VITO - Unit Separation and Conversion Technology
VITO - Unit Separation and Conversion Technology

Belgium: Flemish Region

Overview

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)
… 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

. 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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Sectors
Chemicals - Consumer goods/products - Environment - Agro-food - Healthcare
Technology
Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - Surface engineering and coatings - Polymers, bioplastics - High value food & feed additives - Enzymes - Biobased chemicals - Biofuels
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