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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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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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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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Completed

LEMPLAR – Losses & Emissions in Plastic Recycling

The plastic recycling process today has losses and emissions, such as microplastics, inks and incorrectly sorted plastics. This prevents us of closing the plastic cycle.

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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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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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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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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.

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Bio-based plastics
Completed

BRECSIT – Bio-based REsin CompoSIte Technologies

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

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Fine Biofuels
Completed

Fine Biofuels

In the Netherlands there is a total quantity of 1 million tons of roadside grass which must be mowed at least twice a year to keep the roadside banks safe....

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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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recycling plastics
Completed

InReP – An Integrated approach towards Recycling of Plastics

Recycling plastics is one of the biggest challenges the industry is facing today. This projects aims to overcome current challenges.

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Completed

ReCYCLE – Electrical bike with durable circular plastic parts

ReCYCLE is a cutting-edge project that combines electric bikes with durable circular plastic parts, pushing the boundaries of innovation in sustainability.

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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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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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Batteries
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LiSa – Lithium refining via Salt-Assisted Crystallization  

The LiSa project is developing a smart and energy-efficient method for refining and recycling lithium.

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Aramazing

Aramazing

Aramids hold untapped potential in the journey towards sustainability. We can transform these once-disposed materials into a circular value chain, reducing waste, and striving for CO2 neutrality.

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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.

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ISRO - Implementation of Solvent Recovery in edible Oil
Completed

ISRO – Implementation of Solvent Recovery in edible Oil

The ISRO project delivers a proof-of-principle of organic solvent nanofiltration-based solvent recovery for two cases. The first case is an integration of OSN with the current distillation process at IOI...

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CMF - Controlling Multiphase Flow
Completed

CMF – Controlling Multiphase Flow

This Industrial Partnership Programme aims at understanding the rheology of complex emulsions and their stability under flow. While there is much empirical knowledge about emulsion rheology and stability, the microscopic...

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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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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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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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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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