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Kristof Demeestere

Kristof Demeestere

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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
10162
World Ranking
13466
National Ranking
167

Overview

Kristof Demeestere is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a strong research focus in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including Plant Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The primary research topics covered by Kristof Demeestere include:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Odor and Emission Control Technologies
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Demeestere has published extensively in well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Water Research
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Demeestere highlight various dimensions of environmental chemical engineering and water treatment technologies. These include:

  • Comparison and performance assessment of ozone-based AOPs in view of trace organic contaminants abatement in water and wastewater: A review, 2021, Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • Enhanced removal of hydrophobic volatile organic compounds in biofilters and biotrickling filters: A review on the use of surfactants and the addition of hydrophilic compounds, 2021, Chemosphere
  • Oxygen vacancy modification of commercial ZnO by hydrogen reduction for the removal of thiabendazole: Characterization and kinetic study, 2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Degradation of micropollutants in secondary wastewater effluent using nonthermal plasma-based AOPs: The roles of free radicals and molecular oxidants, 2023, Water Research
  • Effect of oxygen vacancy modification of ZnO on photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange: A kinetic study, 2023, Catalysis Today

Kristof Demeestere has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Herman Van Langenhove
  • Stijn Van Hulle
  • Christophe Walgraeve
  • Tina Kyndt
  • Changtao Chen

Their research predominantly addresses challenges related to water treatment methods, advanced oxidation processes, and photocatalytic degradation techniques, focusing on the removal of organic contaminants and micropollutants. Their multidisciplinary work contributes to understanding environmental impacts, emission control, and disinfection technologies.

Best Publications

  • Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: an emerging class of environmental micropollutants

    Xander Van Doorslaer;Jo Dewulf;Herman Van Langenhove;Kristof Demeestere

  • Sample preparation for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in air and water matrices.

    Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Bavo De Witte;Herman Van Langenhove

  • Occurrence patterns of pharmaceutical residues in wastewater, surface water and groundwater of Nairobi and Kisumu city, Kenya

    K.O. K'oreje;L. Vergeynst;D. Ombaka;P. De Wispelaere

  • Oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in atmospheric particulate matter: Molecular characterization and occurrence

    Christophe Walgraeve;Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Ralf Zimmermann

  • Ozonation and advanced oxidation by the peroxone process of ciprofloxacin in water

    Bavo De Witte;Jo Dewulf;Kristof Demeestere;Herman Van Langenhove

  • Heterogeneous Photocatalysis as an Advanced Oxidation Process for the Abatement of Chlorinated, Monocyclic Aromatic and Sulfurous Volatile Organic Compounds in Air: State of the Art

    Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Herman Van Langenhove

  • UV-A and UV-C induced photolytic and photocatalytic degradation of aqueous ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin: Reaction kinetics and role of adsorption

    Xander Van Doorslaer;Kristof Demeestere;Philippe M. Heynderickx;Herman Van Langenhove

  • Ozonation of ciprofloxacin in water: HRMS identification of reaction products and pathways.

    Bavo DeWitte;Jo Dewulf;Kristof Demeestere;Vincent Van De Vyvere

  • Titanium dioxide coated cementitious materials for air purifying purposes: Preparation, characterization and toluene removal potential

    Anibal Maury Ramirez;Kristof Demeestere;Nele De Belie;Tapio Mäntylä

  • The present status of landfill leachate treatment and its development trend from a technological point of view

    Junling Gao;Junling Gao;Violet Oloibiri;Michael Chys;Wim Audenaert

  • TiO2 mediated heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of moxifloxacin: Operational variables and scavenger study

    Xander Van Doorslaer;Philippe M. Heynderickx;Kristof Demeestere;Kevin Debevere

  • Heterogeneous photocatalytic removal of toluene from air on building materials enriched with TiO2

    Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Bavo De Witte;Anne Beeldens

  • From multi-residue screening to target analysis of pharmaceuticals in water: development of a new approach based on magnetic sector mass spectrometry and application in the Nairobi River basin, Kenya.

    Kenneth Otieno K'oreje;Kristof Demeestere;Patrick De Wispelaere;Leendert Vergeynst

  • Visible light mediated photocatalytic degradation of gaseous trichloroethylene and dimethyl sulfide on modified titanium dioxide

    Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Teruhisa Ohno;Pepe Herrera Salgado

  • Levofloxacin ozonation in water: rate determining process parameters and reaction pathway elucidation.

    Bavo De Witte;Herman Van Langenhove;Karen Hemelsoet;Kristof Demeestere

  • Occurrence and treatment of contaminants of emerging concern in the African aquatic environment: Literature review and a look ahead

    Kenneth Otieno K'oreje;Maurice Okoth;Herman Van Langenhove;Kristof Demeestere

  • Multi-residue analysis of pharmaceuticals in wastewater by liquid chromatography-magnetic sector mass spectrometry: method quality assessment and application in a Belgian case study.

    Leendert Vergeynst;Ashley Haeck;Patrick De Wispelaere;Herman Van Langenhove

  • Elucidating the photocatalytic degradation pathway of acetaldehyde: An FTIR in situ study under atmospheric conditions

    Birger Hauchecorne;Dieter Terrens;Dieter Terrens;Sammy Verbruggen;Sammy Verbruggen;Johan A. Martens

  • Comparison and performance assessment of ozone-based AOPs in view of trace organic contaminants abatement in water and wastewater: A review

    Ze Liu;Ze Liu;Kristof Demeestere;Stijn Van Hulle

  • Ciprofloxacin ozonation in hospital wastewater treatment plant effluent: effect of pH and H2O2.

    Bavo De Witte;Herman Van Langenhove;Kristof Demeestere;Karen Saerens

  • Trends in liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry for multi-residue analysis of organic micropollutants in aquatic environments

    Vergeynst Leendert;Herman Van Langenhove;Kristof Demeestere

  • Acute changes in pulse pressure in relation to constituents of particulate air pollution in elderly persons

    Lotte Jacobs;Anna Buczynska;Christophe Walgraeve;Andy Delcloo

  • Titanium dioxide mediated heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of gaseous dimethyl sulfide: Parameter study and reaction pathways

    Kristof Demeestere;Jo Dewulf;Bavo De Witte;Herman Van Langenhove

Frequent Co-Authors

Herman Van Langenhove
Herman Van Langenhove Ghent University
Stijn Van Hulle
Stijn Van Hulle Ghent University
Jo Dewulf
Jo Dewulf Ghent University
Monica Höfte
Monica Höfte Ghent University
Ingmar Nopens
Ingmar Nopens Ghent University
Godelieve Gheysen
Godelieve Gheysen Ghent University
Nele De Belie
Nele De Belie Ghent University
Matthias Wessling
Matthias Wessling RWTH Aachen University
Francis Verpoort
Francis Verpoort Wuhan University of Technology
Colin R. Janssen
Colin R. Janssen Ghent University

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