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CIRCPET circular PET tray
Completed

CIRCPET – Circular PET trays for perishable food applications

PET trays are currently difficult to recycle. How can we create a fully circular PET tray solution that meets market demands while minimizing environmental impact?

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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...

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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...

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DES-20-01
Completed

Provides

The Provides initiative aims to make the paper industry more sustainable by developing Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES).

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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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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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Veldboon in bloei

EPRoTrans – Energy reduction technologies enabling PRotein Transition

Project Energy Efficient Protein Transition (EProTrans) investigates the processing of several mixed plant-based streams to produce plant-based proteins.

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R-ACES – FRamework for Actual Cooperation on Energy on Sites and Parks

R-ACES aims to turn high-potential, high-impact industrial clusters into eco-regions with at least 10% reduction in emissions in smart energy.

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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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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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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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EAMS - Energy efficient Affinity-driven Molecular Separation
Completed

EAMS – Energy efficient Affinity-driven Molecular Separation

The aim of the EAMS project is to: Application New or improved affinity separation options for selected cases: extractive distillation and (reactive) liquid-liquid extraction.

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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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improved circularity
Completed

Towards improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging

This project aims at improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging materials through overcoming technological hurdles.

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Drying and agglomeration of the droplet

DRAGONS Egg – Increasing energy efficiency by steering DRoplet AGglomeratiON in Spray dryers

The DRAGONS Egg-project aims to unravel the dynamics of atomisation behaviour in drying and agglomeration of the droplet.

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Completed

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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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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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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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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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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High Flux 2D Nanosheet membranes
Completed

HF2N – High Flux 2D Nanosheet membranes

High Flux 2D Nanosheet membranes to demonstrate and validate the high potential of a new class of inorganic high flux 2D Nanosheet membranes on a practical scale

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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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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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Spray drying
Completed

Single Droplet Modelling

Multicomponent analysis of single droplet spray drying techniques and PhD research for the drying and dewatering program of ISPT.

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