
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,...

HP4INDUSTRY – Enhance collaboration between industry and heat pump stakeholders
The HP4INDUSTRY project pairs ambitious climate targets with concrete, replicable process integrated solutions for industrial heating and cooling, enabling cleaner, competitive manufacturing for Europe’s future.

Completed
Towards improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging
This project aims at improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging materials through overcoming technological hurdles.

Completed
Thin Film Drying
A part of the drying and dewattering program with Thin Film Drying as a new technology for product quality and energy consumption

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...

Completed
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
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.

Completed
GreenWedge
The GreenWedge project helps SMEs actively market their sustainable technology.

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
Next Level Solid Oxide Electrolysis
Solid Oxide Electrolysis is a technology with great potential for large-scale green hydrogen production by water electrolysis. This project explores the upscaling potential of SOEC.

Completed
Hydrohub GigaWatt Scale Electrolyser
We are an important step further towards a Dutch hydrogen economy: the design for an advanced green hydrogen plant at large scale.

Cascade Recyling of Plastic Film (CaRP)
The CaRP project will find and show realistic cascade recycling routes for packaging film waste to minimise the amount of plastic film waste that is incinerated and to maximise the...

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
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
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...

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.

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.

SEUSS – Saving Energy by Upcycling of Side Streams
The shift to plant‑based proteins demands smarter, cleaner processing. SEUSS develops new ways to reduce energy use and recover valuable resources from side streams. In Short Energy-related challenges The protein...

Completed
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...

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.

Completed
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...

Flexible Efficient Electrification of Industrial Heat Cases
This project will develop innovative process designs solving the efficient flexible electrification challenge.

Completed
Green Hydrogen Inherent Safety Practices on Large Industrial Scale
This project will develop a uniform safety approach and increase awareness of safety for industrial scale electrolysis plants.

RePlaCE – Recycling of Plastics from Cars and Electronic Equipment
In this project we accelerate recycling of high‑quality engineering plastics from cars and electronic equipment.