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...
by Jan Harmsen | May 31, 2024 | News
I have been discussing real-world applications of process intensification in the 4th installment of the ‘Sustainability in Action’ webinar series from Elsevier. A key takeaway: “Engineers play a key role in getting the sustainable development goals into...
by Jan Harmsen | May 10, 2024 | News, Publications
My article about Process Intensification has been published in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. You can read the entire article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.koe00067
