Advanced Carbohydrates Biorefinery: From Waste to Value
Every year, large amounts of tertiary cellulose end up being incinerated. This results in unnecessary CO₂ emissions and loss of valuable material. The ACB project develops an alternative route: one...
Recircanol: Circular recovery of ethanol from alkaline-ethanol media at high pH using membrane technology
This project develops nanofiltration membranes and membrane modules for alkaline-alcohol media at high pH for the purification of ethanol and caustic.
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...
TREPS – Trace Removal Using Electrically Powered Separations
In a circular economy, traces need to be removed to keep the loop clean. TREPS deals with trace removal using electricity.
Completed
S2C – Steel2Chemicals
The project Steel2Chemicals develops a closed value chain in which CO from steel production is used as feedstock for the chemical industry.
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...
Completed
Novel Process Routes – Reduction of energy use by novel process routes for food (ProFo)
Several partners are working towards a 50% reduction of energy use developing novel process routes in food processing.
CRUISE – Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps
CRUISE project aims to develop 50% less expensive heat pump technology that generates heat in an economically feasible way
New
Ammonia to Power
The Ammonia to Power project explores the techno-economic potential of ammonia powered electricity generation.
Completed
HF2N – High Flux 2D Nanosheet membranes
High Flux 2D Nanosheet membranes to demonstrate and validate the high potential of a new class of inorganic high flux 2D Nanosheet membranes on a practical scale
Completed
Cell-U-Value
Cell-U-Value developed and utilized the capabilities of tertiary cellulose as a feedstock for biobased and sustainable chemicals to its fullest potential.
Completed
GRIP on Drying
This project investigates how inline sensors can help improving product quality and efficiency.
GAMBA – Green Alloys Modelling Better Approaches
The GAMBA project seeks to reduce the carbon footprint of the iron and steel industry by transitioning from natural gas to hydrogen-based direct reduction (DRI) processes.
New
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.
Completed
DISCO – Downstream ISolation of high-value COmponents
The Downstream ISolation of high-value Components (DISCO) aims to lower the material use and increase the energy-efficiency.
Completed
DC-DC converters – Green GW Hydrogen Plant
In this project we investigate DC-DC connections for large-scale green hydrogen plants to address space constraints, reduce investment costs (up to 25%), and mitigate significant electricity losses compared to traditional...
Completed
C2V – Carbon2Value
Innovative CO2 separation technology aims to reduce emissions in steel industry. This project revolves around an innovative technology with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions across the major energy intensive...
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.
Odysseus
Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.
Completed
EAMS – Energy efficient Affinity-driven Molecular Separation
The aim of the EAMS project is to: Application New or improved affinity separation options for selected cases: extractive distillation and (reactive) liquid-liquid extraction.
Completed
Steam and condensate quality
This project focuses on requiering better insights into the distribution and behaviour of conditioning chemicals that is used in their steam-water cycles and condensate polishing. Process industries strive for more...
Demonstration Polymer Heat Exchanger
The goal of this project is to demonstrate the innovative technologies as developed by HeatMatrix in the industrial process in the BioMCN factories. On the one hand this would result...
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.
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.