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An Energy Efficient Air Conditioning systems with Temperature and Humidity independent controls based on the combination of a Liquid Desiccants Cycle with an adapted conventional air cooling system (NANOCOOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Czechia,Israel,Taiwan, Province of China,Spain,Poland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4824624.01
EU funding (EUR): 3250000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Air-conditioning is a rapidly growing electrical end-use in EU. A/C systems reduce temperature of the ambient air while removing humidity. However such combined air conditioning/dehumidification is generally inefficient. A promising approach is represented by Hybrid Liquid Desiccant (HLD) systems, where the latent load is removed by a liquid desiccant dehumidifier, while the sensible load is removed by a conventional vapor compression air cooler. The heat required for regeneration of the liquid desiccants needs however to be provided by outer sources like natural gas or solar collectors. Furthermore almost all metal alloys are corroded by the most effective liquid desiccants. HLD systems are therefore not penetrating the market. Our goal is to develop an innovative HLD system in the range 100-200 kW, where waste heat from the condenser is used for regeneration of the desiccants. The energy demand by this process is 55% of the conventional technique. In cases of severe humid environments, like swimming pools, or kitchens, the energy savings can achieve easily levels of 65%-70%. Several innovative components have to be developed, namely: - Two multifunctional heat exchangers with high corrosion resistance for either water vapour absorption from the air flow or desiccant regeneration; - Development of a liquid-liquid heat exchanger with high corrosion resistance for desiccant regeneration process pre-heat (liquid-liquid desiccant). Based on the promising results of the FP7 Thermonano project, thermally conductive polymer nano-composites will be considered as material for these components and shaped into innovative engineered heat exchange surface. The partners foresee an initial market worth up to 180 MEuro by 2020, generating/maintaining 4000 job opportunities for skilled operators and installers. The partners expect that the intended HVAC solution will allow cumulative savings on energy bill of at least 60 MEuro with a pay-back time below 2 years in case of 50% use.

Keywords: energy efficiency,hvac,polymer nano-composites heat exchangers
Responsible innovation Agenda for Competitive European transport industries up to 2050 (RACE2050)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Norway,Israel,Sweden,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1324516.1
EU funding (EUR): 1203158.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

RACE2050 foresight study aims to identify key success factors for a sustainable growth of the European Transport industry and for policies which can increase its strength in a long perspective up to 2050. By integrating the tremendous available foresight intelligence into a comparative synopsis, we will be able to compare and assess various visions and especially different policies to reach these goals. The results of this analysis will be discussed with experts from the transport industry, research, policy, and the foresight field. By this, we will come up with weighted explanations and long duree core concepts for a sustainable strength of the transport industry. By studying the actual impacts of past foresight studies we will learn how to present our own integrative foresight synopsis and what to expect from transport industry and policy. Important drivers of change will be extracted by analyzing current policies, emerging technologies, energy and environment aspects, demand forces, geopolitical trends and other relevant domains. General Morphological Analysis (GMA) will then be used to integrate and assess a multitude of driving forces for alternative scenarios. Wild Cards analysis will provide additional important input to the final outcomes: novel scenarios for 2030 and 2050 on the competitiveness of the European transport industry. The scenario construction will be supported by a web-based interactive foresight synopsis tool, envisioned to create a long-term legacy for stakeholders, lasting beyond the duration of the project.

Keywords: european transport industry,innovation,global competiveness,foresight study,delphi method,wild card method,general morphological analysis,integrative scenarios,synopsis tool
An all-encompassing, intelligent safety and asset management system for highway maintenance (SAFELANE)

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,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1157754.8
EU funding (EUR): 880405.3
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Road maintenance is one of the most dangerous occupations in Europe. Despite stringent health & safety standards over 50% of UK road workers reported a near miss with a vehicle and the large majority of injuries or fatalities occur within designated safety areas. These safe zones are either protected by positive protection systems such as concrete barriers or soft barriers such as traffic cones. The latter are mainly used for temporary works. In such a scenario cones may be the only protection a road worker has from traffic. Due to the maturity of Europe’s road network and the rapid deterioration as a result of heavy traffic and weather conditions, temporary road work is increasing. In addition to concerns about safety, preparation of these temporary barriers is a major drain on resources. As a lot of roadwork is carried out at night, barriers are equipped with lanterns. These are typically powered by disposable batteries which only last a short period of time and have to be changed frequently. The Safelane consortium have successfully developed a wireless perimeter protection system that detects an impact to a temporary barrier. However, there are several significant technical hurdles that currently prevent the development of a system that can be applied to every road maintenance scenario. In Safelane we propose to develop an all-encompassing system including; a Smart re-chargeable lantern battery with integrated wireless impact sensor; a Smart alarm base station capable of receiving alerts from individual impact sensors, to warn the workforce; and a device management system enabling road maintenance contractors to effectively manage temporary work sites via a web based graphical user interface. The new Safelane system will therefore help provide early warning of temporary road work barrier breaches and will eliminate the need for manual changing of lantern batteries, reducing battery disposal by over 90%.

Keywords: impact signal analysis,wireless communication,device management,induction charging,power management,web enabled graphical user interface
Sustainable Recycling of Lighting Products (RELIGHT)

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,Sweden,France,Sweden,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1250556.8
EU funding (EUR): 938000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The RELIGHT project seeks to test and develop novel technologies in the niche application of CFL recycling, to determine a cost effective means of recovering high value materials from the product. There is not only a strong market force from RELIGHT SME participants point of view to achieve cleaner fractions; it is also a requirement of the legislation. It is the view of the participants that to achieve only recycling of lamps to low value outlets is not ambitious, and that the industry should be seeking to recover valuable materials back to a high value use. These issues are prerequisite for the lamp recycling industry.

Keywords: material separation,mercury removal,microwave treatment,recycling,cfl
High Brightness COnical REfraction Lasers (HICORE)

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,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1983096.18
EU funding (EUR): 1499000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

A fundamental property of lasers is the ability to propagate and be focused to very small spots with little divergence, termed beam quality. The ability to achieve high power low divergence operation (high brightness) is of paramount importance for many applications, both existing and potential, of laser devices. Effective ways to scale output power without compromising beam quality are limited and often lead to increased complexity and reduced flexibility and efficiency. The main problem hindering laser brightness scaling is heat generation, which leads to a spatial variation in temperature, internal stresses in the laser materials and consequent deterioration in laser quality. The HiCORE project proposes an innovative approach, based on recently published observations, to the key problems associated with the power and brightness scaling of bulk solid-state lasers using Conical Refraction (CR). CR laser devices represent a novel way to mitigate thermal management issues and improve beam quality while reducing cost, complexity and size, all key drivers of competitive advantage in almost every laser market sector. The 5 SME partners have come together to define the research required to enable a supply chain to be formed and advance this exciting technology to market. The RTD performers have been selected as the research leaders in this novel line of photonics to carry out the research necessary property of lasers is the ability to propagate and be focused to very small spots with little divergence, termed beam quality. The ability to achieve high power low divergence operation (high brightness) is of paramount importance for many applications, both existing and potential, of laser devices. HiCORE results can be expected to reinforce Europe's lead in photonics and enable the SMEs to profit from exploitation of the IP they will acquire.

Keywords: photonics,conical refraction,beam quality,high power,efficiency,photonic crystals
Demonstrating the hygienic, energy optimized HYECON products for the foodstuff industry (HYECON2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Netherlands,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1634520.0
EU funding (EUR): 922000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The HYECON2 Demonstration Action is a follow-up project aiming to bridging the gap between the research and development work and results created in the HYCON FP7-SME-2008-1 project (grant agreement no 232501) which ends March 2012. The HYCON project had, as its target, to address major market opportunities within the conveying industry, targeting in particular the slaughtering industry within meat and poultry products, with the aim of providing customers in this industry – and in the foodstuff industry in general - with energy savings, reducing out of specification production and reduced time and cost needed for cleaning. As such the aim has been to develop innovative products that has the potential to significantly increase the participating SME partners but, at the same time, equally improving the competitiveness of European industrial end-users. The objective of the current proposal is to bridge the gap from the R&D work in HYCON and bringing the innovative products to a stage where they can be commercialised. As such the objective is to demonstrate and validate the four different results: the HYECON drum motor, the HYECON CIP system, the HYECON conveying system and the HYECON drop belt conveyor solution. These will all be tested in industrial scale settings forming the basis for a cost-benefit analysis showing the superiority of the HYECON products in comparison to state-of-the-art. This will, among others, be done in the meat- and poultry-industry as this is the sector having the most challenging technology demands due to fouling of the belt by fat & proteins from the slaughtering process as well as having the highest cost for cleaning.

Keywords: conveying,foodstuff,drum motor,hygiene,meat- and poultry,cleaning-in-place
Added-value bioprocessing for Fish raw materials via low-cost Fermentation technologies delivering a PLUS in the sustainable production, consumer safety and quality of highly sensitive fish products (FISHFERMPLUS)

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,Denmark,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1159921.0
EU funding (EUR): 891000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

FishFermPlus targets to support the economic viability and resource-efficiency of SMEs in fish/seafood value chains. Under-utilised, high-quality raw materials from capture fishery and aquaculture production (e.g. homogenised fish flesh from fillet production) will be used for a novel fermentation process with higher cost-efficiency and a more simple implementation than previous mere extraction/purification methods. Instead of isolating components, FishFermPlus will generate multifunctional, fish-tailored ingredients, which will deliver in particular antilisterial/antimicrobial activity and flavour enhancing or texturising properties. SMEs will generate income from the by-product valorisation and the marketing of safe, naturally processed high-quality fish and seafood products with prolonged shelf-life, better palatability and thus higher consumer acceptance. They will benefit from an increased process and food safety control – especially against Listeria monocytogenes which constitutes a main microbial risk in ready-to-eat seafood. SMEs in the processing and ingredients branch will increase their business by producing custom-tailored equipment and compounds. This will be achieved by a concerted applied research program involving 2 RTDs and 4 SME companies from 4 European countries who are dedicated (a) to develop a bioprocessing method under optimal fermentation conditions and process control; (b) to tailor adequate downstream processing to stabilise the processed materials and their functionality; (c) to apply the ingredients for a fish product range that achieves additional product-safety (assessed via viable counts, challenge tests, risk modeling), prolonged shelf-life (microbial, sensory) and high consumer acceptance (preference & concept testing); (d) to critically assess and to disseminate the positive impact of the project results and their contribution to the sustainable use of scarce aquatic resources and current waste minimisation strategies.

Keywords: bioprocess,fermentation,bio-preservation,food quality and safety,fish industry,sustainability,food wastage reduction
Novel Self-cleaning, anti-bacterial coatings, preventing disease transmission on everyday touched surfaces (SELFCLEAN)

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,Sweden,Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1526044.1
EU funding (EUR): 1139000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Hygiene/antimicrobial issues in public places (hospitals, schools, hotels, public transportation etc) are of crucial importance as inattention could lead to spread of viral diseases or epidemics and consequently to deaths. A typical example is that of hospital acquired infections (HAI). According to The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in the EU, about 3,000,000 are infected annually with HAI and about 25,000 patients die from this. Such infections also bring extra healthcare costs and annual productivity losses of at least €1.5 billion. It is estimated that 15% of these infections is due to transmission through inanimate objects. Although sanitization and disinfection of surfaces using chemical liquids as chlorine or alcohol is a common practice to prevent transmission of diseases, many times such procedures are skipped, skimped or in the case of public transportation not practically feasible. There exists a great need for anti-bacterial/viral surfaces to reduce the spread of diseases. The SMEs of the consortium having identified this need propose the solution of self-cleaning, antibacterial electrolytic coatings of high aesthetics and durability. These composite coatings will consist of Sn-Ni matrix with doped TiO2 nanoparticles as a reinforcing mean. Doped-TiO2 nanoparticles having the ability to absorb visible light can be activated indoors and thus present enhanced photocatalytic activity. The incorporation of these doped-TiO2 nanoparticles in the Sn-Ni matrix will have as a result the self-cleaning and antibacterial properties. Of crucial importance is the percentage of the incorporated nanoparticles. In order to increase the co-deposition rate and consequently the photocatalytic activity, pulse current plating will be utilized. With this method higher co-deposition rate of nanoparticles can be achieved compared to the conventional direct current plating. These kind of coating will be able to operate under indoor light irradiation and can be applied to common touched objects (knobs, taps, handles) reducing the risk of infection’s transmission by 50-100%.

Keywords: doped-tio2 nanoparticles,electrodeposition process,pulse plating,composite coatings,photocatalytic properties,indoor lighting,materials characterization
Super-Stabilised Opaque Foam Coatings for Architectural Applications (DRYFOAM)

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,Sweden,United Kingdom,Portugal,Denmark,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483792.0
EU funding (EUR): 1107000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

A white coating’s opacity derives from some light absorption but predominantly light scattering, which is a function of differences in refractive index between paint components. In conventional white decorative coatings, for example, the main contribution to scattering is the difference in refractive index between titanium dioxide pigment (n=2.7) and the continuous medium, the resin system (n≈1.5). Titanium dioxide has one of the highest refractive indices known, and is certainly the most widely used white pigment, but in recent years the price of titanium dioxide has increased rapidly and there will be serious supply shortages in the foreseeable future. At the same time, there is a growing awareness of sustainability and environmental issues in the chemical industry and particularly the coatings industry, and methodologies, such as life cycle analysis and carbon footprints, are being developed to quantify the ‘environmental friendliness’ of coatings’ materials and products. Titanium dioxide pigment is one of the major contributors to a coating’s carbon footprint and the manufacturing process for titanium dioxide produces unwanted waste products. Another way of enhancing opacity in a white coating is the inclusion of air (n=1), which can improve the efficiency of titanium dioxide as an opacifier, air has environmental and cost benefits. The DRYFOAM project will develop novel opaque architectural coatings, based on a foam structure. It aims to develop stable and tough foam scaffolds within coatings, particularly for ceilings and interior walls, capable of withstanding normal wear and tear conditions. The European interior wall coatings market (including ceilings) was estimated in 2008 as 2.79 million tonnes (valued at €4.65 BN), more or less equally split between the professional decorating and the home (DIY) decorating market.

Keywords: architectural paint,decorative,titanium dioxide,foam