Skip to content

ISPT

Institute for Sustainable Process Technology

  • Contact
  • Home
  • News & stories
  • Academy & Events
  • About ISPT
    • Meet our team
    • ISPT Brains
    • 7 reasons to connect
  • Our areas of expertise
    • Raw Materials transition
    • Energy transition
    • Agrifood transition
    • Vision 360
  • Working together
    • Our programs
    • Our projects
    • Our partners
    • Rules & regulations
  • Our Knowledge Base
  • Contact
    • Press and media
    • Newsletter
    • Jobs
Projects

The projects we work on

Filter by theme
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...

View this project
Drying and Dewatering: reducing cost, improving quality
Completed

StAgglop: Reducing energy use and material loss by better control of agglomeration during spray drying

Project stAgglop aims to improve agglomeration control to contribute to the reduction of emissions for industrial drying systems.

View this project
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,...

View this project
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.

View this project
TREPS deals with the removal of traces to keep a circularity loop clean

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.

View this project
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...

View this project
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...

View this project
W2T - Waste to Taste
Completed

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.

View this project
Odysseus

Odysseus

Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.

View this project
Cell-U-Value
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.

View this project
Bio-based plastics
Completed

BRECSIT – Bio-based REsin CompoSIte Technologies

Plantics-GX composites can replace conventional, fossil-based plastic composites.

View this project
RiConfigure - Civil Society
Completed

RiConfigure

RiConfigure is about involving a diverse group of actors in society’s innovation team.

View this project
Predictive technologies for Industry 4.0.
Completed

Measurements 4 Management

Measurement 4 Management (M4M) focused on applying data-driven decision-making in the process industry, by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with the domain knowledge of process engineers.

View this project

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...

View this project
Novel Process Routes - Reduction of energy use by novel process routes for food
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.

View this project
Freezedrying Probiotics
Completed

Probiotics – Low energy living bacterial food formulations

Research towards a novel and generic strategy for probiotics in low energy living bacterial food formulations

View this project
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.

View this project
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...

View this project
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.

View this project

Cascade Recyling of Plastic Film (CaRP)

The CaRP project will find and show realistic cascade recycling routes for packaging film waste to minimise the amount of plastic film waste that is incinerated and to maximise the...

View this project
Converting the methane to ethylene in the pulsed compression reactor poses a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative compared to conventional ethylene production.
Completed

COMPACT – Pulsed Compression II

The goal of this project was to produce ethylene from methane using pulsed compression technology and to determine the feasibility for industrial applications.

View this project
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.

View this project

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.

View this project
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...

View this project
1 2 3 … 6 Next page

ISPT is the leading institute for open innovation in the process industry. At the heart of our efforts is the transition towards a CO2-neutral, circular economy in 2050.


  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy
  • Jobs
  • Contact
Groen van Prinstererlaan 373818 JN AmersfoortThe Netherlands
© ISPT 2018 — 2026

Sign up for our newsletter

We share top stories on the industry achieving a circular economy.

loader