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The EU and the circular economy
Last December the European Commission presented the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy. Secretary of the Environment of The Netherlands, Sharon Dijksma, gave a guest lecture at the University of Utrecht on 6 June on this subject.
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DC Tech – Duurzame Chemische Technologie
Om te overleven heeft de Nederlandse Proces Industrie niet alleen post-docs nodig, maar vooral ook goed opgeleide proces operators. Het Drenthe College en de regio Emmen gaan hier iets aan doen
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Delft Nobel Evening Lecture online
Recently there has been a Nobel lecture in Delft.
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Green for profit
‘Everybody knows’ that power plants – especially the coal-fired ones – are notorious producers of CO2. Less well known is the fact that the production of ethylene glycol (a raw material of for instance PET) scores pretty high in this department too.
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The other variability
In the debate over the (in)ability to square supply of renewable energy with demand, everybody points at the vagaries of the wind and the day-and-night rhythm of solar energy. But what about sudden spikes in demand? In the US that is caused by air-conditioning.
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Van ‘t Hoff and Cyanobacteria
The annual Jacobus Van ‘t Hoff lecture, organized by the TU Delft Process Technology Institute took place on June 20. This year’s speaker was Ronald R. Chance (Algenol Biotech and Georgia Institute of Technology), whose lecture was titled ‘Carbon Capture and Utilization in Algae-Based Biofuel Production‘.
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BOOM!!…..What happened?
Marion den Hollander explained just what did happen in Moerdijk on the 3rd of June 2014. At the annual meeting of NPT on 25 May the Principal Technical Safety Engineer of Shell gave a frank exposé of the history of the explosion at the SMPO plant.
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First issue of carbon credits from Intersleek technology
Ships are notorious polluters of the atmosphere. Once outside territorial waters they burn the cheapest (read: dirtiest) fuel. Reducing the drag of the ship reduces the fuel consumption (and the pollution).
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Issue 03/2016 bioplastics magazine
A new issue of the bioplastics magazine is finished. This magazine is dedicated to bioplastics.
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'Green’ steel (2)
Why stop at Hisarna? Let your imagination run wild! Add on two more new processes (one is actually not all that new anymore) and do away with carbon altogether!