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May 02, 2019
Environment
Rethinking the energy system
As part of the 11-14 March Water and Climate Festival in Louvain-la-Neuve, Science Today is highlighting UCLouvain ecological transition research and researchers. Gauthier Limpens, a PhD student at the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL), wants to offer decision-makers the best method of...
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April 25, 2019
Environment
Drug traces in water
Traces of drugs are in water worldwide. While the impact of such pollution on the environment and human health is still largely unknown, researchers of the Louvain4Water at UCLouvain are working on a new way to eliminate it from our wastewater
We all take medicine. Some products, such as...
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April 18, 2019
Environment
When soils filter wastewater
In Wallonia, one-tenth of domestic waste water doesn’t pass through a waste water treatment plant. Is it pollution? Not necessarily, because soils can filter and purify wastewater naturally under certain conditions.
Wherever people live, treating their domestic waste water must be...
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April 11, 2019
Environment
Energy transition is rooted in the local
As part of the 11-14 March Water and Climate Festival in Louvain-la-Neuve, Science Today is highlighting UCLouvain ecological transition research and researchers. Julie Hermesse, doctor in anthropology and member of the UCLouvain Laboratory for Prospective Anthropology (LAAP) and member of...
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April 04, 2019
Environment
Solar energy for a circular economy
The SUNRISE project, in which UCLouvain participates, just received €1 million from the European Union. With this sum, for one year, the consortium will establish a road map and build a community around a sustainable alternative project to produce fuels and basic chemicals....
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