The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project was represented by Iliyas Melnikov at the RRB22 Conference in Leuven. He participated with both a poster presentation, giving an overview of the whole project, and an oral presentation, focussing on his own achievements so far. Participation to the RRB Renewable Resources & Biorefineries conference was a joint effort of the sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project, ValCelMat and COMPOVERT t

🌍 Innovating Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow! 💥 The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project, ValCelMat and COMPOVERT are featured in the latest RRB Renewable Resources & Biorefineries newsletter! 👉 Link to the newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eTGrD-FQ From Monday 1 June until Wednesday 3 June, the 22nd edition of the International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries will take place in Leuven, Belgium, organized by Ghent Un

🎉 Our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project has been highlighted in the 2025 Annual Report of VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship! OBIWAN is one of the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen projects for which partner Ghent University received cofinancing from VLAIO as well as from Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen. 💫 Link to the annual report (see p. 21): Click here #InterregFWVL #hydrogen #biogas #sustainability

💥 Last week, we had our first workshop for the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project in Ghent, followed by the official inauguration of the ETFB set-up at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology (Ghent University). 👏 Thanks to all our speakers - Joris Thybaut (OBIWAN coordinator), Julien Estager (COMPOVERT), Sofie Verschraegen (ValCelMat), Ben De Waele (Fluxys), Isabel Francois (WaterstofNet) and Simon De Langhe (Ghent University) - for their contributions! 💫 Congratulations to Kevi

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production One more week to go for our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project! 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 16:00 (CET) 🌍 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Program: 14:00 Introduction OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project by Joris Thybaut 14:15 Introduction COMPOVERT by Julien Estager 14:30 Introduction ValCelMat by Sofie

💥 Interested to know more about the combination of chemical engineering and electricity utilization? How can this combination help establishing true circularity? Do we need chemical conversion anyway? During the guest lecture ‘Catalytic Reaction and Reactor Engineering for Bio-Gas Valorization’, Joris Thybaut will delve deeper into how chemical reactor electrification brings low-emission, fully renewable-based chemicals and fuels production within reach. 🎤 The Interreg...

💥 Would you like to learn more about the challenges of cellulose valorization? Or about the history of plastic/paper cups? With the conference entitled “Challenges and Context of Cellulose Valorization – Functionalization to Produce High-Performance Materials”, Alexis Spalletta will explore the alternatives currently being developed through the ValCelMat project. 🎤 The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPO

💥 Interested to know more about how additive manufacturing is reshaping current research avenues? How it can optimize complex tooling design or enable the production of metallic structured reactors with unmatched geometries? And what are the future challenges for composite materials printing? 🎤 During the joint guest lecture series of the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPOVERT , Maxence Renaux, Ph.D will

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production 💥 We are two weeks away from our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project 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 the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Progra

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production 💥We are one month away from our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project 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 the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Prog

🎤 The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPOVERT are joining forces to organize a joint series of guest lectures! The guest lectures are aimed to familiarize both researchers from our project consortia and external interested parties with the research domains and specific activities of these three projects and their partners. 📅 When? Tuesday 28/04/2026, 09:30 - 12:00 (CET) 🌍 Where? Online via Microsoft

📢Last week, our electrothermal fluidized-bed (ETFB) reactor set-up arrived at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology ! This set-up will be used in the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project for the conversion of biomethane into hydrogen and solid carbon. Installation of the ETFB set-up (which was manufactured by Vinci Technologies ) is currently ongoing and its official inauguration is scheduled for April 30. 🚩 Interested to attend the official inauguration of the ETFB set-up? Re

📢 Our first series of guest lectures has now been transformed into a webinar and published on our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project website! 👉 See the video in our Webinar section Interested to know more about the purification of biogas, hydrogenation pathways of CO 2 or specifically the OBIWAN project? Then have a look at the webinar in which Joris Thybaut ( Ghent University , OBIWAN coordinator), Julien Estager ( Certech ) and Andrei Khodakov ( CNRS ) will guide you

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