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Innovative Underground Skimming Technology for Efficient LNAPL Recovery: A Case Study from Northern France
Location: Palais des Congrès (Liège) - 17/06/2025, 14:50 - 17/06/2025, 15:20 (Europe/Berlin) (30 minutes)
Innovative Underground Skimming Technology for Efficient LNAPL Recovery: A Case Study from Northern France
Aurélien Vandekerckhove
Business Development & Engineering Manager at Haemers Technologies SA
Aurélien Vandekerckhove
Business Development & Engineering Manager at Haemers Technologies SA

Efficient LNAPL Recovery Using Underground Skimming Technology   

Explore an innovative approach to recovering Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (LNAPL) from groundwater, overcoming the challenges of complex soil and fluctuating water conditions. 

By combining skimming with vacuum pumping, it has successfully recovered over 22,000 liters of LNAPL, including heavy, high-viscosity garage oils, providing an efficient solution in a demanding industrial environment.

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Meet our Speaker

Aurélien Vandekerckhove

Business Development & Engineering Manager

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Aurélien holds a Master in Industrial Chemistry Engineering (High Polymer – Coating & Varnishes), for which he received a great distinction, and the Special Price of La Haute Ecole Lucia De Brouckère. In 2014, he did a laboratory internship at Vivaqua, where he performed DBO measurements of water before and after treatment plant and also developed sorting data programs. He wrote his thesis in Dublin (Yurii Gun’ko laboratory in Trinity College – Dublin) on “Synthesis and Investigation of Chiral Functionalized TiO2 and MN3O4”.

He joined Haemers Technologies at the end of 2016 as a Project Engineer in Research & Development and is now Manager of the Business Development & Engineering department.