Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EPC-EqTech – an innovative turnkey solution to process spent caustic created in the Oil&Gas industry at low-cost and that meets wastewater regulations (EPC-EqTech)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Türkiye,France,Netherlands
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3296650.0
EU funding (EUR): 2604317.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Spent caustic is a highly toxic by-product created in the oil and petrochemical refining industries that is highly challenging to process. Modern solutions are either unable to meet wastewater treatment regulations or are cost prohibitive. This has resulted in large stockpiles of this hazardous waste now building at refineries with no accessible way to dispose of it. Since 2016 Cetaqua and Suez have been collaborating in development of an innovative solution: “EPC-EqTech” – a plant that combines three core technologies: Electro Coagulation (EC), Electro Oxidation (EO) and Electroperoxi-coagulation (EPC) to create a novel solution capable of processing spent caustic at low-cost and within regulatory parameters. Joining Cetaqua and Suez, the FTI project consortium includes Tüpraş as pilot trial lead end-user and DEKRA as materials development and safety regulations partner. EPC-EqTech is poised to solve this industry-wide challenge and save our target market an estimated 2,4 bnEUR compared to modern alternatives by processing spent caustic on-site with a highly cost-effective and efficient technology. Among others, EPC-EqTech provides its users the following benefits: - Environmentally compatible application; - Hard COD removal; - Highly-effective; - Very low CAPEX and OPEX compared to competitors with better process control; - Meets all known regulatory standards; - In-situ processing that is simple to operate; - Scalable to meet refinery demands; - High pollutant removal efficiencies at acidic medium (optimal pH range) with no H2O2 accumulation. To bring EPC-EqTech to market, our European consortium provides the required technical expertise and commercial position to: 1) Finalise development of our complete solution; 2) Complete TRL7 trials with spent caustic streams; 3) Prepare for commercial integration with all of the tools required for success.

Keywords: spent caustic,effluent,wastewater,electro peroxicoagulation,electrochemistry,electrochemical
Smart integRation Of local energy sources and innovative storage for flexiBle, secure and cost-efficIent eNergy Supply ON industrialized islands (ROBINSON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Norway,Greece,Switzerland,Norway,Finland,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Decarbonising energy systems of geographical Islands (H2020-LC-SC3-2020-EC-ES-SCC, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8369532.5
EU funding (EUR): 6994901.01
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

ROBINSON will optimise the utilisation of local renewable resources by deploying an integrated, smart and cost-efficient energy system coupling thermal and electrical networks, demonstrated in industrial environment on the Eigerøy island, Norway. It will integrate i) commercially available technologies and storage, ii) novel technologies adapted and developed in ROBINSON, such as a micro gas turbine based Combined Heat and Power unit running on a mixture of local renewable fuels, an Anaerobic Digestion system assisted by a biolectrochemical process producing bio-methane from wastewater, and an innovative wind turbine, as well as iii) industrial symbiosis concepts, such as waste, heat and oxygen valorization. An optimized intelligent Energy Management System (EMS) with advanced control system considering weather forecast, market fluctuations and demand response, will ensure the grid stability, power balance and security of supply. The ambition of ROBINSON is to decrease the energy production costs, reduce dependence on mainland power and phase out fossil fuels currently used by the demo island’s industries in a relatively short term, thus significantly contribute to island’s decarbonization. The user-friendliness and high modularity of the developed EMS then ensures a great potential for replication on the Follower islands (Western Isle of Scotland and Crete), but also in other remote areas in Europe and beyond. The project will encourage business opportunities for local communities and, by creating new value chains, open up markets for the developed technologies having a positive impact on EU’s competitiveness in low carbon economy. The Consortium gathers local stakeholders from three islands, technology providers incl. SMEs, Universities and RTOs as well as experts on business, islands ecosystems, cybersecurity and social matters. ROBINSON will actively engage with relevant existing initiatives and networks to prevent or overcome any potential arising obstacles.

Keywords: islands,energy systems,integration of res,energy storage,industrial symbiosis
Core noIse Reduction foR Uhbr engineS (CIRRUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Advanced solutions for 2030+ UHBR Core Noise reduction (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3627325.0
EU funding (EUR): 2731877.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The propulsion of the majority of commercial aircraft relies on turbofan engines. The current trend for future turbofan engines is towards even higher bypass ratios. These Ultra-High Bypass Ratio (UHBR) engines have large fans rotating at relatively low speeds. As a consequence of the lower speed, the fuel consumption can be reduced. Another consequence is that the engine noise signature is modified. While jet noise and fan noise will be reduced, core noise will be become more significant. In this context, the CIRRUS project aims to validate advanced low noise concepts, by developing both advanced numerical and experimental tools, to reduce the core noise of future UHBR 2030+ turbofan engines. The overall goals of CIRRUS are to: • Improve numerical methods to predict the noise source mechanisms and the acoustic core noise radiation, • Improve experimental methods to measure the contribution of core noise on real engines, • Develop, test and integration of new generations of noise reduction acoustic liners made of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC), • Investigate on future UHBR 2030+ architectures the influence on the core noise sources by comparing various configurations of turbines by reducing the number of stages. The first stream of the project is dedicated to the improvement of the core noise prediction tools with the implementation of an industrial LES/CAA workflow. A second stream is focused on experimental activities with the development of post-processing methodologies to identify the core noise contribution. The third stream of the project is focused on low noise concepts. CMC liner concepts will be investigated and tested. Finally, the relevant low noise concepts will be evaluated on a full scale UHBR and a core noise experimental data base will be created by conducting acoustic test campaigns on realistic engines. A comparison between measurements and simulation results will be performed to qualify the numerical means up to TRL6.

Keywords: core noise,turbine noise,environmental performance,aircraft,uhbr engine,numerical,experimental methods,engine acoustic test,acoustic liner,low noise solutions,cmc manufacturing
Power Conversion Units for LifeRCraft demonstrator (POCOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call: Power Conversion (H2020-CS2-CFP01-2014-01, 2014)
Start date: 2015-12-14
End date: 2019-06-13
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1229831.25
EU funding (EUR): 499000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The growth of Power Electronics has been driven by the demand for more electrical solutions in a very diverse range of application sectors, including transport electrification, energy generation, transmission and distribution, consumer electronics and lighting, industrial motor drives. This range of applications has brought increasing demands on the performance, reliability and cost of power electronics and the associated power conversion techniques, leading to a rapid and dynamic improvement in a range of essential technologies. In this context, two leading institutions in the field of power electronics, Techniques et Fabrications Electroniques (TFE) and the University of Nottingham (UNOTT) are combining their forces in order to propose a project (POCOL) that will enable a step change in the development of high specification power converters for modern aircraft application such as for the lifeRcraft helicopter. The two partners of the project will be organized as to get the best of their specificity. Being a University well known for its strong research activity allows UNOTT to lead the project at the beginning for the three first work packages, setting up the bases of the design. As an equipment designer and manufacturer working in the aeronautic area, TFE will be the leader of the rest of the project and will be able to propose an industrialization of the product made under the POCOL project. TFE and UNOTT will work together to: • Develop models and design the required power converter and inverter to meet the functional and operational performance and reliability requirements set out in the CfP. • Manufacture B1 prototypes that meet the design criteria up to TRL5 • Test the B1 demonstrators under relevant environmental and operational conditions • Re-iterate knowledge gained from B1 models into updated B2 models • Build B2 demonstrators and test and validate up to TRL6 • Provide relevant documentation to prove required certification

Keywords: high performance airborne power converter,hvdc to lvdc bidirectional,insulated dc,dc and dc,hvdc to three phase four wire ac,high power density,wide band gap semiconductor
BigDataOcean - Exploiting Ocean's of Data for Maritime Applications (BigDataOcean)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Big Data PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Greece,Greece,Greece,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3566172.5
EU funding (EUR): 2998569.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of BigDataOcean is to enable maritime big data scenarios for EU-based companies, organisations and scientists, through a multi-segment platform that will combine data of different velocity, variety and volume under an inter-linked, trusted, multilingual engine to produce a big-data repository of value and veracity back to the participants and local communities. BigDataOcean aims to capitalise on existing modern technological breakthroughs in the areas of the big data driven economy, and roll out a completely new value chain of interrelated data streams coming from diverse sectors and languages and residing on cross technology innovations being delivered in different formats (as well in different states, e.g. structured/unstructured, real-time/batches) in order to revolutionise the way maritime-related industries work, showcasing a huge and realistic economic, societal and environmental impact that is being achieved by introducing an economy of knowledge into a traditional sector which does not operate in an orchestrated manner and is rather fragmented. This infrastructure will be combined with four strong pilots that will bring into BigDataOcean a huge amount of data (in TBs) in order to develop the largest maritime database as a resource of collaborative, data-driven intelligence. BigDataOcean will give participants the capability to upload both private and public resources of data, and interrelate them over public and private queries and diagrams. The BigDataOcean system backbone will be domain-agnostic and interoperable with the most popular and established data processing technologies and sensor types, and will be capable of conforming to various different operation systems that one can nowadays meet. Based on the consortium’s early market analysis, the project will break even and will be viable from its start (2020) and will return the initial investment of EU-commission by 2025 (ROI).

Keywords: big data,maritime,analytics,multi sector,multilingual
Liquid-Assisted Grinding - from Fundaments to Applications (GrindCore)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Croatia,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2024-04-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243763.2
EU funding (EUR): 243763.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Liquid-assisted grinding (LAG) is a mechanochemical process in which a catalytic amount of added liquid tremendously accelerate the reaction kinetics, and often significantly alter reaction outcome. Due to high applicability potential of LAG and still a huge amount of ambiguities, it has become essential to improve understanding of reaction mechanisms at molecular level. Establishing a correspondence between solution and solid-state reaction mechanisms would enable utilisation of huge body of knowledge in the currently barely grazed mechanistic framework of solid-state milling reactions, which is a prerequisite for their systematic use and utilisation in Green Chemistry synthetic alternatives, which would be a critical requirement for any industrial application of LAG. This project should contribute implementation of MCh for a cleaner chemical laboratory and a sustainable, low-waste and low-emissions chemical and pharmaceutical industry. It is unacceptable that further development of such an important methodology depends on a mere trial and error or, at best, on the experimenter's experience and instincts. Here, recently developed techniques for in situ real-time monitoring of MCh reactions by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy will be employed to enable insight into uninterrupted reactions and thus resolution of mechanistic pathways and kinetics of the selected representative simple reactions. The obtained data will be interpreted with respect of properties of liquids added to LAG systems. It is expected that in this way the catalytic action of liquids in LAG reactions will be put to a firmer ground. The accumulated fundamental understanding of LAG reactions will be then applied to develop or improve Green Chemistry procedures for selected environmentally relevant processes and materials. This should consequently lead to optimisation of these processes, setting them ready for scale-up to ecologically friendlier, sustainable industrial processes.

Keywords: mechanochemistry,solid state reactions,ball milling,liquid assisted grinding,green chemistry
Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage (ICEDIG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Belgium,Belgium,Switzerland,Finland,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Design Studies (H2020-INFRADEV-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999755.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999755.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Modern science requires digital access to data. European collections account for 55% of the natural sciences collections globally, holding more than 1 billion objects, which represent 80% of the world’s bio- and geo-diversity. Only around 10% of these have been digitally catalogued and 1-2% imaged, rendering their information underused. The sheer scale and complexity of digitising and providing access to this information requires technological, socio-cultural, and organisational capacity enhancements across the continent. This challenge is being tackled by the new ESFRI initiative Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo). DiSSCo will unify access to collection data in a harmonised and integrated manner across Europe. It will enable critical new insights from integrated digital data to address some of the world's greatest challenges, such as biodiversity loss and impacts of climate change. However, new research and technological innovation will be required to solve the challenges of efficiently digitising and seamlessly accessing the collections. Building on previous project outputs, community and industrial expertise, the ICEDIG project will design all the technical, financial, policy and governance aspects for developing and operating DiSSCo. A consolidation stream will develop a shared governance model to support all aspects of service unification such as implementation of the open access principles, incentive schemes, planning and prioritisation, capacity development, etc. A technology stream will focus on the innovations that will be required to digitise a significant part of major collections in a foreseeable time, at acceptable cost, and to manage petabyte-size data. The work will be carried out in wide consultation with the larger community. The outputs will be prototypes, blueprints, novel workflows, new industry partnerships, and citizen involvement models, paving the way for the successful construction of the DiSSCo research infrastructure.

Keywords: biodiversity,scientific collections,esfri,open science,open access,fair
Mechanisms and Ecological Relevance of Direct Plant Responses to the Third Trophic Level (PRENEMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499671.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499671.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Interactions between plants, herbivores and herbivore natural enemies, so-called tritrophic interactions, are important determinants of ecological processes and crop yields. Plants play an important role in tritrophic interactions through their capacity to recognize and respond to herbivores by activating defences. Interestingly, recent work shows that plants also respond directly to natural enemies of herbivores. However, the mechanisms and specificity of these responses are not well understood, and how they influence tritrophic interactions is unknown. PRENEMA aims at characterizing plant responses to the third trophic level as an hitherto overlooked mechanism governing tritrophic interactions. To this end, PRENEMA combines an interdisciplinary approach with a new phenotyping method and a tractable, ecologically and agriculturally relevant, tritrophic model system consisting of maize and its wild ancestor teosinte, the root herbivore Diabrotica balteata and the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. In a first step, PRENEMA will develop a novel root exometabolome sampling system to simultaneously extract and profile root water-soluble and volatile exudate metabolites. Second, PRENEMA will use this system to characterize changes in maize primary and secondary metabolites upon exposure to entomopathogenic nematodes, and assess the specificity of the responses across different maize and teosinte genotypes and nematode species. Third, a subset of the identified response markers will be used to uncover nematode-associated molecular patterns that are responsible for triggering plant responses. Fourth, the ecological consequences of the plant responses for plants, herbivores and entomopathogenic nematodes will be measured in the greenhouse and the field. The knowledge and technology generated by PRENEMA will help to integrate a new infochemical pathway into tritrophic interactions and will advance the state of the art in belowground chemical ecology.

Keywords: chemical ecology,tritrophic interactions,belowground interactions