SENSOR
Platform for online monitoring
Vegan Leather is a member of CrossRoads2: Sustainable Energy, which is financed by Interreg V Flanders-Netherlands, the cross-border cooperation programme with financial support from the European Regional Development Fund.
The Problem
A deeper dive into the problem
Until today, most of these wastewaters go on transport for incineration, which is 100% destructive and has a
negative CO2 impact. Detection and measurement of these toxic components is of great importance.
However, real-time detection of low concentration substances remains highly challenging in the
chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Sector-related challenges for online monitoring are associated
with mixed flow compositions, continuous variations in composition, and challenging environmental
conditions (solvents, extreme pH’s, temperatures or pressures). Because of these challenges, a onefits-all solution does not exist and sensing trade-offs are systematically being made.
The main challenge is to develop a technology for quick and simple on-site quantification. The existing methods still suffer from lack of sensitivity and selectivity. SENSOR identified molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) and microfluidics as two key enabling technologies. To realize high-throughput reliable sensing of the target molecules, multiple MIP-containing recognition elements on a single labon-a-chip for parallel sensing is highly desired but also highly challenging. To the best of our knowledge, such a chip is highly innovative and has not been realized for EDCs and PFASs as target molecules.
B4Plastics
Voxdale
Inopsys
Imo-Imomec/UHasselt
VUB uFlow Cell
A deeper dive into the solution
A new and innovative sensor platform
The project will generate a MIP-based sensing methodology that translates into industrial relevant proof of principles (on properties such as detection limit, selectivity and scalability) for detection of various micropollutants, such as EDCs and PFASs. SENSOR delivers a stable and reliable lab-on-a-chip sensing devices that has been validated in realistic environmental conditions
The SPC-ICON project SENSOR (HBC.2023.0851) is supported by Catalisti, the spearhead cluster for chemistry and plastics, and financed by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO).
