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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.

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Methanol, the LOGIC Choice!
Completed

Methanol, the LOGIC Choice!

The LOGIC project scales-up the Liquid-Out Gas-In Concept reactor for methanol synthesis from CO2 and sustainable hydrogen.

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IMPACCT - Improved process performance by process intensification in centrifugal contactors
Completed

IMPACCT – Improved process performance by process intensification in centrifugal contactors

Centrifugal contactors, such as RPBs, could provide significant improvement of separation processes in the chemical industry. This technology seems potentially suitable for replacing or debottlenecking current unit operations which suffer...

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Windmills
Completed

HyScaling – Making better electrolyzers in a better way

HyScaling aims to scale electrolysis capacity up to 5GW by 2030 so the Netherlands can play a key role in the global green hydrogen economy.

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Biorefinery Program
Completed

Biorefinery Program

Biorefinery enables the production of healthy ingredients and the recovery of valuable components (i.e. proteins) out of process streams.

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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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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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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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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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plasma conversion
Completed

Plasma Conversions

Industrial ammonia production is energy intensive and has a huge footprint. A plasma integrated water electrolyser provides an ecologically clean alternative process to Haber-Bosch.

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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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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...

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Circular recovery of ethanol

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.

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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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gigawatt hydrogen safety
Completed

H2-Safety2 – Safety Standardisation of Green Hydrogen Electrolyser Systems

This hydrogen safety project aimed to develop recommendations for standardisation, meeting process safety requirements for large scale water electrolysis. This is an important step to enable a safe, integrated hydrogen-based...

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Drying and Dewatering: reducing cost, improving quality

MilDeWat – Breakthrough Mild Dewatering Technologies

This project will enhance the implementation of mild (energy extensive) dewatering technologies to contribute to industry's energy reduction goals.

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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.

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Completed

WeCare – We Create Awareness & Reduce Energy

The WeCARE project demonstrated the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence technology of EnergQ at a selected number of end users. EnerGQ’s self-learning energy management technology unveiled the excessive energy consumption and with that...

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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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ELSA - Renewable energy

ELSA – Electrically Switchable Affinity Separation Processes

Exploring the advantages of Electrically Switchable Adsorption (ELSA) membranes in the industrial separation process.

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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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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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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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PolarASol – Polar Aqueous Solvents recycling

PolarASol develops a practical decision framework to help industry recycle polar solvents efficiently, even in the most complex aqueous streams.

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