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A RAPID NON-INVASIVE INSTRUMENT FOR DETERMINING THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL POROSITY OF PARTS MANUFACTURED BY POWDER METALLURGY (SINTEST)

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,Spain,Türkiye,Denmark,Spain,Germany,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1481610.8
EU funding (EUR): 1095628.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Powder Metallurgy (P/M) is a major manufacturing route for many industries. While the demand for P/M parts in its traditional automotive market is predicted to grow, future sector expansion depends directly upon its capability to manufacture zero-defect, complex mechanical P/M parts for industries such as aerospace and medicine. To comply with such standards, parts manufacturing must be optimized. However, consortium SMEs lack time-efficient and systematic instruments and procedures for the inspection of the inner structure of parts, as well as expert guidance to solve the complex problem of P/M, zero-defect optimization, constituting this a significant threat to their cost-effectiveness and competitiveness within the industry. The lack of an adequate inspection system has important implications from the point of view of quality assurance, since it increases the design costs and the time of a tool set for a new product, which is made with a trial-and-error procedure and which generates surplus costs. Consortium SMEs have identified a clear need for a non-invasive instrument for determining the porosity of P/M parts. The proposed SINTEST technology will increase consortium SME Powder Metallurgy competitive advantage by offering a highly effective and cost-efficient in-situ system that can detect deficiencies in sintered parts. Through the project, a new efficient and cost-effective inspection tool will be developed based on ultrasonic technology, which makes it possible to provide a global density map of sintered parts. The commercial objective of this SINTEST proposal is the development of a technology to better control the P/M output into the market, increasing manufacturer reliability for the supply of complex parts and EU competitiveness, as well as opening up a host of new markets for the sector, both within Europe and worldwide.

Keywords: ultrasonic inspection,ultrasound signal processing,deflection source analysis
Dual electric-acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing (DUAL-PRO)

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: Belgium,France,Netherlands,France,France,Italy,Romania,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1243785.0
EU funding (EUR): 892879.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Scientific and technological background. To date, individuals with sensorineural hearing loss may benefit from either acoustic stimulation (classical hearing aids) or electric stimulation (cochlear implants). Classical hearing aids are best suited to amplify low frequencies and as such, provide important information for the perception of music and sounds in background noise, but do not support high levels of speech understanding. Cochlear implants, on the other hand, by stimulating the middle and high frequencies, enable many profoundly deaf patients to reach high levels of speech intelligibility, but are inadequate for the perception of music. Main objectives of the proposed project: (i) to optimise deaf patients’ hearing experience by developing a new hearing device which combines both types of stimulation in the same ear; (ii) to develop a test battery for prosody reception, i.e. the perception of language rhythm and melody; and (iii) to use this new prosody test battery as a quality measure for the current generation of cochlear implants and classical hearing aids, as well as for the newly developed hybrid electric-acoustic prototype.

Keywords: low frequency hearing,language assessment,prosody
Development of novel composite material for safety helmets, boat hulls and lifeboat containers that has self-repairing and visual inspection features (LAPI)

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: France,Estonia,France,Sweden,Estonia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1454675.4
EU funding (EUR): 1109242.95
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Our idea is to develop the novel composite material that contains microencapsulated polymer spheres containing coloured resins. These spheres will provide direct visual inspection possibilities as after impact the surface of the composite will change the colour depending on the severity of the impact. This composite material possesses also self-repairing feature for due to impact these shells containing different resins will broke and disengaged substance will rapidly repair damages of composite material.

Keywords: processing technology for "bruisable" and self-repairing composites,guidelines for technology use
An Innovative Soft Skinned Fire Resistant Cable for Fire Safety Applications Manufactured Using Integrated Cold Gas Dynamic Spraying and Polymer Extrusion Technologies (FIRE SHIELD)

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,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1306656.0
EU funding (EUR): 998468.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

There are 2.5 million reported fires, causing 20-25,000 deaths, 250-500,000 injuries and extensive environmental damage each year in the EU. The cost of fire damage to the EU is estimated at 100 billion Euros. Fire safety equipment such as fire alarms and emergency lighting is extremely effective at reducing the damage and cost associated with fires. Fire resistant cabling that transmits power and data are an essential part of fire safety systems. The global market for fire resistance cable is estimated at 3 billion Euros p.a., with Europe accounting for 1.4 billion Euros p.a. European SMEs are increasingly having to improve the fire resistance performance of their cables to ensure that they are able to achieve the specification of the Construction Products Directive (CPD). Current soft-skinned fire resistant cables consist of insulated copper wires with a metallic shield layer that is applied by wrapping metallised polymer films around the cables. As a result of this wrapping process, there is always a ‘slot’ that runs along the length of the cables where the metallised films are joined. These ‘slots’ are invariably the point of failure when the cables are subjected to fire. The proposed ‘Fire Shield’ project will develop an innovative flexible polymer processing industrial extrusion processing that will combine traditional extrusion technologies with the relatively new innovation of dynamic cold spraying to spray the shields directly on to the cables. This will enable the consortium partners to produce soft-skinned fire resistant cables with a solid shield layer whose fire performance greatly exceeding current data cables on the market. This will give our SME consortium global market leadership leading to sales in excess of 100 million Euros 5 years after the project ends and increase profits across the consortium by over 7 million Euros.

Keywords: fire safety,cable
NanoAir, Development of an automated instrument for real-time, on-site qualitative analysis of full-range breathable airborne particles, including nanoparticles, using XRD technology (NANOAIR)

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: France,France,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,Estonia,Spain,Austria,Sweden,Denmark,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1415326.3
EU funding (EUR): 1073792.5
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

There is a need for better measurement instruments for analysis of airborne particles, in particular nanoparticles. Use of powders, nanomaterials/ceramics, and nanoparticles is rising fast. Occupational health problems are present at a wide range of different work places due to airborne particulates. Toxic particles such as asbestos and silica are responsible for the majority of particle related illnesses. The overall impacts of the NanoAir project are to reduce number of deaths and illnesses caused by workplace related exposure to particles. The air pollution detection market is growing fast, as new concerns are identified especially for indoor air pollution. The market is under pressure from USA from many new high-tech solutions, and progression regarding air pollution legislation and NP industries. Thus the concept of the project is to develop a new method to analyse airborne particles, onsite, real-time and with a high quality readout. The method can identify the particle types together with the size distribution. In the project we have a new idea for the development of an improved particle sampling system, which will allow collecting particles with a high efficiency and a wide range of particle sizes, including the nano-size regime. This will allow much improved analysis results and sensitivity for a wide range of particle types and sizes. This sampling system together with a mobile X-ray diffraction analysis technique opens up for new possibilities within air quality detection, especially within the capability to analyse nanoparticles. Detection and analysis of nanoparticles may be a very crucial field in the future air quality analysis, due to a rapidly increase in use of nanomaterials and nanoparticles in building materials, paintings, cleaning products, cosmetics, etc. At the same time, new research have indicated very large potential risks for man-made nanoparticles, due to a very deep deposition in the lungs and high chemical reactivity.

Keywords: workplace aerosol monitor alarm nanoparticles realtime onsite continuous xrd
Development of a Cost Effective, Low-Maintenance, On-Line Instrument to Detect Heavy Metal Concentrations in Wastewaters (METELCAD)

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,Malta,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,Czechia,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1395722.0
EU funding (EUR): 1015081.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

All contaminated water, whether originating in industry, agriculture or households, causes damage to the environment and to human health. Industrial wastewater, contaminated by heavy metals, migrates to surface and underground water sources. Heavy metals are elements that have a high density and are toxic or poisonous even at low concentrations. In addition to wastewater, sewer sludge, the residual semi-solid material remaining from urban and industrial wastewater treatment processes, also contains high levels of heavy metals. Consortium members of the current METELCAD project recognize that with the advent of increasing environmental EC Directives, there is a critical need in Europe to develop a low cost, and efficient detection technology for metal contaminated wastewater to safeguard public health and reduce pollution and clean up costs. METELCAD will allow consortium SMEs to detect heavy metal presence in industrial wastewater before it is released into the environment or before it reaches the sludge stage. The commercial objective of the proposal is to develop an on-line, low maintenance, on-site, continuous monitoring technology utilizing electrolyte cathode glow discharge technique to monitor heavy metal contaminated wastewaters that are loaded with high fat emulsion. This cost-effective technology will facilitate compliance with EU environmental legislation in a business-friendly manner, facilitating industrial wastewater management. The proposed technology is also relevant to other industrial sectors including ferrous and non-ferrous metals industry.

Keywords: glow discharge,electrolyte,cathode,heavy metals,atomic emission spectrometry
New Process and Machinery for Microparts Moulding based on Ultrasound excitation (SONOPLAST)

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,Netherlands,France,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1260356.25
EU funding (EUR): 880000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of Sonoplast is to enable a completely revolutionary concept of plastification and moulding process of micro and mini parts based on the use of ultrasounds to respond flexibly, reliably and cost effectively to the need of micro system suppliers for the production of complex shaped and functional μ-parts. The objective of the Sonoplast project is the development and construction of the first ultrasounds based moulding machine for the production of plastic parts in the micro and mini scale size. The development of the new machine will need the complementary production of a new concept of mould and plastic feeding system adapted to the physical principles of ultrasounds and mechanical features (kinematics) of the new moulding machine. Thus Sonoplast is a project bottom-up oriented because the involved SMEs companies cover the whole supplying chain, showing complementary skills in the product development (product design, mould making, injection moulding, injection machine manufacturing).

Keywords: plastic processing,sonochemistry,rheology,ultrasounds excitement,micormoulding,injection moulding machines,machine tools,plastic characterisation,process characterisation
Development of an ultrasonic technique, sensors and systems for the volumetric examination of alumino-thermic rail welds (RAILECT)

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,Poland,France,Greece,Lithuania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1486487.94
EU funding (EUR): 1120350.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In 2004 an estimated 5 billion passenger journeys will be made in the UK, France and Germany and the market in the three countries is worth approximately €40 billion. [Ref. 1] . Based on the extrapolation of data relating to the UK, French and German railways [Ref 1], the 500,000 kms of rail [Ref. 2] on the European rail network has an average estimated 5000 rail breaks annually with about 1500 due to weld failure. Although the number of weld failures is relatively small compared to the estimated 11 million alumino-thermic welds on the European network, it still accounts for about 20% of the total 7000+ rail failures each year [Ref. 3]. There is no current available NDT method for the economic and reliable volumetric examination of alumino-thermic welds. This proposal describes the development of a rapid ultrasonic method for the safe and reliable NDT examination of the entire volume of in-situ alumino-thermic welds. The proposed ultrasonic system could be quickly deployed on track using a clamp-on device. The inspection scans will be carried out in a pre-determined sequence, and then the results compared with defect acceptance criteria that will be generated in the project. To achieve this objective, a rigorous analysis of the material properties, the defect interaction with the ultrasonic beams and the design of optimum scanning procedures will first be carried out. It is expected that the scans will be implemented by means of electronic scanning using novel phased arrays and multiple probes. The acceptance criteria will be generated by both Engineering Critical Assessment and fatigue tests on rail samples.

Keywords: ultrasonics modelling,defect interaction phased array rail alumino-thermic welds acceptance
Low cost, easy to use Intelligent Irrigation Scheduling System (WATER-BEE)

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,Spain,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Malta,Spain,Estonia,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470255.0
EU funding (EUR): 1107614.2
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Agriculture, the largest industry in the world, is also the biggest threat to the environment. According to the WWF, agriculture wastes 60% or 1,500 trillion litres, of the 2,500 trillion litres of water it uses each year - which is 70% of the world’s accessible water. One of the main culprits is inefficient water irrigation systems. Looking at the European context, 65% of total water consumption, irrigated agriculture now constitutes the biggest water consumer in the Mediterranean, where drought is becoming an increasing problem. If water is not managed more wisely, drought will become chronic and people will suffer more as water for other basics such as drinking, hygiene and cooking will become scarce. And this is not a problem that is merely confined to the Mediterranean region of Europe, as there are increasing reports of water shortages and drought in such regions as South East England, Germany and many other parts of Europe. Drought is currently having a devastating effect on the European economy, costing about €11 billion in Europe in 2003. In summer 2005, in Spain alone the agricultural sector lost more than €2 billion as a result of drought. In light of a real need to improve the efficiency of irrigation systems and prevent the misuse of water, the overall aim of this project is to develop an intelligent irrigation scheduling system which will enable irrigation farmers to optimise the use of water and only irrigate where and when need for as long as needed. The system will integrate innovations in the field of low cost wireless sensor networks, soil sensor technology, intelligent software in order to arrive at a solution that will be easy to use for farmers and that will be flexible and robust enough for its use in farm environments. Such an intelligent irrigation scheduling system would have a major impact in terms of water and cost savings and environmental protection.

Keywords: zig-bee wireless technology,intelligent agents,water saving
HIGH RELIABILITY, LOW COST, STACKABLE POWER SUPPLY FOR SECURITY SYSTEMS (SECURITAC)

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,Hungary,Denmark,Germany,Czechia,Türkiye,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1208036.98
EU funding (EUR): 904481.28
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Security systems (including fire, intrusion, access control, and voice alarm) typically contain an AC-DC power supply to deliver power to the system and to charge and maintain 12V batteries, which provide the “secondary source” during a mains failure. The combined power supply-charger-battery system represents a key component of such systems in terms of cost and contribution to system reliability. For the SME manufacturer and installer, the manufacturing, inventory, document control, and service costs associated with the provision of a wide range of power supplies to address the market is significant. In addition, as amendments are made to the applicable EN standards (EN54-4/A2, EN50131-6, EN60849, etc) manufacturers are often required to re-design, re-test and re-certify each power supply design, which represents significant actual and opportunity costs. As such, SME consortium members have identified a need to address the costs associated with existing security system power supplies, and at the same time significantly improve the manufacturability, reliability and the feature set of these key components. The stackable (load sharing) approach offers increased reliability through design and redundancy and cooler operation by spreading component heat over a larger surface area. Manufacturing costs are minimized via the manufacture of high volumes of a common module to suit a wide product range, and the need for only one test fixture and test procedure. The approach also enables a given system to configured for a range of standby times (eg 24 to 72 hours) as required by the customer. SME participants plan integrate the SECURITAC power supply as a key component in their own products and installations, and to sell it to other manufacturers in the form of an OEM module.

Keywords: power supply,switched mode,load sharing,current sharing,redundant,uninterruptable,stackable