Karel Van Acker

About Karel Van Acker

Karel Van Acker, With an exceptional h-index of 40 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, specializes in the field of Sustainability assessments, circular economy, resource efficiency, materials science.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Towards sustainable resource valorization: A life cycle sustainability assessment of metals recovery from sulfidic mining residues in Sweden

SAB: An open-access Python-based integrated platform for fully automated emergent sustainability assessment of biorefineries

The Goals of Product Passports

Prospective life cycle assessment of hemp fiber production versus conventional glass fiber production

Modeling the current and future flow of post-consumer textile waste in Flanders and the Netherlands

The Circular Economy as a requirement for smart information system designs

Building the next generation of circular economy monitors based on information system concepts

The circular economy as a requirement for IS

Karel Van Acker Information

University

Position

Full Professor

Citations(all)

7002

Citations(since 2020)

4599

Cited By

3643

hIndex(all)

40

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

84

i10Index(since 2020)

57

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Karel Van Acker Skills & Research Interests

Sustainability assessments

circular economy

resource efficiency

materials science

Top articles of Karel Van Acker

Towards sustainable resource valorization: A life cycle sustainability assessment of metals recovery from sulfidic mining residues in Sweden

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

2024/5/1

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

SAB: An open-access Python-based integrated platform for fully automated emergent sustainability assessment of biorefineries

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

2024/1/4

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

The Goals of Product Passports

2023/9/7

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Prospective life cycle assessment of hemp fiber production versus conventional glass fiber production

2023/7/3

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Modeling the current and future flow of post-consumer textile waste in Flanders and the Netherlands

2023/7/2

The Circular Economy as a requirement for smart information system designs

2023/6/19

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Building the next generation of circular economy monitors based on information system concepts

2023/6/12

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

The circular economy as a requirement for IS

2023/6/12

Use of a fully biobased and non-reprotoxic epoxy polymer and woven hemp fabric to prepare environmentally friendly composite materials with excellent physical properties

Composites Part B: Engineering

2023/6/1

Sylvie Pourchet
Sylvie Pourchet

H-Index: 14

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment using the Social Footprint methodology 2021: Comparing sustainability performance of bio fiber with conventional glass fiber

2023/5/3

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Defining the goals of Product Passports by circular product strategies

Procedia CIRP

2023/1/1

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Integrated early-stage environmental and economic assessment of emerging technologies and its applicability to the case of plasma gasification

2023/1/1

Steven Van Passel
Steven Van Passel

H-Index: 32

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

How to measure a circular economy: A holistic method compiling policy monitors

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

2023/1/1

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Environmental assessment of woven hemp fibre reinforced epoxy composites and potential applications in aerospace and electric scooter industries

Results in Materials

2023/12/1

Preliminary Environmental Assessment of Carbonated Slags as a Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Materials (CCUS)

Materials Proceedings

2023/11/6

Environmental Impact Assessment of Silicon Wafers Supply Chains in the Semiconductor Industry

2023/9/27

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Creep behaviour of eco-friendly sandwich composite materials under hygrothermal conditions

Composites Part B: Engineering

2022/12/1

Fabrizio Scarpa
Fabrizio Scarpa

H-Index: 52

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Environmental impact assessment of cascading use of wood in bio-fuels and bio-chemicals

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

2022/11/1

Wouter Arts
Wouter Arts

H-Index: 1

Karel Van Acker
Karel Van Acker

H-Index: 24

Assessing Circularity of Wood Cascading

2022/9/6

How to monitor the progress towards a circular food economy: A Delphi study

Sustainable Production and Consumption

2022/7/1

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