Kevin M. Van Geem

Research interests

Publications

• Challenges and opportunities of light olefin production via thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of end-of-life polyolefins: Towards full recyclability

  Progress in Energy and Combustion Science · 2023 · 10.1016/j.pecs.2022.101046

• How much can chemical recycling contribute to plastic waste recycling in Europe? An assessment using material flow analysis modeling

  Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2023 · 10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.106916

• Assessing the feasibility of chemical recycling via steam cracking of untreated plastic waste pyrolysis oils: Feedstock impurities, product yields and coke formation

  Waste Management · 2022 · 10.1016/j.wasman.2022.01.033

• Towards full recyclability of end-of-life tires: Challenges and opportunities

  Journal of Cleaner Production · 2022 · 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134036

• Review on the pyrolysis products and thermal decomposition mechanisms of polyurethanes

  Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis · 2022 · 10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105723

• Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

  Engineering · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.03.019

• The chemistry of chemical recycling of solid plastic waste via pyrolysis and gasification: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions

  Progress in Energy and Combustion Science · 2021 · 10.1016/j.pecs.2020.100901

• Opportunities and challenges for the application of post-consumer plastic waste pyrolysis oils as steam cracker feedstocks: To decontaminate or not to decontaminate?

  Waste Management · 2021 · 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.11.009

• A comprehensive experimental investigation of plastic waste pyrolysis oil quality and its dependence on the plastic waste composition

  Fuel Processing Technology · 2021 · 10.1016/j.fuproc.2021.107090

• Techno-economic assessment of mechanical recycling of challenging post-consumer plastic packaging waste

  Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2021 · 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105607

• Maximizing light olefins and aromatics as high value base chemicals via single step catalytic conversion of plastic waste

  Chemical Engineering Journal · 2021 · 10.1016/j.cej.2021.132087

• Challenges and opportunities of solvent-based additive extraction methods for plastic recycling

  Waste Management · 2020 · 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.01.003

• Progress in Reaction Mechanisms and Reactor Technologies for Thermochemical Recycling of Poly(methyl methacrylate)

  Polymers · 2020 · 10.3390/polym12081667

• Detailed Analysis of the Composition of Selected Plastic Packaging Waste Products and Its Implications for Mechanical and Thermochemical Recycling

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 10.1021/acs.est.0c03371

• Towards closed-loop recycling of multilayer and coloured PET plastic waste by alkaline hydrolysis

  Green Chemistry · 2020 · 10.1039/d0gc00894j

• Making chemicals with electricity

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aax5179

• New Trends in Olefin Production

  Engineering · 2017 · 10.1016/j.eng.2017.02.006

• Mechanical and chemical recycling of solid plastic waste

  Waste Management · 2017 · 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.07.044

• Characterization and Comparison of Fast Pyrolysis Bio-oils from Pinewood, Rapeseed Cake, and Wheat Straw Using 13C NMR and Comprehensive GC × GC

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2016 · 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01329

• Automatic Mechanism and Kinetic Model Generation for Gas‐ and Solution‐Phase Processes: A Perspective on Best Practices, Recent Advances, and Future Challenges

  International Journal of Chemical Kinetics · 2015 · 10.1002/kin.20902

• Laminar burning velocity of gasoline and the gasoline surrogate components iso-octane, n-heptane and toluene

  Fuel · 2013 · 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.05.049

• Genesys: Kinetic model construction using chemo-informatics

  Chemical Engineering Journal · 2012 · 10.1016/j.cej.2012.07.014

• Quantitative analysis of crude and stabilized bio-oils by comprehensive two-dimensional gas-chromatography

  Journal of Chromatography A · 2012 · 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.07.035

• Comprehensive reaction mechanism for n-butanol pyrolysis and combustion

  Combustion and Flame · 2010 · 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.06.002

• Automatic reaction network generation using RMG for steam cracking of n‐hexane

  AIChE Journal · 2005 · 10.1002/aic.10655

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