Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED, NOVEL BIOSENSOR PLATFORM FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUE DETECTION (FOODSCAN)

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: Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,Cyprus,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1356821.25
EU funding (EUR): 993095.4
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the FOODSCAN project is to develop a novel and automated biosensor platform for pesticide and other chemical residue detection incorporating membrane-engineered cells with pesticide-specific antibodies. The system is primarily based on the Bioelectric Recognition Assay (BERA) technology. Furthermore a specially designed electronic interface is realized in order to acquire and manipulate the corresponding signals from the real time analysis. The pre-production prototype developed during this project is a Bioelectric Recognition Assay (BERA) sensor aimed at the detection of organophosphate and carbamate pesticides, 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyalcanoic (MCPA), other phenoxyalcanoic herbicides, or other small organic contaminants, e.g. 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA) (in cork and wine). The product is developed by an SME consortium based in Cyprus, Spain, Germany, Greece and Portugal with the support of RTD performers from the UK and Greece. The European farming community is under a number of threats not least due to the increasing demands to produce higher quality food to increasingly stringent standards. They lack the technology to test their produce for the presence of pesticide residues at the site of production. If a system was developed that gave farmers, food companies and distributors the flexibility to test for a range of analytes regularly and in a cost effective way it would allow them to offer remedial solutions quicker than is currently possible. The conventional analysis of pesticide residues in food commodities is a labour intensive procedure. Standard analysis methods include extensive sample pre-treatmentand determination by gas chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography to achieve the necessary selectivity and sensitivity for the different classes of compounds under detection. Therefore, rapid pesticide residue testing is necessary.

Keywords: petsicide-specific antibodies,cell-based biosensors,organophosphate,carbamate,mcpa,tca,phenoxyalcanoic herbicides,small organic contaminants,rapid,low-cost & highthroughput testing system
Cost-Effective Solar AiR conditioning (CESAR)

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,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 985458.5
EU funding (EUR): 672100.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Summer electricity use is growing year upon year, mainly due to air conditioning (AC) demand. Electricity grids are increasingly experiencing problems during the hottest summer days, to deal with the increasing demand of electricity from air conditioning systems. Absorption cooling can be a solution to this growing problem, as it can supply cooling from a heating source, with only a very small electricity input (negligible) in comparison with traditional AC systems. Due to the use of renewable energies such as solar thermal or other residual/waste energy as heat source, the primary energy consumption is much lower than with conventional chillers. However, solar cooling technology has a lot of barriers that delay the penetration of absorption machines in the market. The most important is the high costs of absorption chillers, as well as lack of standardization, market familiarity and compatibility with building design methodologies. The fact that all absorption machines based on LiBr technology currently in the market need a cooling tower is also a barrier for absorption chillers market acceptance. The objective of the CESAR project is to develop a small scale, low cost absorption cooling unit, with efficient ambient air heat dissipation and which can use renewable heat sources and therefore have a minimum electricity use. This goal will be achieved by: - Use of new working fluids and fabrication materials never used in commercial absorption chillers, more efficient and cost-effective than commonly used alternatives - Development of efficient, compact, cost-effective and simplified heat exchangers - Development of control systems for efficient operation of the absorption machine - Development of a friendly-use design tool for installers and planners in order to design and dimension solar cooling installations with the new absorption machine in an easy way

Keywords: solar energy,absorption cooling,solar cooling,lithium bromide
An innovative environmentally friendly gelcoating technology for composites for marine and wind-Turbine applications to reduce VOC emissions, processing time and cost. (INGECT)

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: United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden,Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1398320.11
EU funding (EUR): 1067137.7
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Gel coats are applied to fibre-reinforced composite materials for aesthetic or protection purposes. Styrene is an essential part of these gelcoats, with ~25% of this released during possessing. These styrene emissions cause irritation and neurological effects as well as possibly being carcinogen. One of the biggest negative effects of styrene is the perceived odour both by the workforce and neighbourhoods. As a result styrene emissions are limited under the Solvent Emissions Directive. Although the adoption of closed mould technologies for the production of composite parts have gone a long way to reducing styrene emissions during manufacture, gelcoating must still be undertaken under open-mould conditions as no viable in-mould gelcoating technology is commercially available. We are developing an innovative in-mould gel-coating process, requiring minimal equipment modification (and therefore low capital expenditure) based on the innovative application of low-viscocity gelcoats and a spacer fabric. The proof-of-concept work undertaken to date has this technology has the potential to achieve significant benefits beyond the current state of the art to produce parts that are fit for purpose whilst reducing styrene emissions to <5ppm. The overall aim of the InGeCt project is to develop technical textiles and gel-coat formulations in combination with process design and optimisation that will enable significant reductions in VOC emissions whilst reducing production times by 18.5% and manufacturing cost by 10.5%. Our technology will therefore be very attractive to composites processors, giving significant economic and societal benefits to consumers and manufacturers. The SME consortium target a significant penetration of the EU market within a 5 year period, achieving direct annual sales of over €100 million. The technology will make a significant contribution to reducing VOC emissions, enabling EU SMEs to meet their immediate and forthcoming legislative requirements.

Keywords: composites proessing,gelcoating,in-mould processing,styrene,voc emissions.
Development of an automated digital radiography system for the inspection of plastic electronics (PLASTRONICSSPEC)

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: Romania,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1434540.6
EU funding (EUR): 1103800.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Plastic electronics is a general term used to describe electronic devices based on electrically conducting polymers i.e. organic electronic materials as opposed to solid state inorganic electronic materials like silicon etc. These materials hold promise of a future revolution in consumer electronics because both the devices and circuit connections based on them can be physically flexible and produced from solution by ink jet printing, coating and spraying, all far cheaper and faster processes than the etching and photolithography systems required to produce the inflexible inorganic devices and printed circuit boards which dominate the present electronics market. Furthermore Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays compared with LCD/LED displays and plasma displays provide superior images and need 70% less power. Prototype or first generation OLED display panels and various other plastic electronics devices have already appeared, and the global market is forecast to grow from the present level of €0.5bn to €96bn by 2019 and €330bn by 2029. However, many types of defect specific to plastic electronics processing arise during manufacture and as there is no online inspection, scrap rates after production are very high, keeping the costs high, which threatens the market promise. So the goal of the PlastronicsSpec project is to perform real time, online, and 100% volumetric inspection by digital, real time radiography leading to automatic and instant rejection of all defective product and instant production process corrections with minimum wastage. Novel, simultaneous multimode signal processing will be used to maximise the use of X-ray photons from a wide X-ray viewing angle, resulting in the smallest possible minimum detectable defect depths (2.5nm) with the highest spatial resolutions (100um) limited only by quantum fluctuations. It is estimated that from 2015-18 the ROI for the SMEs/EU 303:1 and the economic benefit of wide acceptance of the technology €4bn

Keywords: photolithography systems,defects,high resolution printing methods,sensitive organic materials,pinholes,cracks and grain boundaries,pore effect,image pattern recognition,eliminates human errors
Development of a highly efficient, innovative beverage COOLer (ICOOL)

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: Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Portugal,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1279494.0
EU funding (EUR): 985623.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The total EU stock of beverage coolers is currently 6.3 million, which is nearly 50% of the total number of commercial display refrigerators in use. So far commercial refrigerators have remained outside EC legislation. However, this is likely to change as it is now generally accepted that commercial refrigerators offer significant potential for energy savings. A recent working document for the implementation of the Ecodesign Directive outlines several legislative options that will encourage and mandate significant energy efficiency improvements for beverage coolers. Compared to similar sized domestic refrigerators, the energy consumption of commercial beverage coolers can be over 3 times higher, even after allowing for increased heat loads, due to use of glass doors, for example. This is the result of a combination of factors such as: i) lack of legislation and standardization; ii) user requirements in relation to pull down (cooling rate of products within a set time frame), which means that the refrigeration system of most coolers is significantly oversized; iii) the fact that the large majority of equipment owners do not operate the beverage coolers and hence do not pay for operating cost. This means that cost and design are the most important drivers and not efficiency. We aim to overcome these barriers by development of unique technology that makes effective use of phase change materials (PCM) within beverage coolers. This will allow downsizing of the cooling system, thereby significantly increasing energy efficiency. It is our aim to achieve a 75% saving compared to a base case cooler. The market opportunity will be worth at least €700 million per annum in Europe alone. In order to exploit our development we will introduce a radically new business model that will allow equipment owners and users to share the benefits of energy savings. This will motivate equipment owners to make the additional investment required for more energy efficient equipment

Keywords: phase change materials,refrigeration,intelligent control
Clean Aerospace Regions (CARE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Poland,Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Portugal,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2522089.0
EU funding (EUR): 2269392.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Green technologies are key competitive advantages of future air transport systems. Major environmental challenges are at stake in aircraft life cycle management, air traffic management and integration of air transport into multimodal transport system. Being aware of the importance to seize those trends to ensure the competitiveness of their local actors, European regions have to carefully orientate their R&D funding in order to match these aviation technological and environmental challenges but also to generate economic growth and to secure and increase their level of employment. The CARE proposal will reinforce the R&D networking already instigated at regional level through research-driven clusters and will increase the competitiveness of these regions in the field of Green Aircraft Transportation by: - enhancing more effective investments in R&D at regional level, - stimulating the setting-up of additional regional research-orientated clusters (mentoring activity) - catalyzing synergies and public private partnerships both on finance and research agendas standpoints at the European scale. In particular, CARE will provide partner regions with a Joint Action Plan tailored at enhancing competitiveness of regional research actors through a coordinated use of sources, thus fostering cross-fertilization and partnership building. Further, a business plan will be supplied to identify and schedule possible financing sources with the ultimate goal to set up joint R&D proposals to European funding instruments. Actions undertaken in CARE will be strongly promoted, mainly in Europe but also at international level. The CARE proposal will be performed by a consortium of mature aeronautics research-orientated regional clusters gathering large and small enterprises, research actors and local authorities plus one partner dealing with intermodal activities and two less-mature aeronautics cluster to be mentored.CARE will last 36 months for a total budget of about 2.2 M€.

Keywords: research-driven clusters - triple helix concept - regional r&d policy - aerospace - green air transportation - networking - mentoring
An Integrated and Modular Bio-Monitoring Ballast Water Treatment System based on Advanced UV Plasma Technology Delivering Maximum Performance and Lowest System Lifetime Cost (UV-MON)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Türkiye,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1541939.4
EU funding (EUR): 1196600.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Ballast Water poses a significant threat to the environment since it contains invasive species which are discharged to sea. The cost for controlling invasive species is very high (€9.6 - €12.7 billion). Prevention is better, hence the IMO introduced standards in 2004 (due to come into force). The Convention requires ships to have Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) system installed by 2016. BWT is an evolving technology. However, it is generally accepted across industry that viable BWT consist of at least 2 stages targeting both macro and micro IS separately. Filtration is generally as the 1st stage and according to a Lloyd register survey and one we conducted ourselves, UV seem to be relatively the most preferred 2nd stage treatment as the water treated by UV seems to have the least effect on the environment and the ship. UV treated water is less likely to cause corrosion of the ballast tanks compared to other commonly used treatment such as Electrolysis. However, they have the highest operation cost/m3 and their performance can be affected by water turbidity and frigidity. Hence, as UV is the most preferred and with the highest cost of ownership, the rest of the market will migrate towards UV systems if effort can be made to reduce the ownership cost and overall performance issues for a given water turbidity and frigidity level. The highest cost for UV is energy needed for a given dose, maintenance and replacement of UV lamps. We have identified a way we would be able to reduce the operation cost of using UV still with a high efficacy under difficult water conditions. The UV-Mon project will aim to develop an integrated and modular BWT system that intelligently combines a novel electromagnetic wave generated UV plasma treatment system with information from a bio-monitoring system (micro-organisms concentration level and water quality/turbidity indicator) in order to optimise the UV dosage required at filling/discharge to completely eliminate the viable micro-organisms.

Keywords: bio-monitor,uv electrodeless plasma
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL INSPECTION TECHNIQUES FOR TRAIN AXLES (AXLEINSPECT)

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: United Kingdom,France,Spain,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1354840.0
EU funding (EUR): 1027400.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The structural integrity of wheel sets used in rolling stock is of great importance to the rail industry and its customers. A number of rail accidents have been directly related to the failure of train axles, leading to increased demands for their inspection and maintenance. Visual inspection and Magnetic Particle Inspection are the current standard practices used for manual non-destructive testing of axles. However, these processes require removal of the wheelset from the wagon/locomotive bogie and full disassembly in order to facilitate access. Inspection is also carried out by some wagon providers using ultrasonic testing (UT) but its application is also limited to disassembled wheelsets. An axle on a wheelset can be connected to a number of ancillary components including breaks and bearings. The disassembly (and reassembly) of axles from the wheelsets/wagon bogey is therefore very time consuming and expensive. There is evidence that even partial disassembly and reassembly could introduce future axle reliability problems. To minimise disruption to their train services but ensure continued safety, train operators require frequent and regular inspection methods that allow quick inspection at the depot with the minimum of wheelset and bogie disassembly. The AxleInspect project aims to develop new inspection techniques based on phased array ultrasonic and electromagnetic techniques suitable for the inspection of both solid and hollow axles. For solid axles, inspection techniques are to be developed that inspect from the end face of the axles using new and novel phased array ultrasonic inspection technology. For hollow axles, probes based on UT and electromagnetic inspection techniques are to be developed, enabling detection of surface breaking cracks that cannot be found by ultrasonic inspection. These new techniques will allow inspection of axles whilst they are still attached to their supporting bogey, allowing minimal wheelset disassembly from the train.

Keywords: structural integrity,non-destructive testing,wheelset,inspection,ultrasonic testing,breaks,bearings,electromagnetic,solid axles,hollow axles,phased array ultrasonic technique,surface cracks
Offshore Wind Turbine Towers – A Quicker, Cheaper Flange Supply Route (RINGMAN)

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,United Kingdom,Denmark,Czechia,Spain,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500041.01
EU funding (EUR): 1132700.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

There is a tendency to higher power offshore wind turbines, leading to larger turbine towers (5m diameter and greater) and a requirement for large diameter connection flanges between the tower sections and between the tower and foundation transition pieces. Currently, forged rings are specified, with inherently high cost and few suppliers worldwide. This leads to long lead times and higher costs for these strategic parts. RingMan will develop an alternative manufacturing route (using lower-cost cold rolled plate) which will enable the fabrication of large diameter wind tower flanges to be undertaken by our SME consortium members. The project will enable the partners to commission: • Development of high quality, low distortion, thick section electron beam welding fabrication and machining to produce flanges from readily available cold rolled steel plate material. • Understanding of the flange property requirements and how these can be met by a fabricated flange leading to design tools to enable wind turbine tower designers to specify these products. • Procedures for inspection that will aim to ensure that the parts manufactured meet or exceed the required performance properties.

Keywords: wind turbine towers flange welding