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.
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...
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.
Completed
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....
Odysseus
Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.
InReP – An Integrated approach towards Recycling of Plastics
Recycling plastics is one of the biggest challenges the industry is facing today. This projects aims to overcome current challenges.
Completed
ISRO – Implementation of Solvent Recovery in edible Oil
The ISRO project delivers a proof-of-principle of organic solvent nanofiltration-based solvent recovery for two cases. The first case is an integration of OSN with the current distillation process at IOI...
Completed
H2-Safety2 – Safety Standardisation of Green Hydrogen Electrolyser Systems
This hydrogen safety project aimed to develop recommendations for standardisation, meeting process safety requirements for large scale water electrolysis. This is an important step to enable a safe, integrated hydrogen-based...
Completed
Provides
The Provides initiative aims to make the paper industry more sustainable by developing Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES).
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.
Completed
RFS2 – Radio Frequent Sterilization 2
The project Radio Frequent Sterizilation 2 (RFS2) is focused on the development of RF in-pack sterilization of foods. The project is a continuation of the JIP-project Radio Frequent Sterilization (RFS)...
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
StAgglop: Reducing energy use and material loss by better control of agglomeration during spray drying
Project stAgglop aims to improve agglomeration control to contribute to the reduction of emissions for industrial drying systems.
Flexible Efficient Electrification of Industrial Heat Cases
This project will develop innovative process designs solving the efficient flexible electrification challenge.
Completed
Biorefinery Program
Biorefinery enables the production of healthy ingredients and the recovery of valuable components (i.e. proteins) out of process streams.
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...
Completed
FreezeCon – Freeze Concentration
Saving energy, improving product quality with freeze concentration as economically feasible bulk dewatering technology. Background Several technologies are available for liquid concentration in the food industry, the most common being...
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.
Completed
PTTP – Process Technology Talent Program
PTTP was a talent program for promising HBO students who aim to drive sustainability in the process technology.
ELSA – Electrically Switchable Affinity Separation Processes
Exploring the advantages of Electrically Switchable Adsorption (ELSA) membranes in the industrial separation process.
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.
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.
Completed
COMPACT – Pulsed Compression II
The goal of this project was to produce ethylene from methane using pulsed compression technology and to determine the feasibility for industrial applications.
Completed
WeCare – We Create Awareness & Reduce Energy
The WeCARE project demonstrated the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence technology of EnergQ at a selected number of end users. EnerGQ’s self-learning energy management technology unveiled the excessive energy consumption and with that...