LEMPLAR – Losses & Emissions in Plastic Recycling
Losses and emissions, such as microplastics, inks and incorrectly sorted plastics, prevent us of closing the plastic cycle.
INSPEC – Integrating sensor based process monitoring and advanced process control
INSPEC quantitatively integrates information from state-of-the-art Process Analytical Technology, process measurements and dynamic process models (data driven or physics-based) into Advanced Process Control. This will induce a step-change with respect to...
GRIP on Drying
This project investigates how inline sensors can help improving product quality and efficiency.
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...
InReP – An Integrated approach towards Recycling of Plastics
Recycling plastics is one of the biggest challenges the industry is facing today. This projects aims to overcome current challenges.
Riconfigure
Understanding how best to support the involvement of traditionally overseen participants in the innovation process is the purpose for which the research project RiConfigure has been established. When addressing the...
Methanol, the LOGIC Choice!
The new LOGIC project scales-up the Liquid-Out Gas-In Concept (LOGIC) reactor for methanol synthesis from CO2 and sustainable hydrogen. Incentive Because of the rising amount of intermittently available sustainable energy,...
SPOT: Sustainable PrOcess heaTing
SPOT (Sustainable PrOcess) aims to reduce the use of fossil energy use for industrial heat with at least 100 PJ/year in 2030.
COMPACT – Pulsed Compression II
Ethylene production by compressive activation of methane. Goal The goal of this project is to produce ethylene from methane using pulsed compression technology and to determine the feasibility for industrial...
GreenWedge
The GreenWedge project helps SMEs actively market their sustainable technology.
BRECSIT – Bio-based REsin CompoSIte Technologies
Plantics-GX composites can replace conventional, fossil-based plastic composites.
FUSE – FUll ScalE Industrial Heat Pump Using Natural Refrigerants
Supporting the development and success of an industrial heat pump market through the develeopment of a standardized, modular, flexible compression heat pump technology. Incentive High temperature industrial heat pumps are...
CirBind – Circular binder applications
Scale-up of the Plantics-GX bioresin production process to generate safe, strong, and high impact circular binder applications. Incentive Many construction materials such as wood panels contain toxic binders. These binders...
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...
Reducing energy use and material loss by better control of agglomeration during spray drying
Improved agglomeration control will contribute to the reduction of emissions and to meet increasing strict fine dust emission regulations for industrial drying systems.
Engender: Compact Energy Efficient Dryer
Engender works on an energy efficient drying method of foods. Expected energy savings are estimated up to 30%.
Deep Eutectic Solvents in the Paper Industry
The European project cluster aims to approach 80% CO2 emission reduction in the lignocellulose processing chain, compared to the current chain based on kraft pulping by the application of Deep...
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...
Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center
This project covers the design, realization and exploration of the Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center at the Zernike Campus in Groningen.
W2T – Waste2Taste
Waste to Taste is a project about closing the circle in food waste streams using vegetable waste for the production of fully natural food ingredients.
EEMS – Energy Efficient Milky Sprays
Reducing energy requirements in spray drying processes. Incentive Spray drying is a very energy intensive process to dry amongst others milk products into a functional powders. A liquid with typically...
VERA – ACCELERATION ENERGY TRANSITION REALIZATION APPROACH
Heat pump technology has a lot of potential. For instance to reduce energy-use, promote electrification, and stimulate circularity in industrial processes. However, the success of industrial heat pump technology strongly...
ECWRTI – Electrocoagulation for Water Recycling in Textile Industry
The ECWRTI project is about closing the waterloop in the textile industry.
FreezeCon – Freeze Concentration
Saving energy, improving product quality with freeze concentration as economically feasible bulk dewatering technology. Background Several technologies are available for liquid concentration in the food industry, the most common being...