Kevin Van Geem (UGENT), coordinator of IMPROOF, will give a talk for the European Federation of Chemical Engineering on 26 November (10h30-11h30) on the Electrification of the chemical industry. The exchanges will cover the benefits of applying industrial innovation practices and the many applications of electrification and process intensification in process industries.
Detailed programme and free registration:
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The IMPROOF consortium is pleased to announce the IMPROOF workshop that will be held at Houston (USA) on Sunday 16 August 2020 online, connected to the 2020 Spring Meeting and 16th Global Congress on Process Safety.
Registration is open for all stakeholders from both industry and academia. Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required on :
We will share to the registered people the link to access to the webinar later on . The link will be available until 19th august, 2020.Read more
Dow is organizing an Open Day with regards to the optimization of steam cracking furnaces. Therefore we are sharing with you an invitation to visit us at an Open Day event on January 29 in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
During the event, we will feature a newly expanded portfolio of innovative studies to meet future industry requirements in terms of energy optimization and CO2 emissions. We are presenting the developments of the EU funded IMPROOF project.
Experts from European Universities and leading technology developers will present their contributions towards the future ethylene furnace. The experts will be present at the event to address your questions.
• Event opening from Jamie Cohen, Dow EMEA R&D Director
• Keynote presentation on the Chemical Industry under the 4th Industrial Revolution, Rafael Cayuela, Dow Chief Economist
• Overview of IMPROOF, G. Bellos and Prof. K. van Geem
• Lectures on biofuel firing kinetics, oxy-fuel combustion, high emissivity coatings, radiant coil technology advancements and low emission furnace design will be given by IMPROOF partners from Politecnico di Milano, John Zink, Cress BV, Gent University, Schmidt and Clemens, Technip and Dow
• Plant tour by bus
• Event closure
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The IMPROOF consortium is pleased to announce the two-day IMPROOF workshop that will be held on 27-28 January 2020 at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology in Ghent, Belgium. Registration is open for all stakeholders from both industry and academia. Participants can register for one or two days:
Day 1: Computational Fluid Dynamics assisted Process Intensification (27 January 2020)
Day 2: Novel Technologies in Steam Cracking Furnaces (28 January 2020)
Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required: : eventmanager.ugent.be/improofWorkshop
However, due to the limited capacity of the event, participants who register but fail to attend will be charged a no show fee of € 50 (except for valid reasons).
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