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ReCoVR

ReCoVR – Recovery and Circularity of Valuable Resources

ReCoVR designs and develops novel functional materials and technologies to selectively recover high-value molecules.

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ReBBloCS - riwald recycling

Renewable Building Blocks from Complex and wet waste Streams (ReBBloCS)

The ReBBloCS project aims to develop new circular value chains for the valorisation of complex and mixed waste streams into valuable chemical products.

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Radial multi-zone drying
Completed

RMZD – Radial Multi-Zone Drying

The Radial Multi-zone Dryer (RMD) project investigates new type of spray dryer for premium product properties and low specific energy consumption.

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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

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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SUNSOLr: Electrification of Chemical Conversions

SUNSOLr: Electrification of Chemical Conversions

The SUNSOLr project is dedicated to developing technologies for the direct electrification of chemical conversions, focusing on CO2 and H2O/H2 to produce chemicals like CO, CH4, olefins, and methanol.

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Completed

ERGO – Energy Reduction by Condition-based Monitoring

Unlocking energy efficiency and fault detection with electrical signal analysis Electric motors and rotating equipment—such as pumps, fans, compressors, and conveyors—consume over 40% of global electricity. However, nearly one-third of...

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CMF - Controlling Multiphase Flow
Completed

CMF – Controlling Multiphase Flow

This Industrial Partnership Programme aims at understanding the rheology of complex emulsions and their stability under flow. While there is much empirical knowledge about emulsion rheology and stability, the microscopic...

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Bio4Steel

How can biochar — an organic material created by heating wood or other plant material in the absence of oxygen — play a role in replacing fossil coal in the...

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STNF - Solvent Tolerant Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes for the purification of industrial aqueous streams
Completed

STNF – Solvent Tolerant Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes for the purification of industrial aqueous streams

Many industrial process streams contain water with solvents and other organic components. Such streams need to be purified from these components or need to be treated before further handling. Polymeric...

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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

IMPROVISE – Improved process operation via rigorous simulation models

Improved daily operations of important chemical processes in the Dutch chemical industry through operation technology based on detailed physical models. Incentive Being able to anticipate what a chemical process is...

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SUPP - Steel Slag Upgrading and PCC Production
Completed

SUPP – Steel Slag Upgrading and PCC Production

The aim of the SUPP project is to create one combined and integrated robust batch process in order to stabilize and upgrade steel slag and neutralize hydrochloric acid. In addition, it...

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Circular binder applications
Completed

CirBind – Circular binder applications

ISPT's Cirbind project scales up the Plantics-GX bioresin production process to generate safe, strong & high impact circular binder applications.

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FUSE - FUll ScalE Industrial Heat Pump Using Natural Refrigerants

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...

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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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COSMOS - Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes on low cost ceramic supports
Completed

COSMOS – Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes on low cost ceramic supports

The COSMOS-project found that membrane technology has the potential to replace or supplement current inefficient distillation processes.

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CRUISE - Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps

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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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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DES: a nature-based, renewable pulping technology
Completed

PRIDES: Deep Eutectic Solvents in the Paper Industry

The European project cluster aims to approach 80% CO2 emission reduction in the lignocellulose processing chain.

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Fingerprint 2 Footprint

Fingerprint 2 Footprint

Fingerprint 2 Footprint translates chemical fingerprint measurements inside and near chemical processes to reduce environmental footprints, while retaining or improving process economy and consistency.

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flexible efficient electrification of industrial heat cases

Flexible Efficient Electrification of Industrial Heat Cases

This project will develop innovative process designs solving the efficient flexible electrification challenge.

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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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PoSiMem

PoSiMem – Periodic organosilica nanofiltration membranes

This project aims to develop robust, reproducible and easy to scale-up approaches for the production of novel nanofiltration (NF) membranes.

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