On September 30, PERFORM was present at the event MEDNIGHT 2022, the Mediterranean Night for Researchers, held at the Rectorate of the University of Messina.
In this session, Rosalba Passalacqua, Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina in Italy & Consortium INSTM UdR Messina (CASPE laboratory) gave a presentation about the project’s achievements to date.
Read MoreTNO, as PERFORM’s project coordinator and responsible for the system platform innovation, attended the Electrochemistry 2022 conference.
Held from September 27 to 30 in Berlin (Germany).
The conference, organised by the German Chemical Society, accepted the lecture entitled Scaling up electrochemical production of biobased maleic acid.
Read MoreRoman Latsuzbaia, Scientist at TNO, attended from September 12 to 16, the 73 edition of the International Society of Electrochemistry Conference, held in an online format.
Over there, Roman was in charge of showcasing the presentation Scaling up electrochemical production of biobased maleic acid, developing further part of the work carried out as part of PERFORM’s system platform innovation tasks.
Read MoreThe PERFORM consortium partners were able to finally meet in person again after two and a half years of the pandemic.
Hysytech as host member received the project members in Turin, Italy June 30 and July 1.
During those two days, all the organisations were able to present the advancement on their different tasks: feedstock platform analyses, electrode and system platform Innovation, techno-economic and market analyses and exploitation.
Likewise, three technical workshops were organised addressing intellectual property management, the platform’s innovation and pilots under development, as well as PERFORM’s process assessment.
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Read MoreOn June 9, PERFORM attended the PROCESSES4PLANET FORUM, held by ASPIRE2050 in Brussels (Belgium).
On behalf of the project, Erwin Giling, Project Manager at TNO and Coordinator of PERFORM was in charge of presenting the project outputs to the ASPIRE community highlighting its contribution to the Processes4Planet ambitions of climate neutrality, circularity, and competitiveness of the process industry.
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From May 30 to June 3, PERFORM attended the Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management IFAT 2022 held in Munich (Germany).
On behalf of PERFORM, Hysytech, the partner responsible for the Power Platform demonstration within the project, presented a poster summarising their project R&D portfolio, including PERFORM.
You can check the poster here.
Read MoreStefano Alini, CEO, Innovation and Research Director at Radici InNova, showcased how the PERFORM Stefano Alini, CEO, Innovation and Research Director at Radici InNova, showcased how the PERFORM project can contribute to achieving the ESG (environmental, societal, governance) goals of companies, as part of the conference L’approccio ESG come strategia d’impresa held in Novara (Italy) on February 10, 2022.
Stefano opened his speech by presenting the Sustainability Report 2020 from RadiciGroup and emphasised that circular economy cannot be done alone, but with the necessary involvement of the supply chain, institutions and other relevant stakeholders.
Read MoreA challenge for the chemical industry is the highly selective transformation of raw materials by electrochemistry from biomass into intermediates.
Demonstrating its feasibility is one of the objectives of the PERFORM project, focusing on specific investigations regarding targeted paired reactions such as glucose electro-oxidation to glucaric acid, a first step in the adipic acid electrochemical synthesis-
In this sense, Rosalba Passalacqua, Researcher at the University of Messina, presented a poster during the 13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and the 6th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology (ECCE-ECAB) on September 22 entitled NiFe Oxide Catalysts for Electro-Oxidation of Glucose.
In the poster, the preparation of nanostructured NiFe oxide catalysts (NiFeOx/NF), synthesized from nickel foam (NF), via layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets intermediates, as efficient catalysts for glucose (Glu) electrochemical oxidation were addressed.
ECCE and ECAB covered the whole range of relevant topics from laboratory research via process development and chemical reaction engineering to challenges from industrial practice and overarching topics such as quality management and education.
Rosalba was also the host of the Electrochemical section of the conference.
Read MoreThe PERFORM (PowER platFORM) initiative, a project funded under the European Commission Horizon 2020 SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resources) programme has been selected as a finalist for the EU Sustainable Energy Awards (EUSEW Awards) 2021 in the Innovation category, together with LIFE-DIADEME and RenOnBill.
Winners will be announced in an online awards ceremony, held on October 25 at 12 (CEST).
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