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Climate wins at NPS17 Energy Webinar
Due to covid-19 the Netherlands Process Technology Symposium, that was to be held at the TU Delft this year and organized by TU Delft with support of ISPT, had to...
Endless engineering opportunities at NSP17 food, health and pharma webinar
On Wednesday November 25 the virtual, covid-proof edition of NSP17, organized by TU Delft with support of ISPT, came to an end with the final webinar on food, health and...
NSP17 Water Webinar: a dazzling look at the future
Officially water technology is not a science field yet – except in the Netherlands. Rightly so, because global warming will increasingly cause rising seas, draughts and water shortages. So the...
Learning from nature’s efficiency at NPS17 Circularity Webinar
On Wednesday November 11, 2020 the NPS17 Webinar on Circularity was being held. It was the second one in a series of four webinars on the over-arching theme ‘Sustaining the...
Important steps in regeneration of Deep Eutectic Solvents
Efficient regeneration of the Deep Eutectic Solvent used for the delignification of wood, is important to achieve a cost-effective and sustainable new pulping process.
De toekomst van de landbouw wordt geschreven in Groningen
Fascinating realiseert een circulair landbouw systeem dat duurzaamheid, natuur, gezonde voeding en economische impact met elkaar in balans brengt.
Grip on carbon flows with Carbon Transition Model
The Carbon Transition Model (CTM) provides the context that is needed to give direction to the transition and jointly determine the most logical sequence of steps. It will support decision-makers...
Lessons learned from an oil-free wet compressor
The recently completed LESSON project has identified the sources of losses of an oil-free wet compressor prototype that was built in a previous project.
Recommendations on building appropriate collaborative structures
In an inclusive online workshop organized by the RiConfigure initiative, researchers, innovation policy makers and practitioners co-created a second policy brief on how appropriate collaborative structures can be established. Quadruple...
HIMS researchers highlight the future of plastics with multi-partner BRECSIT project
Biodegradable plastics have an important role to play in the greening of our society and in the transition to a circular economy, say Dr. Layla Filiciotto and Prof. Gadi Rothenberg...
PTTP Students Graduation Ceremony
On the 11th of November, the Graduation event of the Process Technology Talent Program (PTTP) students Cohort 2018 took place. Every year, this event is a big event. Due to...
Pre-treatment with Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) can lead to increased drying robustness of bacteria
PhD defence of Evelien Vaessen The Probiotics project team of the project Low Energy Living Bacterial Food Formulations celebrated Evelien Vaessen’s PhD defence on Monday the 12th of October 2020....
Dutch National Growth Fund: dare to excel
The Dutch National Growth Fund offers great opportunities for green hydrogen and chemistry.
ISPT study brings gigawatt scale electrolysers a step closer
The Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) coordinated a unique study into the cost of scaling up electrolysers to the gigawatt scale for producing green hydrogen. ISPT hosted a webinar on...
Circularity in cellulose
For Recell’s Erik Pijlman there’s no doubt: cellulose extracted from waste streams is a valuable sustainable resource for the chemical industry. Thanks to ISPT he got in touch with chemical...
“We need to get going towards application-driven recycling”
The National Test Center Circular Plastics has state-of-the-art technology and facilities for sorting and separating plastic waste streams. With testing and research on an industrial scale, it contributes to closing...
Extended Producer Responsibility: does it also apply to plastic packaging?
Are producers responsible for the recycling of plastic packaging? This was the subject of the sixth online panel discussion held on 17 September 2020 as part of ISPT’s Industrie in...
A good idea: Saving electrical energy using artificial intelligence
ISPT gladly offers start-ups and SMEs access to its broad network in sustainable process technology. In this way, good ideas get more resonance and innovation more potential. A good example...
War on plastic waste: eerst de kraan dicht, dan dweilen
Plastic is een geweldig materiaal: het is licht, multifunctioneel en goedkoop. Tegelijk vormt plastic afval een van de grote uitdagingen van onze tijd. Daarom gingen we zaterdag, tijdens World Cleanup...
The next generation process installations
DSM, Nouryon and Huntsman researched the potential of rotating packed beds with the TU Dortmund and the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT). RPB technology offers many advantages, as the...
Effective Energy Exchange in Industrial Clusters across Europe
New project R-ACES helps to turn industry clusters into eco-regions Press release How can European industrial parks reduce their CO2 emissions, waste, and material consumption? The European project R-ACES aims...
Imperial College London: Plastic packaging materials have the least impactful carbon footprint
How do alternative materials perform compared to plastic when it comes to their carbon footprint? This was the central question in the research of Imperial College London and Veolia. In...
Connecting climate innovations from industry with social issues during Springtij
During the last weekend of September the annual sustainability forum Springtij takes place on the island of Terschelling. For three days government, NGOs, industry and society will focus on sustainability...
“We will all have to get used to it”
This statement is made by Frans van den Akker in an interview on Industry 4.0 for the Dutch magazine Europoort Kringen. They talk about how the introduction of Artificial Intelligence...