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FOMM - Forward Osmosis Membrane and Module development
Completed

FOMM – Forward Osmosis Membrane and Module development

Forward osmosis (FO) is a technology recently developed on academic level, with very few example applications in the market, despite its strong benefits. FO is an energy efficient and effective...

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EEMS - Energy Efficient Milky Sprays
Completed

EEMS – Energy Efficient Milky Sprays

Spray drying is a very energy intensive process. EEMS is about energy efficient drying which can lead to 20% energy reduction.

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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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EAMS - Energy efficient Affinity-driven Molecular Separation
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.

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CIRCPET circular PET tray
Completed

CIRCPET – Circular PET trays for perishable food applications

PET trays are currently difficult to recycle. How can we create a fully circular PET tray solution that meets market demands while minimizing environmental impact?

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Condensate Polishing Unit
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...

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HyChain - Energy Carriers and Hydrogen Supply Chain
Completed

HyChain – Energy Carriers and Hydrogen Supply Chain

The HyChain project is focused on a strategic understanding of the drivers behind global emergence of future renewable hydrogen value chains.

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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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Next Level Solid Oxide Electrolysis
Completed

Next Level Solid Oxide Electrolysis

Solid Oxide Electrolysis is a technology with great potential for large-scale green hydrogen production by water electrolysis. This project explores the upscaling potential of SOEC.

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SEUSS – Saving Energy by Upcycling of Side Streams

The shift to plant‑based proteins demands smarter, cleaner processing. SEUSS develops new ways to reduce energy use and recover valuable resources from side streams. In Short Energy-related challenges The protein...

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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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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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ELSA - Electrically Switchable Adsorption membranes

ReValue – Recovery of Valuable minerals with hybrid ceramic membrane crystallization

The ReValue project explores the potential of membrane crystallization, a promising technology to recover valuable compounds from aqueous streams.

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AutoPlastic: Shaping the Future of Automotive and Plastic Recycling

As the automotive industry faces new recycling legislation, the AutoPlastic project leads the way in boosting car plastic recycling. It helps the Dutch automotive sector stay ahead by developing solutions...

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Steel2Chemicals: a circular carbon chain
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.

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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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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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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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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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improved circularity
Completed

Towards improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging

This project aims at improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging materials through overcoming technological hurdles.

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Sustainable PrOcess

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.

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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 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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PROVE IT: a CO2-to-methanol conversion technology
Completed

PROVE IT

PROVE IT is all about the technical feasibility of the production of methanol from CO2 waste gas.

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