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| Major grant boost for new field of cellular agriculture |
On 21 October 2022, a €60 million government grant was awarded to an ambitious proposal around cellular agriculture, a young field that aims to produce animal products such as meat and proteins directly from animal cells and micro-organisms. This financial support - the largest ever by a national government for cellular agriculture - comes from the National Growth Fund.
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| Making salt water fresh on Lampedusa |
| In November and December 2022, a large-scale demo plant on Lampedusa produced drinking water, salts and chemicals from seawater in an environmentally friendly way. Project leader Dimitris Xevgenos says: "This was the first time we produced these marketable products on a pre-commercial scale in Europe together with the right actors, including the use of waste heat. |
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| Microfluidic Synthesis of Hydrogel Microparticles with Superparamagnetic Colloids Embedded at Prescribed Positions for Anticounterfeiting Applications |
| Globalization has enabled unprecedented ease of access to products for consumers. However, this ease of access has also exposed consumers to an alarming number of counterfeit products. This is especially worrisome when the products targeted are vaccines, antibiotics, and other life-saving commodities. In a collaboration between TU Delft & ETH, Switzerland, Mengmeng Zhang, Dr.Eral and colleagues produced hydrogel microparticles with magnetic properties to fight counterfeiting. |
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| A note on the modelling of lubrication forces in unresolved simulations |
| Lubrication forces and direct overlap forces between particles in a fluid can be effectively and accurately simulated in "unresolved" CFD-DEM simulations. This enables much more accurate predictions for process equipment such as expanded bed adsorbers and liquid-solid fluidised beds. |
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| Electric technology to save energy in drying processes |
| Current drying processes to make paper or milk powder, for example, use air or steam and are therefore energy-intensive. Scientists from TU Delft and four other Dutch universities therefore work together in the ELECTRIFIED project to save energy in drying processes. and receive funding from the NWO Key Technologies programme to do so. |
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| Dr Othon Moultos recipient of the Young Researcher Award for the PPEPPD 2023 edition. |
The PPEPPD (Property and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design) conference provides an effective forum for academic and industrial researchers to meet and communicate on the status and future trends in properties and phase equilibria, important for product or process design. Thermodynamics is the main source of inspiration. The Young Researcher Award honours early and mid-career researchers under the age of 40 who have made significant contributions in these fields, and this is the second edition of the award.
Dr Moultos will receive the award in May 2023 in Taragona Spain, where he will deliver a plenary address. |
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| Process Technology for non-Process Technologists 2023 |
Are you active in the process industry, but lacking a process-technological background? Come and join this Pro2Tech-course. The course is specifically aimed at non-Process Technologists like you working in the product and process industries for e.g. pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, base chemicals, petrochemical, food, bio, pulp/paper, fuels, advanced materials and watertreatment.
April 12 - 14, 2023 |
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