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The development and verification of a novel modular air cooled condenser for enhanced concentrated solar power generation (MACCSOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Ireland,Spain,Australia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5912100.2
EU funding (EUR): 4088546.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop and verify a novel modular air cooled condenser (MACC) for concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. This technology will enable CSP plants to increase net power output, and reduce costs compared to existing dry cooled plants. Conventional dry cooling is unresponsive to changes in ambient conditions. However, the MACC will incorporate sensors which detect changes in temperature, ambient wind, and fan flow rate, and control algorithms, which will communicate with these sensors to continuously vary fan speed. The MACC will therefore maintain optimum condenser pressure and temperature irrespective of ambient conditions. As a result, turbine outlet conditions will always be optimised, thus maximising power output and reducing operating costs. Also, because the MACC is modular, installation and maintenance costs will be significantly reduced. The project will first optimise and characterise the performance at module level. Fan control algorithms will be developed and interfaced with temperature and flow sensors which will be developed. At system level, module layouts will be investigated to assess the possibility of harnessing the wind to assist fan operation. Both system and module level development will involve numerical simulation, analytical modelling, physical scale modelling, and measurements on full scale prototypes. The effects of all design options will be assessed using thermodynamic models. Techno-economic modelling will assess the life time cost implications of various design options. To prove the merits of the MACC, full scale testing in an operational CSP plant will be performed. The main outputs of the project will be patented MACC designs, an industrial scale prototype, and dissemination of project activities to ensure a lasting project legacy.

Keywords: modular air cooled condenser,csp,dry cooling,fan speed control,condenser pressure control
The Network is the Business (NISB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Israel,Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4843064.0
EU funding (EUR): 3045924.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Business Network of suppliers, distributors, customers and partners that a company acquires is becoming a competitive asset. The requirement is to continuously and dynamically optimize and adapt this network to the evolving business needs. The “protocol” of Business Networks is the semantic interoperability between businesses enabling the realization of business meaning from the data being communicated within the network. In principle, semantic interoperability is established by creating mappings between metadata and data elements that constitute the business documents that are exchanged among the nodes (businesses) of the network. This project will look into innovative low-cost means of establishing mappings for semantic interoperability while addressing the ever-changing structure of the business network. We claim that this goal can be achieved by employing the inherently low-cost peer-to-peer and pay-as-you-go mechanisms. Specifically, we refer to the following features of low cost business networking mechanisms as The Wisdom of the Network: * As-you-Go Build-Up of the Mappings * Know your Neighbors. A sub-network develops its own business terminology and even its own interpretation of the terminology * Quick Setup. When a node joins a sub-network, it gets the mapping it needs and it benefits from the mappings accumulated in the sub-network * Tolerating Incomplete Information * Decentralized Control

Keywords: future internet,collaboration,value networks,interoperability
Combinatorial Computational Chemistry A new field to tackle environmental problems (C3ENV)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Combinatorial Computational Chemistry is developed as a standard tool to tackle complex problems in chemistry and materials science. The method employs a series of state-of-the-art methods, ranging from empirical molecular mechanics to first principles calculations, as well as of mathematical (graph theoretical and combinatorial) methods. The process is similar as in experimental combinatorial chemistry: First, a large set of candidate structures is generated which is complete in the sense that the best possible structure for a particular purpose must be found among the set. This structure is then identified using computational chemistry. We will apply methodologies at different stages in hierarchical order and successively screen the set of candidate structures. Screening criteria are based on the computer simulations and include geometry, stability and properties of the candidate structures. Detailed characteristics of the final materials will be simulated, including the X-ray diffraction pattern, the electronic structure, and the target properties. We will apply C3 to two important problems of environmental science. (i) We will optimise nanoporous materials to act as molecular sieves to separate water from ethanol, an important task for the production of biofuels. Here, materials are optimised to transport ethanol, but not water (or vice versa). The tuning parameters are the channel size of the material and its polarity. (ii) We will optimise nanoporous materials to transport protons, an important task for the design of energy-efficient fuel cells, by distributing flexible functional groups, acting as hopping sites for the protons, in the framework.

Keywords: biofuels,combinatorial computational chemistry,photoelectrolysis,proton conductance,fuel cells
Server-driven Outbound Web-application Sandboxing (WEBSAND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4865922.0
EU funding (EUR): 3199978.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Since its birth in 1990, the Web has evolved from a simple, stateless delivery mechanism for static hypertext documents to a fully-edged run-time environment for distributed, multi-party applications. Security becomes increasingly important in this context, but is typically only an afterthought in this process. The next wave, the Future Internet, will continue to rely on the same web application technology, while adopting more p2p and mashup-style approaches. Today&apos;s server-centric solutions will give way to a rich and stateful client-centric paradigm with even less manageable security and even more severe threats to the web-based economy of the Future Internet. Data and services from multiple heterogeneous domains, aggregated both on the server-side and on an end-user&apos;s client, demand for a novel, comprehensive security solution that increases the user&apos;s trust into the technological infrastructure. WebSand tackles this demand by departing from the observation that security should be server-driven. Even though security preferences from end-users at the client-side have to be taken into account, only the service developers at the server-side have the necessary expertise and context information to define the policies to be enforced. Moreover, server-driven security can be deployed relatively easily, since much can be achieved without updating the client-side platform. The WebSand framework consists of four major building blocks: (1) a secure interaction model, that allows explicit and fine-grained control concerning incoming Web communication, (2) methods for secure end-to-end information flow control, to enforce confidentiality and integrity properties, (3) behavioral sandbox environments for secure client-side and server-side composition of multi-origin components, and (4) a declarative and expressive policy description mechanism that ties the individual components together into a unified security architecture spanning client and server.

Keywords: web application security,secure web interaction,secure information flow,secure service composition,rich internet application,mashup
Structure and dynamics of catalytically active species from Residual Dipolar Couplings (RDC@CATALYSIS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of chemistry and material science is to create structures, which in turn exhibit specific functions. One class of functional molecules are catalysts. Although homogeneous catalysts are widely used in synthetic chemistry, there is very limited knowledge about the relationship between their activity and their structure and especially dynamics in solution. Based on a first investigation, in which we showed that only after investigating the structural and dynamic properties of a photoswitchable organocatalyst using residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), its reactivity could be understood, it shall be demonstrated within this project, that additional and more accurate structural information on catalytically active species is accessible from RDCs leading to an improved understanding of catalysis. This will finally allow rational catalyst design. The structure in solution and information about solution dynamics is usually obtained from solution state NMR spectroscopy. In contrast to the short-range structural information obtained from the conventional NMR parameters the information obtained from the recently introduced RDCs is global, which allows the relation of non-interacting parts of compounds. RDCs furthermore contain information on dynamics of the system investigated. Especially the time scale on motional information that is accessible is intriguing. With this unique quality of structural information from RDCs in hand, precise structural models for catalytically active species can be constructed. This will certainly lead to a better understanding of catalytic processes and in the end revolutionize catalyst design.

Keywords: structure activity relationship,dynamics,catalytically active species,molecular recognition,nmr-spectroscopy,residual dipolar couplings
The anisotropic universe -- a reality or fluke? (ANISOTROPIC UNIVERSE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Norway
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

During the last decade, a strikingly successful cosmological concordance model has been established. With only six free parameters, nearly all observables, comprising millions of data points, may be fitted with outstanding precision. However, in this beautiful picture a few "blemishes" have turned up, apparently not consistent with the standard model: While the model predicts that the universe is isotropic (i.e., looks the same in all directions) and homogeneous (i.e., the statistical properties are the same everywhere), subtle hints of the contrary are now seen. For instance, peculiar preferred directions and correlations are observed in the cosmic microwave background; some studies considering nearby galaxies suggest the existence of anomalous large-scale cosmic flows; a study of distant quasars hints towards unexpected large-scale correlations. All of these reports are individually highly intriguing, and together they hint toward a more complicated and interesting universe than previously imagined -- but none of the reports can be considered decisive. One major obstacle in many cases has been the relatively poor data quality. This is currently about to change, as the next generation of new and far more powerful experiments are coming online. Of special interest to me are Planck, an ESA-funded CMB satellite currently taking data; QUIET, a ground-based CMB polarization experiment located in Chile; and various large-scale structure (LSS) data sets, such as the SDSS and 2dF surveys, and in the future Euclid, a proposed galaxy survey satellite also funded by ESA. By combining the world s best data from both CMB and LSS measurements, I will in the proposed project attempt to settle this question: Is our universe really anisotropic? Or are these recent claims only the results of systematic errors or statistical flukes? If the claims turn out to hold against this tide of new and high-quality data, then cosmology as a whole may need to be re-written.

Keywords: galaxy catalogs,statistical methods,data analysis
Optimized Infrastructure Services (OPTIMIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10160341.0
EU funding (EUR): 7131090.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

With the challenges of service and infrastructure providers as the point of departure, OPTIMIS focuses on open, scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that allow flexible and dynamic provision of advanced services. The OPTIMIS innovations can be summarized as a combination of technologies to create a dependable ecosystem of providers and consumers that will be the foundation of an efficacious operation of services and infrastructures. This includes innovations for optimizing the whole service lifecycle, starting from service construction. Trust, risk, eco-efficiency and cost are all crucial for optimizing deployment and execution, capturing the essence of the optimized cloud ecosystem produced by the trust on consumers and providers and the risk of not accomplishing specific ecological or economical goals. Adaptive self-preservation is key to meet predicted and unforeseen changes in resource requirements. Identification of new market roles and value activities calls for new business models and investigations of legal and regulatory aspects for governing cloud operation. Part of the OPTIMIS outcome will be architectures, an open specification, and a software toolkit for provisioning of sustainable IT services capable of satisfying key societal and economical needs. OPTIMIS will support the requirements of a variety of scenarios central to the next generation cloud service ecosystem by providing a toolkit with a set of key tools accompanied by reference architectures illustrating their use in a few scenarios of broad interest. The scenarios in focus are (1) service providers utilizing cloud bursting to complement local capacity for peak loads, (2) service providers making use of multiple clouds, and (3) infrastructure providers subcontracting resources in a cloud federation. A core of the OPTIMS Toolkit is the OPTIMIS Base Toolkit comprising tools for assessing and managing aspects of trust, risk, eco-efficiency, and cost. By addressing the whole service lifecycle, taking into account the multitude of future cloud architectures, and a by taking a holistic approach to sustainable service provisioning, OPTIMIS provides a revolutionizing foundation for a reliable, sustainable, and trustful cloud market.

Keywords: infrastructures,cloud,eco-efficiency
Adaptive and innovative Radiation Treatment FOR improving Cancer patients treatment outcomE (ARTFORCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,France,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7929822.2
EU funding (EUR): 5994715.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Loco-regional treatment is the mainstay of cancer cures in non small lung and head and neck cancer. For advanced stage cancer, dose intense multimodality treatment is required yet affected by substantial side effects. Our aim is to improve treatment outcome in locally advanced head and neck and lung cancer patients by: 1. Optimizing local control by introducing novel radiation techniques resulting in redistribution of the radiation dose, creating inhomogeneous dose distribution towards the most active part of the tumour instead of conventional homogenous doses. This redistribution can be performed without increase of toxicity. As recently reported radiation accidents in the US demonstrate, QA is of outmost importance for safe radiation delivery in complex treatments. To assure accurate delivery over time, we will monitor both the patient’s geometry as well as the delivered dose using image guided adaptive plan modifications and 3D in-vivo dosimetric verification. 2. Maximizing the benefit of combined modality treatment Both cisplatin and Cetuximab in combination with radiotherapy have shown to improve local control and survival but both drugs have severe side effects. As these drugs are not active in all patients, there is a large need to select patients which are sensitive to either drug. For this purpose the uptake of Cetuximab will be estimated by imaging tumour uptake with Zr89 labelled Cetuximab, while cisplatin sensitive tumours can be selected by biomarkers. This part was stopped in May 2014. This proposal will: 1 optimise efficiency by selecting patients on treatment specific tumour response predictors and tailoring radiation to most active parts of the tumour. 2 improve quality of life by withholding ineffective, toxic treatments and redistribution of dose. 3 decrease community costs by reserving expensive treatments for those who will benefit. This will be studied in randomized phase II clinical trials in top European institutes, followed by phase III trials outside this proposal.

Keywords: oncology,radiotherapy,combined modality treatment,lung cancer,head and neck cancer,image guided radiotherapy,quality assurance,patient selection,quality of life,adaptive radiotherapy,biomarkers
Quantum Monte-Carlo in mesoscopic devices (MESOQMC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1222176.0
EU funding (EUR): 1222176.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding electronic correlations remains one of the biggest challenges of theoretical condensed matter physics. Mesoscopic systems, where electronic confinement can be externally controlled, are natural test beds for understanding the effects of correlations, and the lack of proper techniques to take them into account is acute. This project aims at developing new tools for simulating correlated quantum mesoscopic devices. We will combine standard approaches for transport in mesoscopic quantum systems with new quantum Monte-Carlo algorithms designed to capture correlations in those devices. We will use modern programming paradigms to develop a versatile numerical platform designed to be easily used by other research groups. These numerical tools will be closely related to existing analytical approaches so that we shall be able to make contact with standard many-body theory while go beyond the limitations of the analytical approaches. We will apply this new set of techniques to several problems that have been puzzling the community for some time including quantum transport in low-density two-dimensional gases for both bulk disordered systems (“Two dimensional metal-insulator transition”) and quantum point contacts (“0.7 anomaly”). We will also apply our techniques to several new problems of increasing importance: at finite-frequency, electron-electron interactions play a central role and must be taken into account properly. We will discuss high frequency measurements such as quantum capacitances, ac conductance or photo-assisted transport in a variety of materials (twodimensional gases of electrons or holes, graphene, semi-conductor nanowires…) and leverage on our new numerical tools to go beyond the standard mean field description.

Keywords: correlated systems. quantum monte-carlo.