e-Refinery Centre
Research Themes: Energy, Chemistry, Bio-process technology
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Summary of the project
The e-Refinery Institute combines researchers from across the university to work on developing processes and devices to produce fuels and base chemicals from water, air and electricity without the use of fossil resources. For these processes and devices to replace the current operations, they have to be demonstrated at a relevant scale. The e-Refinery Centre is going to be a place where researchers investigate the scaling of various new processes under relevant scale and conditions - for instance for the renewable production of ethylene; one of the main components for the production of plastics.
What's next?
Through the realization of a e-Refinery Centre the researchers can learn to, experiment and gather new knowledge about how e-refinery installations, set-ups and processes are to be scaled. This Centre will facilitate many innovative ideas to bridge the so called valley of death and reaching the demonstration phase instead of doing only simulations that show that it can work on a bigger scale.
Contribution to the Energy transition?
The e-Refinery Centre will contribute to the transition as it is expected to accelerate innovation of current industrial processes. Process that currently require fossil resources will be replaced by e-refinery processed and tools making our industry more sustainable.
dr. ir. Lindert van Biert
dr. T.E. Burdyny
prof. dr. H. Geerlings
dr. p.b. Groszewicz
prof. dr. A.E.M. Huesman
dr. G. Korevaar
dr. J.W.R. Peeters
prof. dr. A. Ramirez Ramirez
dr. R.M. Stikkelman
dr. M van Veen
prof. dr. M. Zeman
ir. John Nijenhuis
dr. H.B. Eral
prof. E.L.V. Goetheer
dr. R.M. Hartkamp
prof. dr. W de Jong
prof. dr. F. Mulder
dr. M.D.M. Perez-Fortes
Prof. dr. G. Reiniers
dr. A J.J. Straathof
dr. D.A. Vermaas
dr. ing. MJ van Bracht
dr. A. Gangoli Rao
dr. Y. Gonzales Garcia
dr. ir. J.W. Haverkort
dr. L. Jourdin
prof. dr. J.R. van Ommen
prof. dr. Pidko
dr. A.H.M. Smets
dr. P. Taheri
prof. dr. T.J.H Vlugt
dr. I. Buijnsters
dr. V. Garbin
Prof. em. J. Grievink
prof. dr. F. Hollmann
prof.dr. A.A. Kiss
prof. dr. J.T. Padding
dr. M Ramdin
dr. V. van Steijn
prof. dr. A. Urakawa
prof. dr. Westerweel
Faculties involved
- AS
- EEMCS
- 3ME
- TPM
- AE