
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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

ENCORE – nExt geNeration COmpRession hEat pump
This project demonstrates the enhancement of compression heat pump performance by using a pilot scale test unit.

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.

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.

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...

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.

GAMBA – Green Alloys Modelling Better Approaches
The GAMBA project seeks to reduce the carbon footprint of the iron and steel industry by transitioning from natural gas to hydrogen-based direct reduction (DRI) processes.

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....

Completed
MPPS – Multipurpose Plastic Sorting
This project focuses on radically innovating the way we address mechanical sorting of plastic waste.

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.

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...

PlastiCycle 4.0 – Revolutionizing smart formulation in mechanical recycling for closing the circular value chain
Transforming plastic waste into high-quality recycled plastics. Discover how PlastiCycle 4.0 is revolutionizing mechanical recycling.

Completed
e-Missi0n MOOI
e-Missi0n developed two technological routes for the emission free production of low-carbon olefins.

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...

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...

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?

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