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Development of a safe, compact, highly efficient, economic and fully automatic electrolytic treatment system for separation of emulsified oil from wastewater of ships (bilge) and oil rigs (slop) (OILECLEAR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Sweden,Norway,Germany,Sweden,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-15
End date: 2015-02-14
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494089.8
EU funding (EUR): 1149000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project OilEClear will develop a treatment system for oily wastewater at ships and oil rigs, enabling these to meet current and future bilge and slop water regulations with regard to oil hydrocarbons (THC), dissolved organics and toxic metals. OSPAR has set the discharge limit to 30 ppm oil in slop. IMO resolution MEPEC 107(49) sets the limit to 15 ppm oil in bilge, which complies with EU directive MED 96/98/WC. Some countries practice a limit of 5 ppm. With the currently available treatment technologies, it is a great challenge for the ship and rig owners/operators to meet the regulations regarding discharge of oily wastewater. A huge market is therefore open for better alternatives. The OilEClear project aims at a new, patentable electro-coagulation treatment system, meeting a THC standard of 5 ppm which also removes organics and toxic metals. The OilEClear system will separate emulsified oil from water by use of a novel three-phase separator design. Effluent data and operation will be integrated with process control by use of ultrasound measurement of flow and particles and automatic logging and monitoring of THC by UV-fluorescence. The project will be coordinated by Westmatic AB( Sweden). As electrode cell and separation unit technology provider, they will post project sell the fully integrated systems and service to the market. The other project partners in the project include the SME IMU-TEC OY (Finland) who will be apply their knowledge in aerosols cleaning and waste gas from reactor, SME NaCoM AS (Norway) who will contribute with their experience of integration of on-board system for ships and rigs, the end user and LE Stena Line (Sweden) who will contribute with end user requirement guidance and the RTDs Teknologisk Institutt AS (Norway) and Fraunhofer IGB (Germany) who will perform the majority of the RTD work in the project.

Keywords: electro-flotation,oil-in-water treatment,health and safety,environment,electrolysis
Genes And Proteins for AutoImmunity Diagnostics (GAPAID)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Hungary,Hungary,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1715535.96
EU funding (EUR): 1210000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and sistemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are two autoimmune diseases that respectively affect an estimated population of 1.537.000 and 1.272.000 of patients in Europe. Such diseases show a long prodrome during which there are no clinical symptoms. In some cases, therapeutic treatments have been developed to improve patients quality of life. Therefore, reliable diagnostic/prognostic tools are necessary not only for an early diagnosis and for monitoring disease activity, but also for setting up personalized therapeutic treatments. The clinical diagnosis of RA and SLE is assisted by the use of in vitro diagnostic tests aimed at the evaluation of the presence/level of few autoantibodies circulating in serum. Yet, this diagnostic approach is unsatisfactory because it can assist the diagnosis only after the first disease onset, it is not useful to evaluate the disease susceptibility for an early prevention, and it does not provide information to follow the disease progression for the set up of personalized therapeutic treatments. To solve these drawbacks, the GAPAID project is aimed at supplying the SME participants of the scientific and technological activities necessary to develop a novel diagnostic / prognostic platform for patients affected by RA and SLE. To this aim the scientific activities will be focused on the discovery of the diagnostic and prognostic value of the genetic and serological profiles associated to RA and SLE. The technological activities will contribute to develop multiplex arrays for the contemporary detection of more analytes and to set up a software for the RA and SLE diagnosis / prognosis by matching the clinical, genetic, and serological data. The exploitation of the scientific and technological results will allow the SME participants to the GAPAID proposal to develop and to further commercialize both for RA and SLE an in vitro diagnostic product composed by a genetic array, a serological array, and a software.

Keywords: autoimmune diseases,rheumatoid arthritis,systemic lupus erythematosus,diagnosis,prognosis,genotyping,serological biomarkers,multiplex microarrays
PLATFORM OF GAMES FOR PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY TO ENHANCE LIVING ADJUSTMENT (GAME-ABLING)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Spain,Greece,Ukraine,Finland,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1507767.54
EU funding (EUR): 1136995.19
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is one of the most frequently conditions in childhood, with an incidence of 2 per 1,000 live births. In the EU there is 1.3 out of 15 million persons with CP in the world. This neurological disorder affects body movement, balance and posture and almost always is accompanied by other cognitive or sensory impairments like mental retardation, deafness and vision problems. The severity of these problems varies widely, from very mild and subtle to very profound. These disabilities lead to an inactive lifestyle which reduces the patient’s physical health, social participation, and quality of life. Therapy costs can be up to €45,000 by year, a cost that cannot be afforded by most of the families. Playing Video games is a useful treatment that promotes and maintains more active and healthful lifestyle in these persons. This in turn contributes to reduce medical and social care cost and improve well-being of their families. However accessibility to videogames is hardly applied for them. GAME-ABLING is to create a software tool for creating interactive video games in an intuitive manner in such a way that non-expert personnel (e.g. parents) can develop customized games. Games will be controlled using body movements and voice. To this end, Computer Vision and image processing techniques will be developed to improve accessibility. GAME-ABLING will create a web portal to make up a disabled gaming e-community in where users will have access to use the software tool, play games and upload own creations to share it. SMEs envisage GAME-ABLING exploitation following a subscription business model to have full access to the web portal. GAME-ABLING represents a business opportunity for the SMEs, who expect to reach 0.5% world market penetration and an accumulated income of €9.9 million in 5 years. In addition, GAME-ABLING will contribute to reduce medical and social care costs in the EU by at least 0.5% which supposes additional annual savings of €200 million.

Keywords: game authoring tool human computer interaction tracking recognition
Improving the Performance of Concentrating PV by Exploiting the Excess Heat through a Low Temperature Supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle (CPV/RANKINE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1247525.0
EU funding (EUR): 951550.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In concentrating photovoltaic systems (CPV) the incident solar radiation is multiplied by a factor equal to the concentration ratio. The electricity production per cell area is increasing almost linear with the concentration ratio. Concentration on PV cells surface, directly results in a proportional temperature increase, deteriorating the performance of the cells. To cope with this effect, in some configurations the cells are cooled and the removing heat is then used for other purposes, like for domestic hot water production, resulting in a CPV/Thermal (CPV/T) configuration. On the other hand, Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is one the most efficient technologies to convert heat to power. The proposed innovative concept deals with the conversion of that CPV/T heat to additional electricity through the Supercritical ORC (SCORC) process. SCORC is selected because enjoys better efficiencies at low temperatures in comparison to Subcritical ORC. This integrated CPV/T-SCORC system minimizes the temperature effect on the PV cells performance and improves the annual energy productivity (in kWh/kWp). In comparison to a flat PV system a performance improvement between 15-40% is anticipated, depending on the season, along with a more efficient heat transfer from the CPV/T system to the Rankine process (i.e. lower pinch point), due to the supercritical cycle. The aim of the proposed project is to extensively study this integrated process and to develop, construct and test a hybrid CPV/T- SCORC system of 14 kWp, where CPV/T heat is effectively recovered by the SCORC process for electricity generation. A significant reduction of specific electricity cost is anticipated, reaching 0.12 €/kWh by the end of the project and around 0.10 €/kWh by 2016, making the current technology competitive in the PV market and increasing significantly the competitiveness and business cycle of the involved SMEs.

Keywords: solar energy,concentrating pv,supercritical organic rankine cycle,heat to power conversion
Real-Time In Situ Monitoring of Tool Wear in Precision Engineering Applications (REALISM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Ireland,Poland,Italy,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1245287.41
EU funding (EUR): 942000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

In precision engineering, the degradation of the cutting surface (tool wear) has the greatest affect on accuracy and surface finish of machined parts. Tool wear is the greatest single contributor to scrap (waste material). In the surgical products market, cosmetic finish requirements (16RA) placed on the precision engineered parts continue to be raised to new levels. Similarly, in the aerospace industry parts need to be increasingly accurate in order to increase energy efficiency. Through the development of CNC technology tolerances of 1µm are now possible. However, SMEs see significant failures in the current technology. Currently, errors associated with tool wear remain uncompensated for and are usually only detected at the end of the machine cycle, by which time the product is scrap. If such monitoring were available, machining parameters could be adjusted to compensate for tool wear, tools could be replaced earlier, machines could be scheduled for down-time and surface finish and dimensional stability would be increased. Such advances would have a strong impact on the efficiency of processes and increase competitive advantage. The specific aim of the project is to develop a robust ‘smart’ sensor-based system to provide process a feedback loop to both the CNC machine and the operator.

Keywords: sensor,cnc,tool wear,vibration,acoustic,power
Demonstration of a novel system to breakdown hazardous substances in wastewater streams into harmless bio-friendly compounds using multi-chromatic UV light (L4CW-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1363898.2
EU funding (EUR): 786000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Many industrial processes create a significant volume of polluted waste water streams, which needs to be cleaned prior to return to the environment to ensure the sustainability of the water supplies and the environment. This is reflected in a significant body of legislation, including the European Water Framework Directive and the IPPC directive. Light4CleanWater R4SME project (FP7-SME-2008-01-232073) resulted in a pilot system that was able to safely and cost effectively treat toxic organic waste streams; breaking down hazardous substances into harmless bio-friendly compounds, using an advanced oxidation process based on multi-chromatic UV source (AOP-UV), without generating any secondary toxic by-products. To enable this water treatment technology, the result of EC supported RTD under the R4SME programme to be commercially exploited there is a need to: 1) Industrialise the manufacturing process to enable volume production and economies of scale to be achieved. 2) To validate a commercially viable process that can be marketed with a reasonable return on investment (RoI) by customers; the industrial system has been identified as needing to be able to cost less than €30/m3 of waste water treated. This cost base was identified as being achievable in the R4SME project; it now needs to be validated on an industrial scale and will be an economic target of this project. 3) To demonstrate the technology over extended periods in industrial locations (two different sites for over six months at each site). 4) The demonstrations to be shown to relevant potential customers (over sixty) from across industry and across Europe, in a format that is able to show it to be of potential to benefit to their respective businesses. 5) Feedback from demonstrations to be collated in a format that enables iterative system enhancement to improve the commercial viability of the process.

Keywords: industrial wastewater,advanced oxidation process based on multi-chromatic uv source,treatment,break down hazardous substances,sustainability,cost effective,harmless by-products,validation
Automated system based on on-line VFA sensors for an optimised control of anaerobic digestion plants (AD-WISE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Germany,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1257346.4
EU funding (EUR): 939000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process where the organic matter is degraded to form biogas and a digestate. Biogas can be fired in combined heat and power (CHP) engines or purified and injected into the gas grid. The total primary energy produced from biogas in Europe was 5.9 million toe in 2007, and there is still growing potential, since the white paper objective for 2010 is 15 million toe and there is a huge amount of organic waste available that is disposed without valorisation. Control and optimisation of AD plants is a key issue and one of the main research topics of this field. AD plants operators usually have to drive the plant with the only information of pH and biogas composition. This often leads to a situation of underuse of the plant, if the operator prefers to drive the plant in a conservative way, or process malfunction, if the operator chooses to drive the plant near the load limit. Out of all the parameters proposed to control the process, the more reliable is the volatile fatty acids profile (VFAP) that consists on the single VFA concentration (acetate, propionate, butyrate etc.). This parameter allows checking not only the process state but also predicting and avoiding process malfunction, what is not possible with other parameters (pH, biogas composition, etc.). With the information of VFAP, AD plants operators could optimise the plant, increase biogas production and avoid process stops. The currently available technique to measure VFAP is gas chromatography (GC): an off-line measurement that needs specific equipment and trained specialists, and takes 1-2 weeks between the sampling and the results, making the measurement no longer valuable for process optimisation. AD-WISE aims to develop an on-line device able to get real time VFAP measurements based on optic techniques and to integrate these measurements in the control system of the AD plant in order to optimise the process (maximise biogas production while maintaining process stability).

Keywords: anaerobic digestion,process control,raman,sensors,agro-industrial digestor,agrifood,vfa,organic load rate,on-line vfa,ica technologies,reneable sources,energy
Development of 3D digital glasses for enhancing mobility of visually impaired people to open strategic product lines for participant SMEs (DIGIGLASSES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Hungary,United Kingdom,Greece,Netherlands,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1202754.19
EU funding (EUR): 915000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In DIGIGLASSES project a group of SMEs aims to develop a marketable digital tool for the visually impaired, which will be able to provide 3D vision for the users, corrected and customized for the special symptoms of the user’s eye disease. By this combined solution, not only the symptoms of the unique disease will be decreased, but the stereoscopic vision allows judging distances within the environment. The members of DIGIGLASSES consortium believe that the concept is worthy and promising not only as an effective low vision aid, but also from the business point of view. The feedback from the optical and vision aid devices market validates more efforts to invest in developing this innovative technology.

Keywords: visual aid device,image processing
Fluid Foods Pasteurizer and Homogenizer based on Centrifugal Hydrocavitation Reactor (FCHR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Malta,Norway,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1182560.0
EU funding (EUR): 895000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The FCHR project proposes the implementation of an integrated pasteuriser and homogenizer for fluid foods based on an alternative approach induced only by mechanical means: hydrodynamic cavitation, which consists in the generation of huge amounts of energy in the form of shock waves, due to the turbulence produced in a fluid by pressure fluctuations. Opposite to currently studied alternatives, such as pulsed electric field or ultrasound cavitation, FCHR is highly scalable, due to the absence of electric field or ultrasound emitters. Substituting thermal pasteurization with a process working at lower temperature, it will deliver a safe product that preserves the sensory characteristics and freshness, while reducing processing cost, thanks to improvement in energy efficiency in the manufacturing steps (pasteurization and homogenization). S&T objectives consist in: 1. optimization of the design of the reactor and the rotor for the specific food industry needs, through simulating the hydrodynamic behavior , 2. mechanical design of the reactor, structural optimization, noise reduction and material selection to avoid any wear 3. implement a specific control system for the control of cavitation and of the pasteurising/homogenizing process 4. test the microbiological, chemical, physical and nutritional quality of 2-3 food products selected 5. Definition of a pasteurizing/homogenizing process design applicable at industrial scale 6. Evaluation of results against commercial benchmark for energetic, economic and quality aspects. The FCHR technology is applicable potentially to all fluid food in which pasteurisation and homogenization is needed: all products in the dairy industry, emulsions of flavorings, fruit nectars, vegetables puree, egg yolks, sauces and tomato sauces, formulations for early childhood, etc. The potential application to these products, and to intermediates used for their production, represent a huge potential market for the technology.

Keywords: hydrodynamic cavitation,pasteurization,homogenization
Advanced data management and informatics for the optimum operation and control of wastewater treatment plants (DIAMOND)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1615190.84
EU funding (EUR): 1128000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays most of the EU countries treat practically the totality of the volume of urban waste water (WW) generated. However, a deep look at the performance of most of the existing wastewater treatment facilities (WWTP) evidences that significant steps forward can still be given in terms of effluent quality, process robustness and operational costs. One of the main technical limitations for optimizing plant operation some years ago was the lack of reliable measuring devices. At present, new and more reliable on-line sensors are available and the main limitation for the optimal operation of WWTPs is, clearly, the great difficulty to properly manage all the heterogeneous, incomplete and, sometimes inconsistent data of the WWTPs. WWTPs daily manage thousands of data from all points of the plant. The likelihood that data errors and/or faults occur has consequently highly increased. Also, unexpected situations occurring in the plants make sensors not fully reliable yet sending incorrect data to the data management systems. Using these data for real-time operation and control activities could lead to a drastic deterioration of the wastewater treatment efficiency. The appropriate processing and management of the data available in a WWTP nowadays exceed the capacity of the staff of the WWTP, limiting the use of the information available for diagnosis and operation tasks. Advanced on-line data fault detection and monitoring tools could alert operators from sensors showing unrealistic or incorrect data whereas, real-time data processing and adequation tools could make data more reliable. Project DIAMOND aims to achieve a model of excellence in the management of wastewater treatment systems by addressing the design, development, implementation and validation of new advanced data management, monitoring and control algorithms and tools for supporting the optimum operation of WWTPs. This objective is of great interest for the scientific and industrial communities related to WWTPs.

Keywords: wastewater treatment,measurement equipment and instrumentation,soft sensors,fault detection,advanced data management,advanced monitoring,real-time control,modeling,simulation,standardization