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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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DES: a nature-based, renewable pulping technology
Completed

PRIDES: Deep Eutectic Solvents in the Paper Industry

The European project cluster aims to approach 80% CO2 emission reduction in the lignocellulose processing chain.

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Methanol, the LOGIC Choice!
Completed

Methanol, the LOGIC Choice!

The LOGIC project scales-up the Liquid-Out Gas-In Concept reactor for methanol synthesis from CO2 and sustainable hydrogen.

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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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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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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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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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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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ReBBloCS - riwald recycling

Renewable Building Blocks from Complex and wet waste Streams (ReBBloCS)

The ReBBloCS project aims to develop new circular value chains for the valorisation of complex and mixed waste streams into valuable chemical products.

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Nanofiltration membranes

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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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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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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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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Odysseus

Odysseus

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

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ZERO BRINE PROJECT
Completed

ZERO BRINE

The ZERO BRINE project combines technologies to recover products of high quality and sufficient purity from brine.

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Completed

Preciouspitation

Obtaining process water out of rain from own roof with high energy saving potential compared to current processes. Motivation and Scope Rainwater is already chemically very pure. Only some evaporated...

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Cell-U-Value

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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ReCoVR

ReCoVR – Recovery and Circularity of Valuable Resources

ReCoVR designs and develops novel functional materials and technologies to selectively recover high-value molecules.

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TENMIP - Testing and evaluation of nanofiltration membranes in industrial processes
Completed

TENMIP – Testing and evaluation of nanofiltration membranes in industrial processes

Make very tight, low swelling NF or RO membranes for organic solvents, test them in process mixtures as present in industry and demonstrate / evaluate their economic feasibility on small...

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BEAP – Bundled Early Adaptor Project

BEAP helps SMEs make contact with industries, localize and develop their technologies to suite the specific needs of Dutch industrial partners.

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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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FOMM - Forward Osmosis Membrane and Module development

FOMM – Forward Osmosis Membrane and Module development

Forward osmosis (FO) is a technology recently developed on academic level, with very few example applications in the market, despite its strong benefits. FO is an energy efficient and effective...

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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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TREPS deals with the removal of traces to keep a circularity loop clean

TREPS – Trace Removal Using Electrically Powered Separations

In a circular economy, traces need to be removed to keep the loop clean. TREPS deals with trace removal using electricity.

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