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PERFORM, a face-to-face meeting after two and a half years

The 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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PERFORM at the PROCESSES4PLANET FORUM

On 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.

PERFORM at IFAT 2022

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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.

PERFORM, showcased to secondary school students

On February 7, Rosalba Passalacqua, Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina in Italy & Consortium INSTM UdR Messina (CASPE laboratory) gave a presentation on the Electrification of the chemical industry to the students at the secondary school Liceo Leonardo da Vinci located in Reggio Calabria.

As part of the online seminar within the activity of Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation, PERFORM was showcased as case example.

You can check here the full presentation (Italian).

RADICI GROUP PRESENTS PERFORM AT THE CONFERENCE L’APPROCCIO ESG COME STRATEGIA D’IMPRESA

Stefano 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.

PERFORM, nominated to the EU Sustainable Energy Awards in the category of Innovation

PERFORM (PowER platFORM) was selected as a finalist for the EU Sustainable Energy Awards (EUSEW Awards) 2021 in the Innovation category, together with LIFE-DIADEME and RenOnBill.

Winners were announced in an online awards ceremony, held on October 25 at 12 (CEST) and finally it was LIFE-DIADEME who took the prize.

The EU Sustainable Energy Awards recognise outstanding individuals and projects for their innovation in energy efficiency and renewable solutions. Finalists are chosen from a shortlist of the year’s most successful projects for clean, secure, and efficient energy.

In concrete, the Innovation category recognises outstanding EU-funded activities that show an original and innovative path toward the clean energy transition.

Prizes are divided into four categories (engagement, innovation, woman in energy, young energy trailblazer) and awarded by an expert jury and by European citizens via a public vote.

ECCE & ECAB 2021: PERFORM presents the poster NiFe Oxide Catalysts for Electro-Oxidation of Glucose

A 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.

PERFORM, nominated to the EU Sustainable Energy Awards in the category of Innovation

The 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).

PERFORM, present at CIS 2021

On September 8, the Chemistry meets Industry and Society Congress (CIS 2021), hosted a conference by Gabriele Centi, Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC).