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SUPP - Steel Slag Upgrading and PCC Production
Completed

SUPP – Steel Slag Upgrading and PCC Production

The aim of the SUPP project is to create one combined and integrated robust batch process in order to stabilize and upgrade steel slag and neutralize hydrochloric acid. In addition, it...

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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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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...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Carbon Transition Model: better grip on emissions
Completed

Carbon Transition Model

The Carbon Transition Model is a simulation model to explore ways to reduce emissions and increase carbon circularity.

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COSMOS - Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes on low cost ceramic supports
Completed

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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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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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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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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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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Odysseus

Odysseus

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

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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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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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Steel2Chemicals: a circular carbon chain
Completed

S2C – Steel2Chemicals

The project Steel2Chemicals develops a closed value chain in which CO from steel production is used as feedstock for the chemical industry.

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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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CareFree Models for real-time decision-making

Carefree Models puts process model maintenance, adaptation and transfer into an integrated, automated, and predictive framework that quantifies and reduces the overall resources required to sustain process predictivity and resulting...

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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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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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