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Reducing agricultural waste with Waste2Taste
Waste2Taste aims to reduce agricultural waste by using vegetable waste streams to generate high quality dried powders.

Landbouw van de toekomst “Soms dient zich een idee aan dat elke verwachting te boven gaat”
Hoe ziet de Nederlandse landbouw er in de toekomst uit?

Experts ISPT nemen eiwittransitie onder hun hoede
Een circulair landbouwsysteem vraagt om een eiwittransitie. Het programma Fascinating wist deze 4 inhoudelijke experts aan zich te binden.

Webinars on sustaining the future
Due to covid-19 the Netherlands Process Technology Symposium (NPS) had to be postponed. But since climate change does not wait, we replaced the event by a series of 4 webinars...

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...

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.

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.

Reducing energy use and material loss by controlling agglomeration spray drying
The new StAgglop project aims to develop scaling-relations to manage sticky behavior and agglomeration in spray drying.

The ambition of a new agri-food system in the Netherlands
High-quality nutrients in a nitrogen-closed system What does the agri-food chain of the future look like? Elzo de Lange discussed this with Peter Bruinenberg of Avebe and Reggy van der...

Optimal surface drying for consistent quality of leafy vegetables
How Hessing (fruit and vegetables) improved their drying process.
Developing simulation tool for radio frequent sterilization of food
Together with Top BV, Marfo, and NIZO, the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) has finalized the project Radio Frequent Sterilization 2 (RFS2). This project was a continuation of the...
Process modelling and extra data-acquisition guides machine up-grading
Follow our sequel on the case results in the project Grip on Dryers – this time part 4 of 5. Within the Grip on Dryers project, several companies that seek...
Scaling-up of film Freeze Concentration as innovative energy efficient and mild technology
On January 30 a novel custom-designed and built pilot-scale apparatus for film freeze concentration was unveiled at Wageningen University. Film freeze concentration is proposed as an innovative mild technology that...
Looking back: building a sustainable future in 2019
It is obvious that 2019 has been an impactful year. Not only for the sustainable process industry, but also throughout society, in the Netherlands and beyond. Below we briefly illustrate some...
PhD student has another research breakthrough
The Probiotics project team of the project Low Energy Living Bacterial Food Formulations celebrated a breakthrough in Evelien Vaessen’s PhD research on Monday the 16th of December. Vaessen had already...
Making the production of food more sustainable
With the ever faster changing consumer demands, the food industry needs to speed up its innovation and production process to become more efficient and more sustainable. To accelerate this, the...

Redesigning our food industry with sustainable process technology
In our program Drying and Dewatering we focus on one of the most important process steps in the food industry: drying.

New large-scale project on Electrically Switchable Adsorption Separation Processes (ELSA)
ELSA is a study about the advantages of Electrically Switchable Adsorption membranes in the industrial separation process.

How the industry plays a crucial role in establishing a sustainable future
What if we don't see the industry as a big bad polluter, but as an indispensable partner in building a green future?
Spray drying droplets for a better quality end product
On July 5th, Eline Both defended her PhD-thesis on spray drying. Scroll down to read more about Eline and her promotion. Spray drying is a widely applied manner of drying...

Reducing the energy requirements of spray drying
EEMS stands for Energy Efficient Milky Sprays. The project aims to helps spray dry milk products using less energy.
Drying food more efficiently
Thin Film Drying The industrial sector is one of the largest energy consumers now and will remain to be so in the future. Achieving circularity in this sector and moving...
The MFFF-cluster congratulates PhD’s
Concerns several MFFF projects.