The Heat Is On
The Heat is On aims to make processes for dewatering, drying and heat integration more efficient.
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.
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...
Completed
Carbon Transition Model
The Carbon Transition Model is a simulation model to explore ways to reduce emissions and increase carbon circularity.
COMTA – COMpact modular Thermo Acoustic heat pump
To further develop the compact electrically driven thermoacoustic heat (TA) pump technology and to prepare for technical demonstration on full scale. The industry is a large consumer of energy and...
Completed
Towards improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging
This project aims at improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging materials through overcoming technological hurdles.
Completed
C2V – Carbon2Value
Innovative CO2 separation technology aims to reduce emissions in steel industry. This project revolves around an innovative technology with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions across the major energy intensive...
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.
Completed
HyScaling – Making better electrolyzers in a better way
HyScaling aims to scale electrolysis capacity up to 5GW by 2030 so the Netherlands can play a key role in the global green hydrogen economy.
EPRoTrans – Energy reduction technologies enabling PRotein Transition
Project Energy Efficient Protein Transition (EProTrans) investigates the processing of several mixed plant-based streams to produce plant-based proteins.
Completed
PINcHED – Process INtegrated HEat pump Drying
This project creates greenfield conceptual design packages for contact and convective drying of a full scale. In addition, it focuses on establishing a fully heat pump integrated drying process, including...
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...
Completed
Probiotics – Low energy living bacterial food formulations
Research towards a novel and generic strategy for probiotics in low energy living bacterial food formulations
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...
Odysseus
Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.
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.
DRAGONS Egg – Increasing energy efficiency by steering DRoplet AGglomeratiON in Spray dryers
The DRAGONS Egg-project aims to unravel the dynamics of atomisation behaviour in drying and agglomeration of the droplet.
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
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...
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.
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...
Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center
This project covers the design, realization and exploration of the Hydrohub MegaWatt Test Center at the Zernike Campus in Groningen.
Completed
Engender: Compact Energy Efficient Dryer
Engender works on an energy efficient drying method of foods. Expected energy savings are estimated up to 30%.
Completed
Smart Maintenance Skillslab
In a Smart Maintenance Skillslab industry and educational institutions can collaborate on new forms of education to solve shortage on the labor market.