UGent: Sustainable Systems Engineering (STEN)
University of Ghent, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology
General expertise of the research group
The Research Group Sustainable Systems Engineering (STEN) aims at designing and evaluating systems in a sustainability context, relying on engineering principles. Products, processes, supply chains, and production and consumption patterns are studied with:
- A focus on resources, i.e. resource footprint and resource efficiency
- A lifecycle thinking approach, e.g. operationalized through MFA and LCA
- Thermodynamic principles, relying on the second law: exergy and exergetic life cycle analysis
The research is in close collaboration with national and international universities, research centres, policy makers and industry in areas of the following nature: chemical, pharma, primary raw materials, waste-as-a- resource, agro-bio-food …
Specific hydrogen- related expertise & research topics
- LCA of e-fuels
- Resource footprint
- Resource efficiency
Participating in FL/B/EU funded projects with H2 related research
- S2Chemicals (NL)
- CCU Hub
- See website: research.ugent.be
Main relevant publications
- See website: biblio.ugent.be
- Huysman S, Sala S, Mancini L, Ardente F, Freitas de Alvarenga R, De Meester S, et al. Toward a systematized framework for resource efficiency indicators. RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING. 2015;95:68–76.
- Buchmayr A, Verhofstadt E, Van Ootegem L, Sanjuan Delmas D, Thomassen G, Dewulf J. The path to sustainable energy supply systems : proposal of an integrative sustainability assessment framework. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS. 2021;138.
Contact persons
Prof. Jo Dewulf
Tel. +32 9 264 59 50
Tel. +32 9 264 49 96
Jo.Dewulf@ugent.be
University of Ghent | Department of Green Chemistry and Technology