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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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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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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.

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Freeze concentration
Completed

FreezeCon – Freeze Concentration

Saving energy, improving product quality with freeze concentration as economically feasible bulk dewatering technology. Background Several technologies are available for liquid concentration in the food industry, the most common being...

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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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RFS - Radio Frequent Sterilization
Completed

RFS – Radio Frequent Sterilization

Heating with Radio Frequent Sterilization (RFS) has large advantages for the product quality.

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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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RePlaCE – Recycling of Plastics from Cars and Electronic Equipment

In this project we accelerate recycling of high‑quality engineering plastics from cars and electronic equipment.

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Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center

This project covers the design, realization and exploration of the Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center at the Zernike Campus in Groningen.

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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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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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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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Model development for conductive thin film drying process
Completed

Thin Film Drying

A part of the drying and dewattering program with Thin Film Drying as a new technology for product quality and energy consumption

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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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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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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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CRUISE - Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps
Completed

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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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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Hydrohub Megawatt Test Center
Completed

ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL for dynamic operation of a large-scale test electrolyser

In this project we will researching and modelling the impact of variable operation on large-scale test electrolyser performance in green hydrogen.

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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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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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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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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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STARBATCH- Sodium Tetra chloro Aluminate Recyclable BATtery CHemicals

Storage of electricity will play a major role in the energy transition. Lithium-based batteries are now being produced on a large scale, but require expensive resources that are not widely...

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