by Jan Harmsen | Dec 5, 2024 | News
Hydrogen produced from solar energy is the best energy carrier for heavy duty transport This point was made by Adri Huesman, principal hydrogen technologist of Shell. Adri presented his story at the Process Systems Engineering NL Winter Symposium at Institute for...
by Jan Harmsen | Nov 12, 2024 | News
Functional process steps can be used for rapid investment cost for start-up time estimations. In this article I explain the use of functional process steps. What are functional process steps? Functional process steps are the steps that fulfill a single function in a...
by Jan Harmsen | Sep 27, 2024 | News
Annelie Jongerius of Avantium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, presented the formation of the polymer PoLyGlyoxylic Acid (PLGA) from carbon dioxide. The presentation was part of a Sustainable Process Intensification Network (SPIN-NL) and TNO mini-symposium on...
by Jan Harmsen | Sep 4, 2024 | News
The CHISA conference I visited this August contained many lectures and posters contributing to Sustainable Development Goals. Here are my two highlights concerning waste polymer recycling: Waste polyolefins, polyethylene, and polypropylene, used in textiles, can be...
by Jan Harmsen | Aug 13, 2024 | Events & Congresses, News
Chemical Reaction Engineering is a central course in any chemical engineering curriculum. It is however, considered by many students as a subject hard to master. A main obstacle for the students is the use of differential equations to describe phenomena about...
by Jan Harmsen | Jun 4, 2024 | News
‘Product and Process Design: Driving Sustainable Innovation’ has been renewed, the second edition is up for sale now (in paperback and digital form) at De Gruyter. Thise second edition contains examples and exercises, so that it can be used as a textbook...
