Eric De Muylder is managing director of CreveTec, a company that develops and supplies technology for ecological production of crustaceans, with particular emphasis on optimalisation of nutrient assimilation and reduction of effluent loads.
Education :
University : October 1982 - July 1987
Agricultural engineering studies
specialty Waters and Forestry
Catholic University of Leuven
Endwork : Growth of the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus.
Evaluation of brewery by-products as fish feeds. In cooperation with :
Environmental Biotechnology Group - Breweries Artois Leuven
Laboratory for Ecology and Aquaculture - Prof. Dr. F. Ollevier
Working experience :
September 1987 - February 1989 Environmental Biotechnology Group - NV
Interbrew Experience and Research :
Utilization of Brewery by-products as fish feeds
Optimalisation of a recirculation pilot-scale plant for the culture of
eels, catfish and tilapia
March 1989 - December 1989 Seghers Engineering -
AquaLeuven Experience and Research :
Biodegradation tests for industrial waste waters (anaerobic and aerobic
treatment, denitrification)
Research on the economic feasibility of the utilization of brewery
activated sludge in cattle and fish feeds by extrusion and drying (In
cooperation withVitamex Dendermonde)
Optimalisation of a catfish feed
January 1991 - August 1991 Research and writing of Ph.D. Thesis
September 1991 - March 1995 VDS Agromasters Belgium management
contract for the Seychelles Marketing Board in Seychelles Experience :
Day to day running of a feedmill (8000 - 12000 MT /year) which
supplies all the animal feed requirements of Seychelles (feeds for layers,
broilers, turkeys, ducks, pigs, cattle, horses, rabbits, dogs and cats)
Introduction of more local ingredients in animal feed (Tuna fish meal,
coral, poonac, hatchery waste and slaughterhouse wastes)
Optimalisation of shrimp feed for a completely integrated prawn farm on
the outlying island of Coetivy (capacity : 600 MT of prawns / year)
Supervision of the construction and starting up of a silo storage and
automatic dosing system for raw materials (capacity 1500 MT)
Research into the possibility of farming the giant African land snails
(Achatina fulica and A. pantera) for human consumption and as
an ingredient in shrimp feed.
Research into the ecology and possibility of farming and reproduction of
the land/mangrove crab Cardisoma carnifex .
April 1995 - August 1996
Supervising of the construction and starting up of a shrimp feed mill
with a capacity of 6000 MT per year
Optimalisation of the shrimp feed, formulation and production.
Feasibility study for a production unit for snacks and breakfast
cereals.
September 1996 - March 2006 VDS Belgium Nutritionist
Feasibility study for a fishmeal and rendering plant in Seychelles
Least cost formulation of livestock and aquaculture diets
Upgrading of the existing shrimp feed mill in Seychelles
Feasibility study of a petfood and fishfeed production unit in Kuwait
Creation of Web pages VDS
Consultancy for the production of shrimp feeds in India, Iran, Portugal and Madagascar: formulation of shrimp feed diets, upgrading shrimp feedmills for capacity and quality, training of production managers, sales/exports of those shrimp feeds, visting customers (shrimp farmers).
Languages : Profound : Dutch, English, French Speaking : Creole
(Seychelles) Notions : Portuguese (1 year evening classes), German
Computer languages : DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1 till XP Office 2000: Excell, Word, Powerpoint.
Paintshop Pro 4 HTML editing, GIF animation,
notions of Javascript, Creation of web pages.
Youth movement : 17 years membership Scouts of which 7 years as
monitor Holder of head monitor certificate 2 years member of municipal
youth council
Voluntaries : 7 years volunteer in Oxfam worldshop, member of municipal council for international cooperation.
PADI Open Water Diver
Publications :
L. Vriens, E. De Muylder and D. Eyben, 1989. Aquaculture in warm brewery
effluents : A way to upgrade the used waters, the waste heat and by-products.
Brewers Digest December 1989, p 12-19
E. De Muylder, L. Vriens, H. Verachtert and F. Ollevier,
1991. Incorporation of brewery activated sludge- single cell-proteins
(BSCP) in diets for Clarias gariepinus B. Processing methods to improve the
availability of the nutrients. Fish nutrition in practice, Biarritz,
France, June 24-27, 1991
EIFAC Working Party on Eel, 29 may - 3 June 1989, Porto, Portugal
IV International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, 24-27 June 1991,
Biarritz, France
Larvi 91, Fish and Crustacean Larviculture Symposium, 27-30 august, Ghent,
Belgium
Larvi 95, Fish and Crustacean Larviculture Symposium, 3-7 September,
Ghent, Belgium
Feed Ingredients Asia '95, 19-21 September 1995, Singapore
World Aquaculture '96, 29 January - 2 February 1996, Bangkok, Thailand
Second International Conference on the Culture of Penaeid Prawns and
Shrimps, 14-17 may 1996, Iloilo City, Philippines
VIII International Symposium on Nutrition and Feeding of Fish. Recent
Advances in Finfish & Crustacean Nutrition, June 1-4 1998, Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain
World Aquaculture conference Sydney, Australia, 26 April-2 May 1999
World Aquaculture conference Nice, France, 2-6 May 2000
World Aquaculture conference Orlando, USA, 21-25 January 2001
Larvi 2001, Ghent, Belgium, 3-6 September 2001
World Aquaculture conference Beijing, China, 23-27 April 2002
Responsable Shrimp Culture, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 3-5 December 2002
VI International Symposium on Aquaculture Nutrition, Cancun, Mexico, 3-6 September 2002
World Aquaculture conference Salvador, Brasil, 19-23 May 2003
World Aquaculture conference Honolulu, Hawaii, 19-23 May 2004
World Aquaculture conference Bali, Indonesia 9-13 May 2005
Courses :
Seminar on Quality Awareness, 22-25 August 1995, Seychelles
Practical Short Course on Aquaculture Feed Preparation, Nutrition, &
Feed Management, Food Protein Research and Development Center. Texas A&M
University, USA, September 7-12, 1997.
L. Vriens, E. De Muylder and D. Eyben, 1989.
