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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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Sustainable heat in the Dutch industry

COMTA – COMpact modular Thermo Acoustic heat pump

To further develop the compact electrically driven thermoacoustic heat (TA) pump technology and to prepare for technical demonstration on full scale. The industry is a large consumer of energy and...

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Engender: Energy Efficient Drying
Completed

Engender: Compact Energy Efficient Dryer

Engender works on an energy efficient drying method of foods. Expected energy savings are estimated up to 30%.

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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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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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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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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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Food Roadmap: sustainability in the food industry
Completed

RFS2 – Radio Frequent Sterilization 2

The project Radio Frequent Sterizilation 2 (RFS2) is focused on the development of RF in-pack sterilization of foods. The project is a continuation of the JIP-project Radio Frequent Sterilization (RFS)...

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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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Circular Aromatics - BioBTX

Circular Aromatics – Turning Waste into High-Value Circular Plastics

As the world moves toward net-zero carbon goals, the demand for sustainable materials is rapidly increasing. Plastics, essential in countless applications, must evolve to meet the demands of a circular,...

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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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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

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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e-missi0n MOOI
Completed

e-Missi0n MOOI

e-Missi0n developed two technological routes for the emission free production of low-carbon olefins.

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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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Ammomnia Pipeline Safety
Completed

Ammonia Pipeline Safety

The Clean Ammonia Platform is doing a study on safety design and risk impact of ammonia pipelines to explore ways to safely transport large volumes of ammonia by pipeline in...

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I40-20-03 SAAI
Completed

SAAI – Social Acceptance of AI in Industry

The SAAI project focuses on accelerating the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in industry, leading to an energy use reduction of 5-40%, an increased competitiveness of industry, and increased economic...

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texpower

TEXPOWER – Textile Polycotton Waste Evaluation & Recycling

The TEXPOWER project aims to enable a transparent, circular polycotton textile value chain for a sustainable industry in the Netherlands.

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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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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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CareFree Models for real-time decision-making

Carefree Models puts process model maintenance, adaptation and transfer into an integrated, automated, and predictive framework that quantifies and reduces the overall resources required to sustain process predictivity and resulting...

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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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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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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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