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March 8, 2021

Skills for maintenance technicians of the future

The Smart Maintenance Skillslab project brings together educational institutes (Avans Breda and ROC Tilburg) and organizations (Actemium, Dimensys, Kuehne + Nagel and Stork) to identify the necessary skills for the...

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Plastic waste
March 3, 2021

A long way to go to achieve a fully circular system

The Circular Plastics Conference 2021 offers a series of online sessions, diving deeper into specific subjects. During the second conference day, there were two parallel sessions that went more into...

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February 19, 2021

Condugo’s €1 million pilot project in (petro)chemical sector

Condugo, a specialist in energy management with offices in Antwerp and Brussels, has developed a solution tailored to large-scale industry with its Energy Hub software. The Flemish Agency for Innovation...

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Overview of technologies for (re-)use, upgrading and storage of heat
February 11, 2021

Overview of technologies for (re-)use, upgrading and storage of heat

With the help of Findest, the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology made an overview of the heat (re-)use and storage technologies.

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February 9, 2021

Dedicated collaboration is needed in realizing a full Circular Plastics society

Lessons learned at the first session of the Circular Plastics Conference 2021 Last week Thursday the first session of the Circular Plastics Conference 2021 took place. Over 100 participants gathered...

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Flexsteam heat pump
February 9, 2021

Closing our energy loops with cost-efficient heat storage technology

To achieve a fully circular economy we will have to be able to close our material and also our energy loops. Re-using, storing and upgrading energy is an essential part...

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Sustainable heat in the Dutch industry
February 4, 2021

Carbon-free heat processes can be enabled by electrically driven thermoacoustic heat pumps

The industry is a large consumer of energy and about two-thirds of the industry’s energy use is represented by heat. Often high-temperature heat is required, which is currently provided by...

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February 3, 2021

The Circular Plastics Initiative has the possibility to improve the recycling situation in different countries in Europe

My name is Mohamed Hany Abokersh and I am a Sustainability Analyst holding a PhD in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering from Universitat Rovira i Virgili as a part of...

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February 2, 2021

“Part of my PhD was dedicated to the development of microplastics detection methods”

I am Liron Zada, I am a 38-year-old Postdoc at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I am married with three children, living in the Netherlands for more than 8 years. I...

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February 1, 2021

“My study background and interest have naturally led me to circularity of materials”

My name is Juraj Petrík, I am 26 years old, and my research topic is focused on the circularity of plastics and life cycle assessment (LCA). I was introduced to...

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December 22, 2020

Electrification in industry

TKI Energy & Industry is developing a roadmap to give direction and speed to electrification in industry. What does electrification mean for large chemical complexes such as Chemelot? And what...

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ISPT Theme Electrification - Wind turbines on sea - ©Shaun Dakin
December 21, 2020

Collaboration as the keyword for electrification in industry

Electrification in industry, or the transition from fossil to renewable electrical energy and the elimination of CO2 emissions: it is easier said than done. The electrification roadmap is a good...

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Dion Smink
December 17, 2020

I was inspired by the sustainable nature of the project

Dion Smink researched the topic of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) at University of Twente.

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Zonnepanelen
December 16, 2020

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...

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December 16, 2020

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...

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December 16, 2020

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...

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December 16, 2020

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...

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December 16, 2020

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...

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December 10, 2020

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.

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Fascinating: agrofood van de toekomst
December 7, 2020

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.

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Carbon Transition Model
December 4, 2020

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...

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December 3, 2020

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. LESSON has focused on modifying the prototype so that the impact of operating in the two-phase region of the working...

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RiConfigure - Civil Society
December 2, 2020

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...

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November 16, 2020

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...

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