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ReSolve: reuse of industrial solvent process streams

ReSolve – Re-use of industrial solvent process streams

Ceramic organic solvent nanofiltration membranes with small pore sizes and high throughputs, as compared to polymeric membranes, will be developed by a novel technology.

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Nanofiltration EAMS - Membrane development
Completed

Nanofiltration (EAMS) – Hybrid membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

Nanofiltration (EAMS) is a project that focusses on finding practical and economical viable membrane materials to be commercially applied.

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Large scale electrolysis
Completed

Hydrohub GigaWatt Scale Electrolyser

We are an important step further towards a Dutch hydrogen economy: the design for an advanced green hydrogen plant at large scale.

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Nanofiltration membranes
Completed

CALMEM – Ceramic atomic layer deposited Nanofiltration membranes for separation of challenging industrial streams

Calmem concerns nano manufactured ceramic membranes that can supersede distillation columns for energy saving in the Netherlands.

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Biorefinery Program
Completed

Biorefinery Program

Biorefinery enables the production of healthy ingredients and the recovery of valuable components (i.e. proteins) out of process streams.

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Odysseus

Odysseus

Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.

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ISRO - Implementation of Solvent Recovery in edible Oil
Completed

ISRO – Implementation of Solvent Recovery in edible Oil

The ISRO project delivers a proof-of-principle of organic solvent nanofiltration-based solvent recovery for two cases. The first case is an integration of OSN with the current distillation process at IOI...

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ELSA - Renewable energy

ELSA – Electrically Switchable Affinity Separation Processes

Exploring the advantages of Electrically Switchable Adsorption (ELSA) membranes in the industrial separation process.

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plasma conversion
Completed

Plasma Conversions

Industrial ammonia production is energy intensive and has a huge footprint. A plasma integrated water electrolyser provides an ecologically clean alternative process to Haber-Bosch.

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Completed

Preciouspitation

Obtaining process water out of rain from own roof with high energy saving potential compared to current processes. Motivation and Scope Rainwater is already chemically very pure. Only some evaporated...

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CRUISE - Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps
Completed

CRUISE – Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps

CRUISE project aims to develop 50% less expensive heat pump technology that generates heat in an economically feasible way

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Completed

PINcHED – Process INtegrated HEat pump Drying

This project creates greenfield conceptual design packages for contact and convective drying of a full scale. In addition, it focuses on establishing a fully heat pump integrated drying process, including...

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ECWRTI - Blue micro fiber texture denim
Completed

ECWRTI – Electrocoagulation for Water Recycling in Textile Industry

The ECWRTI project is about closing the waterloop in the textile industry.

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FLEXSTEAM – Development of heat storage for industrial steam

The FLEXSTEAM project aims to improve the way we can store and re-use  thermal energy by using so called ‘Phase Changing Materials’ (PCMs). To achieve a fully circular economy we...

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Bio-based plastics
Completed

BRECSIT – Bio-based REsin CompoSIte Technologies

Plantics-GX composites can replace conventional, fossil-based plastic composites.

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RiConfigure - Civil Society
Completed

RiConfigure

RiConfigure is about involving a diverse group of actors in society’s innovation team.

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ECONEXT – Enabling protein CONcentrates for EXTrusion

ECONEXT paves the way for a sustainable shift in protein production—one that’s not just better for the planet, but also economically viable and locally rooted.

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Completed

WeCare – We Create Awareness & Reduce Energy

The WeCARE project demonstrated the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence technology of EnergQ at a selected number of end users. EnerGQ’s self-learning energy management technology unveiled the excessive energy consumption and with that...

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EBI - Engineering Business Intelligence

EBI – Engineering Business Intelligence

The EBI project uses data collection, data analytics and data visualization to reduce energy usage in existing processes by 5-25%.

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SiC-Water drop
Completed

SiC – Silicon Carbide membranes for innovative oil-in-water separations

This project investigates the behavior of silicon carbide membranes in pilot trials. These determine fouling, cleaning options, cleaning frequency and the consequences for the long term performance and economics. Test...

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COLFILM - Collapsing Films in Emulsions
Completed

COLFILM – Collapsing Films in Emulsions

In this project computer simulations are used to reveal the impact of a crucial underlying phenomenon: little waves on the surface of droplets that can suddenly grow and thus accelerate...

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Completed

IoF – Internet of Food

The Internet of Food (IoF) project defines the sharing of data and models in order to improve sensing systems in food production.

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Completed

HOPy – Headstart on pyrolysis

HOPy wants to find a solution that mitigates the environmental impact of plastic waste and taps into its potential as a resource for creating new materials.

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LESSON – Oil free compressor for ammonia based high temperature heat pumps

Wet compression allows for close to isothermal conditions during compression resulting in higher compression isentropic efficiencies. It further prevents operation in the superheating zone of the working fluids of heat...

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