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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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Advanced Carbohydrates Biorefinery: From Waste to Value

Every year, large amounts of tertiary cellulose end up being incinerated. This results in unnecessary CO₂ emissions and loss of valuable material. The ACB project develops an alternative route: one...

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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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PoSiMem

PoSiMem – Periodic organosilica nanofiltration membranes

This project aims to develop robust, reproducible and easy to scale-up approaches for the production of novel nanofiltration (NF) membranes.

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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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Completed

ERGO – Energy Reduction by Condition-based Monitoring

Unlocking energy efficiency and fault detection with electrical signal analysis Electric motors and rotating equipment—such as pumps, fans, compressors, and conveyors—consume over 40% of global electricity. However, nearly one-third of...

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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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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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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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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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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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FlexPower: Accelerating industrial electrification for a CO2-neutral future

Industrial electrification is key to achieving the Netherlands’ goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 60% by 2030 and becoming climate-neutral by 2050. The FlexPower project focuses on flexible and efficient...

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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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COSMOS - Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes on low cost ceramic supports

COSMOS – Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes on low cost ceramic supports

The COSMOS-project found that membrane technology has the potential to replace or supplement current inefficient distillation processes.

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Ammomnia Pipeline Safety
Completed

Ammonia Pipeline Safety

The Clean Ammonia Platform is doing a study on safety design and risk impact of ammonia pipelines to explore ways to safely transport large volumes of ammonia by pipeline in...

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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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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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CRUISE - Cost Reduction Industrial Heatpumps

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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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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Odysseus

Odysseus

Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.

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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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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...

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Multipurpose plastic sorting

MPPS – Multipurpose Plastic Sorting

This project focuses on radically innovating the way we address mechanical sorting of plastic waste.

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Completed

IoF – Internet of Food

The Internet of Food (IoF) project defines the sharing of data and models in order to improve sensing systems in food production.

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ISPT is the leading institute for open innovation in the process industry. At the heart of our efforts is the transition towards a CO2-neutral, circular economy in 2050.


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