About Amine
Amine was born in Casablanca, the financial metropole of Morocco. After completing a master's in chemical engineering at Hasselt University, he joined Analytical and circular chemistry in March 2019. He currently works as a Ph.D student within the BASTA project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ir. Dries Vandamme. After working hours you can find Amine in the gym, playing football or just enjoying free time. He also mastered the art of drinking tea and infusions, which makes him very calm on a daily basis.
The production and characterization of biochar-based slow-release fertilizers
Ing. Amine Lataf focuses his research on the scaling up of the pyrolysis process for sustainable and cost-effective biochar production, aiming its use within agricultural processes. He focuses mainly on conventional and microwave-assisted pyrolysis of various biomass streams with a low economic value (spent coffee grounds, spent peat substrate, wood shavings, manure, …). He currently works as a PhD student within a BASTA project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ir. Dries Vandamme. As a Master student he modelled the residence time of a custom-made pilot-scale rotary kiln reactor under the supervision of Dr. Ing. Tom Haeldermans and Dr. Ing. Kenny Vanreppelen, which lead to the publication “Numerical prediction of the mean residence time of solid materials in a pilot-scale rotary kiln”.
