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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,...
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.
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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.
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.
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E3C – Electrons to Close the Carbon Cycle
Development and evaluation of tubular and flat porous electrodes for the electrochemical conversion of gasses at ambient temperature. Motivation Renewable electricity (RE) generation is currently growing at a rapid pace....
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RFS – Radio Frequent Sterilization
Heating with Radio Frequent Sterilization (RFS) has large advantages for the product quality.
Fingerprint 2 Footprint
Fingerprint 2 Footprint translates chemical fingerprint measurements inside and near chemical processes to reduce environmental footprints, while retaining or improving process economy and consistency.
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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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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?
PROVE IT
PROVE IT is all about the technical feasibility of the production of methanol from CO2 waste gas.
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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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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...
Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center
This project covers the design, realization and exploration of the Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center at the Zernike Campus in Groningen.
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.
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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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.
Completed
HOPy – Headstart on pyrolysis
HOPy wants to find a solution that mitigates the environmental impact of plastic waste and taps into its potential as a resource for creating new materials.
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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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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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AIDA – Accelerate the Integration of Digitalisation Acceptation
The AIDA project performs research towards predictive capabilities and integration of digital technologies at the various levels of individual processes.
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...
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...
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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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