Lodewyckx Peter

Prof. Lodewyckx Peter


Personal data:


Name                                                            : LODEWYCKX
Christian name                                             : Peter
Address:                                                       
Stijn Streuvelslaan, 27

B-3010    Kessel-Lo
BELGIUM
Tel: +32-16-258549 or +32-496-878117

e-mail: Peter.Lodewyckx@rma.ac.be

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Lodewyckx


Date & place of birth                                   
September 3, 1962-Deurne (Antwerpen)


Marital status                                            
Married
2 children °1991 / °1993

Current position 

Royal Military Academy - Military Professor                                       

Education

Period

Institute

Major

Degree

1996-1998

U.I.A.

Chemistry

PhD Science - Chemistry

1990-1992

K.U.L.

Occupational Safety

MSc Engineering

1989-1991

K.U.L.

Chemistry

MSc Engineering

1980-1985

K.M.S.

Ballistics

MSc Engineering

U.I.A.:University Antwerp/K.U.L.:Catholic University Leuven /K.M.S.:RoyalMilitaryAcademy(Brussels)

 

Languages

 

Understanding

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Dutch

Native speaker

Native speaker

Native speaker

Native speaker

French

Very good

Very good

Very good

Very good

English

Very good

Very good

Very good

Very good

German

Very good

Very good

Good

Sufficient

Spanish

Good

Good

Sufficient

Sufficient

Russian

Elementary

Elementary

Elementary

Elementary

 

Scientific career

Main research interests

  • Gas phase processes (especially adsorption)
  • Activated carbon – characterisation and applications
  • Water adsorption and water-vapour co-adsorption
  • CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) protection

National and international projects (last 5 years)

  • EU-FP7
    2008-2012 FRESP: Advanced first response respiratory protection (coordinator)

    2014-2017 GIFT: Generic integrated forensic CBRN toolbox
  • EDA-JIP CBRN
    2013-2015 MaSC: Modeling and Simulation for CBRN Defence Architectures
  • FWO
    2012-2015 G.0190.12N: Effect of tunable hydrogels on concrete microstructure, moisture properties, sealing and self-healing of cracks (with UGent)
  • Kazakh Government Grant 
  • 2015-2017 Development of modified carbon materials for sorption of toxic gases (as foreign partner of the Institute of Combustion Problems – Almaty)
  • RHID (Belgian Defence)
    2010-2012 LAND07: Modeling of multi-component breakthrough behavior of activated carbon filters

    2013-2015 CBRN01: Modeling of multi-inorganic component breakthrough behaviour of activated carbon filters
    2014-2019 SIC08: Detection and identification of chemical warfare and hazmat in the atmosphere using thermal hyperspectral and spectropolarimetric imaging
    2017-2019 MSP17/01 Novel adsorbents for an improves CBRN protection: a hoax or not?

Other scientific occupations 

  • Scientific Collaborator Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (2000-).
  • Belgian Voting Member in NATO HFM-273 panel (Long Term Scientific Study on Chemical, Biological and Radiological protection).
  • Member of the scientific committee of several NATO-Workshops and international conferences.
  • Member Editorial Board Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal.
  • Auditor ISO 17025 – Quality in laboratories for BELAC (BEL), COFRAC (FRA), SA (SLO).
  • Member of visitation committees for NVAO (Accreditation of Higher Education)
  • External Examiner of the European Joint Master in Strategic Border Management organised by EU (FRONTEX).
  • ScientificcollaboratorUniversityofAntwerp(1999-8).
  • Member of several working groups CEN-TC79, NATO, FINABEL, WEU and EDA (1989-2009).

Prizes 

Prize “Stas” of the RoyalBelgianAcademyof Sciences, Literature and Arts (Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique) for the highest distinction obtained for the PhD thesis.

 

Publications

Five chapters in books, around 40 publications in international (A1) journals and more than 100 presentations and posters (including several invited lectures) in international symposia and workshops. H-index (Scopus July 2017): 13


 BOOKS

  1. Lodewyckx, P., Adsorption of volatile organic vapours. In: Thomas E. Rufford, Denisa Hulicova-Jurcakova, John Zhu, editors. Green carbon materials: Advances and Applications, Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2014 [Chapter author]
  2. Lodewyckx, P., Adsorption on activated carbons: one underlying mechanism. In JP. Mota and S. Lyubchik, editors. NATO Science through Security Series: C –Environmental Security: Recent advances in Adsorption Processes for Environmental Protection and Security, p. 19-28, Springer, 2008
  3. Lodewyckx, P., Modelling gas phase adsorption in industrial and military applications. In J.M. Loureiro and M.T. Kartel, editors. NATO Science through Security Series: C – Environmental Security: Combined and Hybrid Adsorbents, Springer, 2006
  4. Lodewyckx, P., Adsorption of chemical warfare agents. In: Bandosz T.J., editor. Interface Science and Technology (A. Hubbard, Ed.): Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation, Elsevier, 2006 [Chapter author]
  5. Blacher, S., Alié, C., Gommes, C., Lodewyckx, P., Pirard, R., and Pirard, J.-P., Characterisation of silica low-density xerogels in presence of additives by image analysis and nitrogen adsorption-desorption. In: Characterizations of Porous Solids VI, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis 144, Rodriguez-Reinoso, F., McEnaney, B., Rouquerol, J., and Unger, K. (eds), Elsevier Science B.V., 323-330 (2002)

REFEREED JOURNALS

  1. 1. Qiao, M., Ferrero, G.A., Velasco, L.F., Hor, W.V., Yang, Y., Luo, H., Lodewyckx, P. Fuertes, A.B. Sevilla, M., Titirici, M., Boosting the Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalytic Performance of Non-Precious Metal Nanocarbons via Triple Boundary Engineering using Protic Ionic Liquids, SUBMITTED [Impact factor = 21.87]
  2. Boutillara, Y., Velasco, L.F., Lodewyckx, P., De Weireld, G., Textural and functional modifications of activated carbons subjected to severe storing conditions, Adsorption ACCEPTED [Impact factor = 2.26]
  3. Tazibet, S., Velasco, L.F., Lodewyckx, P., Abou M’Hamed, D., Boucheffa, Y.,  Systematic study of the role played by ZnCl2 during the carbonization of a chemically activated carbon by TG-MS and DSC, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, (2018) ACCEPTED [Impact factor = 1.74]
  4. Tazibet, S., Velasco, L.F., Lodewyckx, P., Abou M’Hamed, D., Boucheffa, Y., Study of the carbonization temperature for a chemically activated carbon: influence on the textural and structural characteristics and surface functionalities, Journal of Porous Materials, 25(2), 329-340 (2018) [Impact factor = 1.385]
  5. Velasco, L.F., Berezovska, I., Boutillara, Y., Lodewyckx, P., The use of organic  vapour preadsorption to understand water adsorption on activated carbons, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 241, 21-27 (2017) [Impact factor = 3.209]
  6. Velasco, L.F., Snoeck, D., Mignon, A., Misseeuw, L., Ania, C.O., Van Vlierberghe S., Dubruel, P., de Belie, N., Lodewyckx, P., Role of the surface chemistry of the adsorbent on the initialization step of the water sorption process, Carbon, 106, 284-288 (2016) [Impact factor = 6.160]
  7. Brudey, T., Largitte, L., Jean-Marius C., Tant, T., Dumesnil, P.C., Lodewyckx, P., Adsorption of lead by chemically activated carbons from three lignocellulosic precursors, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 120, 450-463 (2016) [Impact factor = 3.564]
  8.  Tazibet, S., Boucheffa, Y., Lodewyckx, P., Velasco, L.F., Boutillara, Y., Evidence for the effect of the cooling down step on activated carbon adsorption properties, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 221, 67-75 (2016) [Impact factor = 3.209]
  9. Velasco, L.F., Guillet-Nicolas, R., Dobos, G., Thommes, M., Lodewyckx, P., Towards a better understanding of water adsorption hysteresis in activated carbons by scanning isotherms, Carbon, 96, 753-758 (2016) [Impact factor = 6.160]
  10. Largitte, L., Brudey, T., Tant, T., Dumesnil, P.C., Lodewyckx, P., Comparison of the adsorption of lead by activated carbons from three lignocellulosic precursors, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 219, 265-275 (2016) [Impact factor = 3.209]
  11. Snoeck, D., Velasco, L.F., Mignon, A., Van Vlierberghe, S., Dubruel, P., Lodewyckx, P., De Belie, N., The effects of superabsorbent polymers on the microstructure of cementitious materials studied by means of sorption experiments, Cement and Concrete Research, 77, 26-35 (2015) [Impact factor = 3.848]
  12. Berezovska, I., Fettaka, H., Salmon T., Toye, D., Lodewyckx, P., Redistribution of a mixture of organic vapours inside an activated carbon filter, Chemical Engineering Journal, 280, 677-681 (2015) [Impact factor = 4.321]
  13. Largitte, L., Lodewyckx, P., Modeling the influence of the operating conditions upon the sorption rate and the yield in the adsorption of lead(II), Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 202, 147-154 (2015) [Impact factor = 3.209]
  14. Snoeck, D., Velasco, L.F., Mignon, A., Van Vlierberghe, S., Dubruel, P., Lodewyckx, P., De Belie, N., The influence of different drying techniques on the water sorption properties of cement-based materials, Cement and Concrete Research 64, 54-62 (2014) [Impact factor = 3.848]
  15. Tazibet, S., Boucheffa, Y., Lodewyckx, P., The influence of the cooling down step in the heat treatment on the stability of activated carbons hydrophobicity, Adsorption 20(4), 545-553 (2014) [Impact factor = 2.074]
  16. Largitte, L., Gervelas, S., Tant, T., Dumesnil, P.C., Hightower, A., Yasami, R., Bercion, Y., Lodewyckx, P., Removal of lead from aqueous solutions by adsorption with surface precipitation, Adsorption, 20, 689-700 (2014) [Impact factor = 2.074]
  17. Largitte, L., Lodewyckx, P., Studying different methods to determine thermo-kinetic constants in the adsorption of Pb2+ on an activated carbon from Bois carré seeds, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2(2), 788-795 (2014)
  18. Lodewyckx, P., Raymundo-Piñero, E., Vaclavikova M., Berezovska, I., Thommes, M., Béguin, F., Dobos, G., Suggested improvements in the parameters used for describing the low relative pressure region of the water vapour isotherms of activated carbons, Carbon 60, 556-558 (2013) [Impact factor = 6.160]
  19. Largitte, L., Lodewyckx, P., Kinetics and thermodynamics of the adsorption of lead(II) on a activated carbon from coconut shells, Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal, 15(4), 283-292 (2013)
  20.  Tazibet, S., Boucheffa, Y., Lodewyckx, P., Heat treatment effect on the textural, hydrophobic and adsorptive properties of activated carbons obtained from olive waste, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 170, 293-298 (2013) [Impact factor = 3.209]
  21. Largitte, L., Gervelas, S., Tant, T., Couespel Dumesnil, P., Lodewyckx, P., Influenc of the surface properties of the Bois Carré seeds activated carbon on the removal of lead from aqueous solutions, Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal, 14(3), 201- 210 (2012)
  22. Lodewyckx, P., Suy, O., Steyaert, S., Accreditatie van de opleidingen KMS: een feit!Cahiers politiestudies, 22, 41-51 (2012)
  23. Lodewyckx, P., The effect of water uptake in ultramicropores on the adsorption of water vapour in activated carbon, Carbon, 48, 2549-2553 (2010) [Impact factor = 6.160]
  24. Laszlo, K., Czakkel, O., Dobos, G., Lodewyckx, P., Rochas, C., Geissler, E., Water   vapour adsorption in highly porous carbons as seen by small and wide angle x-ray scattering, Carbon, 48, 1038-1048 (2010) [Impact factor = 6.160]