ENCORE – nExt geNeration COmpRession hEat pump
This project demonstrates the enhancement of compression heat pump performance by using a pilot scale test unit.
Completed
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?
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...
ELSA – Electrically Switchable Affinity Separation Processes
Exploring the advantages of Electrically Switchable Adsorption (ELSA) membranes in the industrial separation process.
MPPS – Multipurpose Plastic Sorting
This project focuses on radically innovating the way we address mechanical sorting of plastic waste.
Completed
Biorefinery Program
Biorefinery enables the production of healthy ingredients and the recovery of valuable components (i.e. proteins) out of process streams.
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...
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...
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...
Odysseus
Goal of this project is to develop a library of complementary techniques for concentrating brines beyond reverse osmosis.
New
Ammonia to Power
The Ammonia to Power project explores the techno-economic potential of ammonia powered electricity generation.
SUNSOLr: Electrification of Chemical Conversions
The SUNSOLr project is dedicated to developing technologies for the direct electrification of chemical conversions, focusing on CO2 and H2O/H2 to produce chemicals like CO, CH4, olefins, and methanol.
Completed
IMPROVISE – Improved process operation via rigorous simulation models
Improved daily operations of important chemical processes in the Dutch chemical industry through operation technology based on detailed physical models. Incentive Being able to anticipate what a chemical process is...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Completed
Probiotics – Low energy living bacterial food formulations
Research towards a novel and generic strategy for probiotics in low energy living bacterial food formulations
Completed
GreenWedge
The GreenWedge project helps SMEs actively market their sustainable technology.
ReValue – Recovery of Valuable minerals with hybrid ceramic membrane crystallization
The ReValue project explores the potential of membrane crystallization, a promising technology to recover valuable compounds from aqueous streams.
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.
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.
The Heat Is On
The Heat is On aims to make processes for dewatering, drying and heat integration more efficient.
LESSON – Oil free compressor for ammonia based high temperature heat pumps
Wet compression allows for close to isothermal conditions during compression resulting in higher compression isentropic efficiencies. It further prevents operation in the superheating zone of the working fluids of heat...