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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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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...

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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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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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TENMIP - Testing and evaluation of nanofiltration membranes in industrial processes
Completed

TENMIP – Testing and evaluation of nanofiltration membranes in industrial processes

Make very tight, low swelling NF or RO membranes for organic solvents, test them in process mixtures as present in industry and demonstrate / evaluate their economic feasibility on small...

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ReSolve: reuse of industrial solvent process streams

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.

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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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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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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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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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Electrified – Electrically driven non-thermal dewatering of biomass

The aim of the Electrified project is to establish new technologies for future key technologies for biomass dewatering.

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The Dutch climate agreement on industry
Completed

INSPEC – Integrating sensor based process monitoring and advanced process control

INSPEC quantitatively integrates information from state-of-the-art Process Analytical Technology, process measurements and dynamic process models (data driven or physics-based) into Advanced Process Control. This will induce a step-change with respect to...

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DISCO: lower the material use and increase the energy-efficiency
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.

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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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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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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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safety project
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...

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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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ENCORE – nExt geNeration COmpRession hEat pump

This project demonstrates the enhancement of compression heat pump performance by using a pilot scale test unit.

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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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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.

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SCISSORS
Completed

Scissors – Super Critical Industrial Solution for Suspended Organic Residual Streams

Scissors researches the processing of specific wet waste streams through the potential of super critical water (SCW) technology.

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HP4INDUSTRY – Enhance collaboration between industry and heat pump stakeholders

The HP4INDUSTRY project pairs ambitious climate targets with concrete, replicable process integrated solutions for industrial heating and cooling, enabling cleaner, competitive manufacturing for Europe’s future.

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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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