Publications by authors named "B Claessens"

Background: Technological advancements and the COVID-19 crisis have accelerated the adoption of telework, impacting employees' work dynamics. Moreover, an aging workforce emphasises the need for sustainable employability. With reference to the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model, this study explores how telework relates to job demands and job resources and, subsequently, to sustainable employability.

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  • The study investigates the cooperative effects in the adsorption of ethanol and 1-butanol from vapor on the material ZIF-8, revealing that binary mixtures show increased equilibrium capacities compared to individual components.
  • This behavior was predicted using ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) and confirmed through grand canonical Monte Carlo (GC MC) simulations, which highlighted the interactions among adsorbate molecules.
  • Breakthrough experiments demonstrated the predicted cooperative adsorption through specific changes observed during the regeneration of ZIF-8 packed columns, leading to the development of a dynamic breakthrough model that incorporates IAST to explain the results.
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The vapor phase adsorption of butanol from ABE fermentation at the head space of the fermenter is an interesting route for the efficient recovery of biobutanol. The presence of gases such as carbon dioxide that are produced during the fermentation process causes a stripping of valuable compounds from the aqueous into the vapor phase. This work studies the effect of the presence of carbon dioxide on the adsorption of butanol at a molecular level.

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Importance: Bag-mask ventilation (BMV) is a less complex technique than endotracheal intubation (ETI) for airway management during the advanced cardiac life support phase of cardiopulmonary resuscitation of patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest. It has been reported as superior in terms of survival.

Objectives: To assess noninferiority of BMV vs ETI for advanced airway management with regard to survival with favorable neurological function at day 28.

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A vapor-phase adsorptive recovery process is proposed as an alternative way to isolate biobutanol from acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation media, offering several advantages compared to liquid phase separation. The effect of water, which is still present in large quantities in the vapor phase, on the adsorption of the organics could be minimized by using hydrophobic zeolites. Shape-selective all-silica zeolites CHA and LTA were prepared and evaluated with single-component isotherms and breakthrough experiments.

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