EIES22 – Dutch company Suncom Energy can produce concentrated solar heat for industry. Moreover, it also developed an affordable heat battery. Continuous supply of heat and power from solar energy thus seems a step closer. During Dragons’ Den of Transition (DDoT), the start-up is looking for industrial partners to make this more marketable.
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Oxylum, a spin-off from University of Antwerp, already produces formic acid from CO2 with a relatively small electrolyzer. And it can also produce other chemical building blocks. During the Dragons’ Den of Transition on November 30th at Chemelot, the company is looking for chain partners to scale up.
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The Netherlands – The new consortium Iron+ and brewery Swinkels are building a commercial power plant on iron powder. According to the initiators, the plant will have a “megawatt size” and will provide Swinkels with sustainable process heat for the next twenty years.
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We are looking for dragons and innovators for the 2nd Dragons’ Den of Transition (DDoT). During the closing of the European Industry and Energy Summit 2022 on November 30th, they can make deals to support interesting energy innovations.
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Belgium – Next years Ineos wil build an ethane cracker in the port of Antwerp. A multi-billion dollar investment the European chemical industry has not seen in decades. And despite all the criticism, it will be significantly cleaner than any other European cracker. And by the mid-thirties the cracker can be completely carbon neutral, project director John McNally expects.
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The Netherlands – ‘People are our raw material’, professor Bert Weckhuysen stated last week during EIES2021. As a professor at Utrecht University, he wants to educate people who are connective.’ They have to be connectors who are able to connect society, industry, us.’ Watch his talk.
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Germany/The Netherlands – ‘We are facing a huge transformation. We cannot do this on our own,’ Melanie Maas-Brunner stated last week in her opening talk at EIES2021. The CTO of chemical company BASF also thinks that a fundamental change in thinking is needed to achieve the climate goals. Watch the talk now.
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The Netherlands – ‘We are changing. But we have not been fast enough in taking steps in the right direction to improve the livability of our environment,’ CEO Hans van den Berg admitted at EIES2021 last week. Now watch his talk again.
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New measures form a new challenge, but it is still possible to organize EIES2021 both physically and online.
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During this side event at the European Industry & Energy Summit on December 7th, TKI Energie en Industrie will discuss this topic with society, industry, government, network operators and the environmental movement.
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