Technical audit experiences
Here is some information on three of my technical audit experiences for companies. These three audits cover the innovation trajectory from idea to commercial scale implementation. One audit was on a project in the...
Harmsen Consultancy Sustainable Process Innovation
Industrial and Urban Symbiosis – a Missing Link in the Sustainability Discourse?
Mats Eklund, Professor Environmental Technology and Management at Linköping University, gave a very informative lecture about industrial and urban symbiosis. He gave this lecture as part of a masterclass organised by the Paper and...
Emission-Free Inland Shipping Obtained by Cooporation
Guido Frenken CCO of ENGIE presented Balancing Technological Advancements, Leadership and Societal Stress Towards a Sustainable Society. He presented this in the one-day symposium, ‘The Challenges of Electrification’ on the 4th of March 2021,...
10 years of Harmsen Consultancy – a Summary of 2010 -2020
My independent consultancy started in 2010. At that time I was part-time professor sustainable chemical technology at Groningen University. Together with Gerald Jonker we provided a course Sustainable Design for which we also wrote...
Green Hydrogen Plant Design and Cost
Thijs de Groot of Nouryon presented a complete plant design and cost to produce hydrogen from (renewable) electricity at 1 Gigawatt scale. Thijs presented this result at a webinar for over 200 participants, organized...
Jan Harmsen’s Summary of 2020
2020 was strange, but also interesting. Plans were made, altered and cancelled. A lot of events and courses were cancelled or moved, or held online. But my year was also filled with new clients...
Chemicals from Biomass
Chemicals can be produced in various ways from woody biomass. Arthur Janse of DSM presented BIOFOREVER consortium results. Arthur’s presentation was part of a virtual NLGUTS event 25th of November 2020. This consortium evaluated...
Online seminar on Process Intensification on Dec 2, 2020
The European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) is organising a series of free virtual spotlight talks on significant topics in Chemical Engineering. Their technical groups are delivering short sessions of three or four talks...
Online courses in 2021
The Coronavirus outbreak has shifted our priorities and the way we work. I find that online courses are a great way to keep learning, even in the comfort of your (and my) own safe...
Free Chemical Engineering online webinar September 3rd
CHISA are launching a series of free chemical engineering online seminars starting September 3rd, 2020. The main intention of this series is the promotion of the European chemical engineering science under the current difficult situation. The first of...