Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Active and Isolated Rectifier unit for more electric aircraft: Design and Manufacturing of a 10KW AC-DC Converter Unit (AIR) (AIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 498371.4
EU funding (EUR): 309232.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

New challenges for the Active and Isolated Rectifier Units (High performance TRUs) to support the MEA concept are demanding deep changes compared with the conventional TRUs. INDRA and CEI-UPM, the consortium that is presenting this proposal, has a wide experience in the area of high performance TRUs for the new aircraft requirements The basic architecture that allows for these high performance TRUs has three stages: 1) EMI filter to meet the EMI standards, 2) Active Three-Phase rectifier to control the demanded sinusoidal current (THD and PFC) as well as control the output dc voltage (VBUS DC) and 3) isolated dc/dc converter that provides galvanic isolation, adapts the voltage and power to the specifications (28V) and it can be in charged of some control capabilities (battery charge mode, voltage source mode, current source mode, some protections). Within this project, this basic architecture will be considered and compared with the multiphase solution (several converters shifted and operating in parallel) as well as some active and isolated rectifiers proposed in the state of the art. For the isolated dc/dc stage, advanced topology solutions with soft transitions will be analysed since they allow to operate at higher frequencies, reducing the weight of the final unit. A topology recently proposed by UPM-CEI [18] is really appropriate for this application since it presents almost zero switching losses. A review of the state of the art has been done and the consortium is proposing to meet about 1.5kW/kg for the whole EMI + AC/DC + isolated DC/DC. This objective is based on the experience in previous project, and it is a goal beyond of the state of the art (about +20% or +25% higher power/weight ratio). It is doable thanks to the use of high frequencies combined with soft switching techniques. Besides, the use of new SiC and GaN semiconductors will be analysed and consider in the design since they allow for higher temperature operation as well as higher frequencies.

Keywords: more electrical aircraft,active rectifier units,transformer rectifier units,high power density,high frequency,zero voltage switching,total harmonic distorsion,power factor,emi filter
Development of welding technologies for light alloys aircraft structures (LIGHTWELD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199708.0
EU funding (EUR): 141861.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Riveting has been the state of the art of joining technology for aircraft structures since decades. The necessary overlap joint demands a large amount of material which restricts weight savings. Furthermore, the riveting process is quite intensive in process time. The LIGHTWELD project aims at developing and adapting LBW and RSW for newly developed more weldable light alloys with the objective of: - Reducing weight through replacing the use of vast amount of rivets - Enabling the automation of joining and NDT processes for decreasing process time The project addresses the comparison of novel welding and conventional riveting processes in terms of fatigue and corrosion performance as well as environmental impact and manufacturing cost enabling the advance towards lightweight and eco-efficiency objectives. Project specific goals are related to (1) development of robust and optimised LB, RS and FSS welding for the joining Al-Li and Mg, (2) Reduction of component weight between 5 and 10%, (3) Reduction of operation cost until 20%, (4) Corrosion resistance improvement for example by means of new joint designs, (5) Inspection time saving due to the possibility of automating that process, (6) Knowledge generation in the field of dissimilar joining of Al-Li and Mg alloys and (7) Fabrication cost saving compared to aero-structures made of composite materials. The singular characteristics of the materials to be welded and weldability problems related to dissimilar metal joining make mandatory big knowledge and expertise, which are in this case provided by IK4-LORTEK as something essential for the good end of the LIGHTWELD project. The LIGHTWELD project will make possible to advance the welding technology for studied alloys, making it cost efficient and feasible for industry manufacturers of different markets. This will mainly open new manufacturing possibilities for European industry. Aircraft industry is the main target market, but other industrial areas are also to be considered in the future exploitation.

Keywords: al alloys,al-li alloys,mg alloys,lbw,rsw,metallic fuselage,dissimilar joining
LOw Subsonic Investigationof a largecomplete Turboprop Aircraft (LOSITA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Switzerland
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2399651.22
EU funding (EUR): 1697713.41
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The project tackles the design, manufacturing and testing of an advanced turob-prop 90-seat regional aircraft complete powered model. The model will be tested in a Wind-Tunnel with the aim of evaluation the performance of the high-.lift devices in different configurations. Major work-packages therefore are the design and manufacturing of the model, the design and manufacturing of a engine demonstrator, the integration of all the parts into the model and the final test including a ground-vibration test as well as the Wind-Tunnel test under low-speed conditions. The consoritum set up for this proposal therefore consists of companies specialisied in the three doamins. IBK will coordinate the consortium and perform the design. Revoind Industriale is performing the manufacturing, RUAG as third partner will focus on the engine development. The proposal tackling these different tasks will introduce a number of highly innovative approaches to solve the detailed problems that arise in such a complex task.

Keywords: wt design,powered model,manufacturing,wt-test
Development of Reliable Emission and Atomization Models for Combustor Design (DREAMCODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1294465.4
EU funding (EUR): 970848.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The SAGE6 demonstration project aims to develop and mature a lean burn combustion system. An essential enabler to development of such technology is an accurate and reliable computational tool for prediction of emissions. Lean burn provides significant benefits in terms of NOx emissions. However, the emissions of CO, UHC and soot limit the operation of the combustor at different conditions. Reliable predictions of emission trends will lead to optimised combustor designs in a cost effective way. Today’s capabilities, however, are still inadequate to produce accurate and reliable predictions in direct support of lean burn system design. The DREAMCODE project aims to develop and improve computational methods that can be used in the design process of low emission combustors. Improved models and methods will be developed to predict emissions accurately and reliably. To that end, the following essential elements of a CFD combustion emission tool will be considered: 1. Detailed chemistry models for jet fuel surrogates are necessary to describe the complicated chemical processes of fuel oxidation and emission formation in the gas phase. 2. Soot models are indispensable to describe the complex physical and chemical phenomena of soot particle formation. 3. Chemistry reduction methods are inevitable to reduce the computational cost of the complex chemistry model for application in CFD codes. 4. Spray break-up models are necessary to model the liquid fuel break-up, which has a dramatic effect on emissions. 5. Turbulence-chemistry interaction models have to account for the effects that occur on length scales which cannot be resolved by the computational mesh. These 5 models will be improved and integrated in a CFD code for the validation on real aero engine gas turbine combustors.

Keywords: detailed reaction mechanism for kerosene,nox,uhc,soot modelling,tabulated chemistry reduction,spray break-up,turbulent combustion,les-pdf methods,lean-burn gas turbine
Open rotor propellers Ice protection System (ICEPS-ORPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997326.67
EU funding (EUR): 1497995.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The call topic description calls for a new IPS (Ice protection system) for composite propeller blades, which can be integrated with composites. From a state of the art survey of ice protection system (IPS) technologies performed in the preparation of this proposal, seven new active IPS technologies have been selected as having potential for being developed into a cost effective propeller IPS of high technical performance. These are 1) Hot air heating 2) Laser heating 3) Heating foils either surface mounted or embedded with either steady state or pulsed electrical heating 4) Electromagnetic repulsion/attraction 5) Microwave heating 6) Low frequency forced vibration by electromechanical transducers 7) Guided wave ultrasonics using microfiber piezoelectric composites. Synergistic combination of these IPS approaches, and synergistic combination of any one with a number of passive technologies probably involving non-intrusive ice-phobic chemical coatings, will also be investigated. The project will discover the ranking order of performance of these 7 systems to TRL4. There will be a number of innovations to facilitate the high aerodynamic performance of each IPS i.e. they should generate no significant additional drag on any surfaces. This to be achieved through the use of power delivery components of very low dimension perpendicular to flight surfaces e.g. microwave strip-line wave guided and antenna, fibre optic cables, low dimensional air ducting and piezoelectric composite foils. By modelling the systems (subject to further state of the art study and screening within the project) a prototype, according with the specifications defined in the topic description and additional partner criteria for performance evaluation, robustness and cost effectiveness, will be developed. The prototype construction, if laboratory evaluations are passed, will be tested to TRL4 on a propeller test rig in an icing wind tunnel.

Keywords: hot air low dimensional ducting,microwave strip antenna heating,laser optic fibre heating,forced vibration de-icing,guided ultrasonics icing prevention,propeller ips,ice phobic coatings
Highly-accurate/reliable WT test demonstration of low-noise innovative MLG configuration (ARTIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,Greece
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1399791.87
EU funding (EUR): 1023898.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the activity under this CfP is the test of a full-scale Main Landing Gear fuselage-mounted architecture sized for a high-wing regional aircraft configuration in a Wind Tunnel facility. This proposal considers a complete architecture including all necessary features from an aeroacoustic point of view including: gear struts, wheel pack, bay cavity and doors, fairings and portion of fuselage. A low noise technology shall be investigated following a selection process to be completed within GRA activities. The concept of an acoustic mirror shall be developed resulting in a design which will enable accurate far field sound measurements via a sectioned model with an acoustic reflector on the half plane. The consortium will design and manufacture a modular full-scale mock-up of the MLG integrating low-noise devices as indicated from the GRA ITD Member. The model shall be modular in order to test both the baseline and the low-noise MLG architecture with one or both gear legs. Advanced aero-acoustic measures including partial coherence techniques, orthogonal beam forming and deconvolution beam forming will be utilized to fully assess the noise emission of the landing gear. These techniques will quantify the source distribution, mechanisms of noise reduction and provide an innovative tool for use in aeroacoustic problems of this nature. ARTIC has put together a consortium which comprises of one of Europe's most distinguished Universities, a Research Institute in aeronautics of international renown and an SME with specific competence in aerospace design, manufacturing and structural analysis. All partners have participated and delivered in EU projects, in some cases extensively including coordination. In addition, subcontracting will be given to the only aeroacoustic wind tunnel company in Europe capable to perform these tests.

Keywords: landing gear noise,beam forming,noise reduction technology
Mobile Two Dimensional Gas (MOBILE2DG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165040.0
EU funding (EUR): 149869.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In certain physical interfaces between two different materials, or in physical surfaces, electrons or holes behave as if they were confined to two dimensions, forming a 2-dimensional gas, [2DG] and showing exceptional properties, such as very high mobility. 2DG is a common phenomenon widely used, e.g. in Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), currently used in nearly all microprocessors. 2DG is usually confined to physical interfaces between two different materials and its physical location is fixed. Imagine now a new type of 2DG, which is not confined to a physical interface but can be created electrically inside a pure single material; it could be electrically ‘written’ into a working device at will, and could be displaced inside the material by a small voltage pulse. In our ERC project we predicted this theoretically and demonstrated it experimentally inside a single crystal of the ubiquitous insulator BaTiO3. In contrast to conventional 2DG, our 2DG isn't bound to an interface. The free carrier concentration at our 2DG reaches giant 10power19 cm-3 and its metallic conductivity exceeds 10power9 times the bulk conductivity. We have also elaborated and filed a patent application on a way to produce this 2DG inside the insulator. In principle this effect can work in all ferroelectric materials. In the PoC project we plan to demonstrate the phenomenon inside thin films, which are more industrially viable than the bulk crystal used for our first demonstration, to demonstrate the function of our field-controlled 2DG in an industrially exploitable structure, approach industry, and explore together applicability of devices based on this new phenomenon in electronics and related areas, such as MEMS. At the end of the PoC project, we will have confirmed the potential of the new 2DG in a set of devices, secured our new patents, developed IPR strategy and we or partners will have strategic plan towards device development and commercialization.

Keywords: 268058
A novel solution to efficient Haematopoietic Stem Cell regeneration (STEMCELL2MAX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Portugal
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163600.0
EU funding (EUR): 149885.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is an urgent need for improved expansion protocols for haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Many studies have tried to stimulate HSC expansion by experimenting with cytokine cocktails in cell culture media. Although these combinations of growth factors are able to increase the amount of HSCs, this happens at the cost of cell maturation: many of the cells in the final culture have lost their 'stemness' and thus their use for treatment and R&D. Dr. Veiga Fernandes has identified crucial survival factors for HSC expansion that increase the stem cell yield 20-fold compared to the current state-of-the-art. This dramatic increase poses serious commercial and societal opportunities. In this ERC PoC project a team of technological and commercial experts will investigate the commercial feasibility of this potentially groundbreaking approach and aims to design the optimal route-to-market with the ultimate goal to attract investors and other strategic partners.

Keywords: 207057
A System for Embodied Relational Experiences (SERE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162272.0
EU funding (EUR): 149946.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Immersive virtual reality has been found to be useful for the simulation of conflictual social situations, where classical results from social psychology may be reproduced. The purpose of this project is to produce a consumer level version of the virtual reality system developed in the ERC Advanced Grant TRAVERSE, and to show how this may be applied in applications depicting various types of conflict situation. The project will include development of the consumer level system, porting of existing applications to this system, and the carrying out of experiments to test both the technical viability of the system and its impact on the psychological state of participants. The project will assess business opportunities around these ideas, and produce a business plan for their commercial exploitation. The project would offer three types of benefit (i) a social benefit in its applicability to significant social problems (ii) an economic benefit in potentially reducing the costs of various forms of counselling and (iii) a commercial benefit leading to exploitation of the system and underlying ideas in several domains of application.

Keywords: 227985
Rotating Opto-Magnetic Analysis System (ROMANS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149834.0
EU funding (EUR): 149833.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of this PoC project is to develop a prototype of portable, highly sensitive and low cost technology for point-of care detection of inflammatory diseases biomarkers. At DTU Nanotech we have developed a completely new technology which holds a great potential to become, in a short period, an extremely useful tool for small medical facilities, family doctors, and chronically ill patients. The core readout element is represented, as in the HERMES project, by an optical pickup head, as used in CD, DVD-ROM or BLU-RAY, which embeds in a single optical path both a laser source and a high-resolution photodetector. By measuring how the light is scattered by magnetic nano-particles actuated by an external AC field we have demonstrated that it is possible to detect low concentration of analytes present in the sample. The key feature of our invention is that blood preconcentration and analyte readout are integrated into the same magnetic-based operations, leading to a compact, low-cost and user-friendly device. Doctors will benefit from our technology which allows performing multiple analyses without relying on centralized laboratories. A fast technology capable to detect multiple parameters would for example allow patient screening at the family doctors’ offices, or would allow chronic diseases patients to be monitored without the need of regularly going to the hospital. The scope of the project is both to provide a benchmarked prototype and to identify the best approach to commercialize the invention. The PoC grant will provide the instruments for understanding the low-cost point-of-care market more deeply, in order to start addressing as soon as possible the challenges of breaking through a complex market such as human diagnostics. Thanks to the intrinsic low-cost of the machine components, several cycles of production/testing/evaluation are expected to be performed, facilitating a constant and fast improvement of our platform development and testing.

Keywords: 320535
ZF-Delivery (ZF-DELIVERY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 131926.0
EU funding (EUR): 131926.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Within our ERC Starting Grant “Direct Drug Delivery”, we developed a method controlled fusion of liposomes and cells: a new pathway for direct drug delivery. Our method of membrane fusion is inspired by natural occurring SNARE proteins, which control this process in-vivo. A set of complementary peptide amphiphiles were designed and these are able to induce the rapid and efficient fusion between two opposing membranes. In the ERC-project we have shown that our method of fusion can be applied to liposomes and to live cells. Since liposomes can be loaded with drugs, this enables the direct delivery of drugs into live cells. We have recently found that our method also works in-vivo, which makes surface tagging and fusion applicable to zebrafish larvae. Drug screening and testing in Zebrafish larvae is becoming increasingly more popular as it reduces cost and enables rapid screening, making it easier to find new drugs. In this proposal, we want to investigate whether the market for applying our tagging and fusion of liposomes with zebrafish larvae enabling rapid in vivo drug screening is sufficiently large to make the commercialization of this method attractive for investors.

Keywords: 240394