Vocabulary Sustainable Design of processes and products
"Sustainable development is not a fixed state of harmony, but a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as...
Vocabulary Process Scale-up
I give courses on process scale-up. In these courses always questions arise about the meaning of terms. Here are some definitions of terms and also alternative definitions. The general advice is always to ask further explanation if terms below are used. Scale-up is...
Conferences and courses on Sustainable Process and Product Innovation and Design in 2022
Conferences for 2022 are live events again. Below is my list, updated 6th of September 2021. Conferences International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA Prague, 2022. This conference covers all area of chemical engineering, and always...
Project auditing experiences of Jan Harmsen
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 early concept stage, one audit was on a project in the...
Industrial Process Scale-up Courses are hot
Since August 2020 I have given 2 scale-up courses for in total over 60 participants, all from industry. I also received requests from clients, via Symmetric, to provide inhouse scale-up courses. For the third course, due 24-26 November 2021 participant already write...
Project auditing experiences of Jan Harmsen
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 early concept stage, one audit was on a project in the...
Industrial and Urban Symbiosis – a missing link in the sustainability discourse?
Mats Eklund, Professor, Environmental Technology and Management, Linköping University, gave a very informative lecture about industrial and urban symbiosis. He showed many examples of successful symbiosis projects in Sweden, where agriculture, municipalities, and...
Emission free inland shipping obtained by corporation
Guido Frenken CCO of ENGIE presented Balancing Technological Advancements, Leadership and Societal Stress towards a Sustainable Society. He stressed that cooperation between partners was key to successful innovations. He showed such successful cooperation to obtain an...
Masterclass Solvent developments for solvent-based fluid separations
Solvent developments for solvent-based fluid separations Biobased solvents, ionic liquids and deep eutectic systems by prof.dr.ir. Boelo Schuur, University of Twente Thursday February 18th 2021 Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) Nederlandse...
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. The plant design consists of transformators, an alkaline water electrolysis system, gas-liquid separators, and compressors. The...
Congresses and courses Sustainable Process and Product Innovation and Design
Period January 2021 - September 2022 For newsletter and agenda website Harmsen Consultancy BV Several congresses and courses for 2021 have been changed into virtual online events or postponed. Here is a list, updated 6th of Jan. 2021. My experiences so far with online...