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Innovative Hydrometallurgical Processes to recover Metals from WEEE including lamps and batteries - Demonstration (HYDROWEEE DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Romania,Serbia,Italy,Italy,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3758950.8
EU funding (EUR): 2671250.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The recycling business is traditionally dominated by SMEs. In the last 5 years a general trend in the electronics recycling sector to bigger companies is very visible. Multinational, multi-sector companies are buying several smaller recyclers every year. Hence the previous project HydroWEEE (03/2009–02/2012) dealt with the recovery of rare and precious metals from WEEE. The idea has been to develop a mobile plant using hydrometallurgical processes to extract metals like yttrium, indium, lithium, cobalt, zinc, copper, gold, silver, nickel, lead, tin in a high purity. By making this plant mobile several SMEs can benefit from the same plant. By making the processes universal several fractions (lamps, CRTs, LCDs, printed circuit boards and Li-batteries) can be treated in the same mobile plant in batches. This reduces the minimum quantities and necessary investments. In addition these innovative HydroWEEE processes produce pure enough materials that can be directly used for electroplating and other applications. The objective of HydroWEEE Demo is to build 2 industrial, real-life demonstration plants (1 stationary and 1 mobile) in order to test the performance and prove the viability of the processes from an integrated point of view (technical, economical, operational, social) including the assessment of its risks (incl. health) and benefits to the society and the environment as well as remove the barriers for a wide market uptake. Finally the previously developed processes of extracting yttrium, indium, lithium, cobalt, zinc, copper, gold, silver, nickel, lead, tin will be improved and new processes to recover additional metals which are still in this fractions (Cerium, Platinum, Palladium, Europium, Lanthanum, Terbium, …) as well as the integrated treatment of solid and liquid wastes will be developed. Summarized HydroWEEE Demo will boost European competitiveness by applying novel processes for improved resource efficiency by extracting rare and precious metals.

Keywords: hydrometallurgy,weee,sme,rare earth,precious and rare metals
Supporting consolidation, replication and up-scaling of sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse technologies for India (SARASWATI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal and cross-thematic activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,France,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2930674.36
EU funding (EUR): 2350000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The poor condition of sanitation and wastewater management in India (as in many Asian countries) is well documented and has recently led the Asian Development Bank to call for a revolution in wastewater management across Asia. Conventional, centralized approaches have failed in many areas and will hardly be able to solve potential problems in rural, hilly and rapidly developing urban areas in India. Instead, innovative, decentralised systems aiming at various benefits are needed. A main benefit in the context of SARASWATI is the reuse of treated wastewater for different purposes. Other benefits include reuse of energy and nutrients, which are also important. Despite the overall poor condition of wastewater treatment across South Asia, India has already considerable experience with such decentralised approaches. Over the last decade, hundreds of decentralised wastewater treatment plants of different technology types have been installed all over India. However, not all are functioning well and several also failed, due to various reasons. Also, there is no consolidated evaluation and review of all those existing plants available. As a result there is only very limited knowledge on the performance of those existing technologies available and a review and evaluation of those plants is very timely in order to derive sound conclusions and recommendations for future wastewater management strategies in India. SARASWATI will perform such a comprehensive and independent evaluation and hence provide key suggestions for the improvement of existing technologies. In addition, SARASWATI aims at deploying selected proven EU technologies with a potential for solving grave water challenges in India (water pollution due to discharge of untreated wastewater and storm-water, water scarcity and groundwater depletion, unhygienic sludge handling practices due to lack of suitable technologies). Water challenged sites have been identified in 5 Indian States comprising almost all regions.

Keywords: integrated assessment,pilot plants,policy recommendations,technical guidelines
ARchaeological RObot systems for the World's Seas (ARROWS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4083952.0
EU funding (EUR): 2977726.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

ARROWS proposes to adapt and develop low cost autonomous underwater vehicle technologies to significantly reduce the cost of archaeological operations, covering the full extent of archaeological campaign. Benefiting from the significant investments already made for military security and offshore oil and gas applications, the project aims to demonstrate an illustrative portfolio of mapping, diagnosis and excavation tasks. ARROWS approach is to identify the archaeologists’ requirements in all phases of the campaign, identify problems and propose technological solutions with the technological readiness levels that predict their maturation for exploitation within 3-5 years. The individual technologies are then developed during the course of the project using agile development method comprising rapid cycles of testing and comparison against the end user requirements. To ensure the wide exploitability of the results the requirements are defined and the solutions are tested in two historically significant but environmentally very different contexts, in The Mediterranean Sea and in The Baltic Sea. Both immediate, low risk and long term, high risk developments will be pursued. In particular: • Fast a low cost horizontal surveys of large areas using customised AUVs with multimodal sensing. • Fast and low cost semi-automated data analysing tools for site and object relocation • High quality maps from better image reconstruction methods and better localization abilities of AUVs. • Shipwreck penetration and internal mapping using small low cost vehicles localising using fixed pingers. • Soft excavation tool for diagnosis and excavation of fragile objects. • Mixed reality environments for virtual exploration of archaeological sites. • Monitoring of changes via back-to-the-site missions. The ARROWS consortium comprises expertise from underwater archaeology, underwater engineering, robotics, image processing and recognition from academia and industry.

Keywords: archaeology driven technology,low cost underwater unmanned vehicles,archaeologists training,good practices
Waste Heat to Electrical Energy via Sustainable Organic Thermoelectric Devices (H2ESOT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Latvia,Bulgaria,Moldova, Republic of
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1674053.0
EU funding (EUR): 1265842.35
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

It is estimated that mankind wastes ~20% of the 15 terawatts required annually for global power consumption as low level heat (<200 oC). This amounts to 10^20 J/yr, which is greater than the total annual energy usage of all EU member states. Widespread availability of new low-cost organic thermoelectric devices would allow direct heat-to-electrical energy (H2E) from this vast, essentially untapped, resource generating a new industrial sector based on local power generation from otherwise wasted energy sources (engines, boilers, heat pumps, etc.) amounting up to 50 billion €/yr. New materials and devices are needed to achieve such disruptive technology as present approaches are not viable for reasons either of: (i) device inefficiency, and/or (ii) global raw material unavailability preventing widespread implementation. The development of efficient, thermoelectric modules using only low-cost, readily available, renewable and sustainable organic materials would address a range of major transnational FET challenges impacting on energy efficiency, climate change, resources depletion and ‘personalised electricity generation/use’ that will arise within the next decade. To achieve this goal the H2ESOT project is pluri-disciplinary and cross-thematic project from leading European groups able to: prepare, purify, fabricate, test and theoretically define/evolve the organic materials that are needed to fulfil this ‘Innovation Europe 2020’ vision. Europe must reach a position where it can begin to make use of a significant fraction of its waste heat in order to overcome the immense societal changes associated with sustainable growth and mitigating climate change. Only organic thermoelectric devices ultimately offer the potential for Thermoelectronic (TE) FET that can be widely deployed to recover low level heat. Only H2ESOT has the optimal blend of expertise to develop an appropriate roadmap to such revolutionary new TE materials defining a critically important new industry.

Keywords: new organic thermoelectric materials,waste-heat-to-energy,sustainability,roadmap,tetrathiotetracene derivatives,synthetic chemistry,experimental-theoretical physics,electrical engineering,sme
Architecture-driven verification of systems software (ADVENT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1366371.0
EU funding (EUR): 1075824.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Systems software such as operating system kernels, hypervisors, database engines, web servers and language run-times forms the foundation of any modern computer system. It is extremely complex and hard to get right, with bugs making whole services unavailable or opening the doors of seemingly secure systems to viruses and criminals. Ensuring its reliability is thus imperative for building future trustworthy ICT infrastructures. The advent project will develop innovative methods and tools for cost-effective verification of real-world systems software, making it possible to guarantee an unprecedented level of reliability. We will achieve this by exploiting a trend among programmers to use informally described patterns, idioms, abstractions and other forms of structure contained in their software, which are together called its architecture. Building on the emerging technology of separation logic, we will formalise such software engineering concepts used by systems programmers to reason about their software informally, and will use the results to drive the design of verification techniques. This is a radically novel approach to the problem of verifying complex software: it departs from the common practice of building generic verification tools that, not being able to take advantage of programmers' knowledge and intuition, do not scale to big and complicated systems. The architecture-driven verification techniques resulting from the project have the potential to yield a dramatic leap in the cost-benefit ratio of the verification technology. This will allow verification to scale to systems of real-world size and complexity that so far have been beyond the reach of quality assurance methods guaranteeing correctness.

Keywords: trustworthiness,reliability,software verification,systems software,software architecture,multicore programming,operating systems
Secretariat of the technology platform for the electricity networks of the future (SMARTGRIDS-ETPS-III)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-1STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 953916.0
EU funding (EUR): 425285.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The European Technology Platform for Electricity Networks of the Future, also called SmartGrids ETP, began its work in 2005. It aims at fostering cooperation of major stakeholders in these fields through the design, update and implementation of a Strategic Research Agenda. In this context the Platform secretariat seeks to create strong links among stakeholders and R&D and Demonstration initiatives that contribute to the success of the “SET Plan – European Electricity Grids Initiative”, and to increase exchange of information among R&D and demonstration projects as a way to speed up the learning curve for smart grids technologies. The objective of this proposal is to provide continuity to the activities of the Platform with the support of an efficient and active secretariat, with flexibility needed to quickly react the challenges ahead, in terms of efficient, impartial and transparent management of platform activities, communication strategy and so contribute to achieving the statutory platform objectives and ensure their highest quality. The four main activity lines of the secretariat are: 1. Support to the main bodies forming the internal structure of the Platform: definition and planning of its activities, organisation and management of meetings, and internal communication exchange. 2. Coordinate and follow-up actions carried out by ETP groups or members , ensuring the generation of high quality outcomes and playing an active role in the development of key ETP public documents. 3. Coordinate links with other related initiatives, providing the information and contacts to foster bi-directional exchange of information. 4. Support in the definition and implementation of a communication strategy based around an information center (the public Smart Grids ETP internet site), conferences, newsletters, workshops, disseminating activities in other events and initiatives with direct cooperation with the European Commission.

Keywords: smart grid electricity networks
Brain controlled aircraft flight using multiple feedback mechanisms (BRAINFLIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-L0, 2012)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 873657.2
EU funding (EUR): 598801.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Several studies have revealed that the activity of neurons is sufficiently capable of providing enough data to enable the control of an electronic device using solely signals provided by the brain. Project BRAINFLIGHT proposes the application of this kind of control in the world of aircraft, to enable people to control aircraft using only neural signals emitted from their brain. This kind of approach constitutes a novel concept for the control of these platforms, and was until recently only conceived as science fiction. The goal of project BRAINFLIGHT is to create a novel approach to aircraft control, and to assess the performance of this concept. This project is mainly focused on investigating what are the best approaches that allow fast learning to control an aircraft using brain signals, while allowing pilots to multitask. Project BRAINFLIGHT will test an innovative approach for brain control of flight, which takes advantage of the amazing ability that the brain has of learning to use novel tools using operant conditioning. The project will test how the use of this approach, as well as different feedback mechanisms for the pilot (visual and/or tactile), will affect learning and performance compared to conventional control. The project will also test the ability of pilots to multi-task using brain control by performing experiments where integration and interference between multimodal signals are investigated. In addition, if the control described above does not allow control of many degrees of freedom or allow for multitasking, we will test an alternative approach in which pilots will use their neural activity to select particular tactile sensory stimuli in order to control the aircraft. Finally, after the best approach and parameters are selected, the functionality of this brain control scheme will be tested in a high fidelity simulator as well as in a real life UAV, which will provide the basis for the applicability of this project to future transport systems.

Keywords: brain control,aircraft control,visual feedback,brain signals,brain waves,tactile feedback
Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Denmark,Greece,Netherlands,Netherlands,Norway,Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,Germany,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 62.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19164182.88
EU funding (EUR): 13799999.35
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objectives of the INNWIND.EU project are the high performance innovative design of a beyond-state-of-the-art 10-20MW offshore wind turbine and hardware demonstrators of some of the critical components. These ambitious primary objectives lead to a set of secondary objectives, which are the specific innovations, new concepts, new technologies and proof of concepts at the sub system and turbine level. The progress beyond the state of the art is envisaged as an integrated wind turbine concept with i) a light weight rotor having a combination of adaptive characteristics from passive built-in geometrical and structural couplings and active distributed smart sensing and control, ii) an innovative, low-weight, direct drive generator and iii) a standard mass-produced integrated tower and substructure that simplifies and unifies turbine structural dynamic characteristics at different water depths. A lightweight smart blade design will be demonstrated on an appropriate scale relevant for rotor aeroelastics. The drive train innovations include a super conducting generator; pseudo magnetic drive train and a light weight re-design of the nacelle for reduced tower top mass. The superconducting generator technology and the pseudo magnetic drive technology will be demonstrated at relevant scales by participating industry. The concepts are researched individually at the component level but also at the wind turbine system level in an integrated approach. Their benefits are quantified through suitable performance indicators and their market deployment opportunities are concretely established in two dedicated integrating work packages. The consortium comprises of leading Industrial Partners and Research Establishments focused on longer term research and innovation of industrial relevance. The project addresses the heart of the Long Term R&D Programme of the New Turbines and Components strand of the European Wind Initiative (EWI) established under SET-Plan, the Common European Policy for Energy Technologies.

Keywords: upscaling,cost reduction,innovation
Novel Composite Oxides by Combinatorial Material Synthesis for Next Generation All-Oxide-Photovoltaics (ALLOXIDEPV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3904760.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999674.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The global market for photovoltaic (PV) cells that are converting sunlight into electricity almost doubled in 2010 to reach a massive 18.2 GW, nearly three times size of the market back in 2008. Crystalline silicon is the most common PV material today with a market share of more than 80%. New developments such as electrolyte based dye-sensitized solar cells as well as organic polymer cells have experienced remarkable progress in the laboratory but penetration into the market is still far away due to stability and sealing problems. Thus, this project will develop all-oxide photovoltaic cells based on nano-composite materials using combinatorial synthesis methods in conjunction with large throughput characterization and computational data analysis. Oxides are chemically stable, many of them are not hazardous, abundant and can furthermore be produced by low-cost methods. To challenge the inherent limitations of pure oxide semiconductors novel composite materials consisting of two or more pure metal oxides using various mixing ratios will be developed. Moreover, new fabrication techniques, powerful characterization tools and computational analysis methods will be employed that have not been available yet for material science. Combinatorial synthesis methods used in biology, chemistry and pharmaceutical research will be adopted to screen efficiently through a large amount of oxide compositions.

Keywords: photovoltaic cells,oxides,combinatorial synthesis,light absorption