Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Photocatalytic and membrane technology process for olive oil mill waste water treatment (PHOTOMEM)

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,France,Italy,Greece,France
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1215075.0
EU funding (EUR): 909935.75
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Presently available methods for the treatment of olive mill waste water are not acceptable from the environmental point of view (evaporation, discharge) or not suitable from the economic aspect (membrane treatments) costing 10-20% of revenues from oil selling. PHOTOMEM proposes a reliable and affordable technology solution to treat the waste water, applying a novel technical solution based on degradation of organic pollutants through photocatalysis. Dispersed ferromagnetic titania nanoparticles with a magnetic core will be used in a photocatalytic reactor and recovered through a magnetic filter. A subsequent membrane filtration step will be used to achieve the COD limit for reuse of the recycled 85% of wastewater as purified water to a grade compatible with irrigation use and/or dischargeable at low cost in the civil municipal sewer system. The combination of the 2 processes will grant strongly improved performances: double membrane lifetime, 50% cost saving for the operation, 3 times more compact plant, much faster operation. The recovery of polyphenols, a family of added value compounds (hydroxytyrosol) present in the wastewater will be performed to make the process more profitable. The tangible outcomes of the PHOTOMEM project will be: 1. Production process for ferromagnetic photocatalytic titania nanoparticles, 2. Economical wastewater treatment for OMWW, 3. PHOTOMEM pilot plant of 1 m3/day capacity to validate the treatment and evaluate scale-up. The 2 SMEs (ECS, BIOAZUL) specialised in waste water treatment plants design and construction will sell the PHOTOMEM plant in 2 different countries (Italy, Spain). The producer of custom-made ceramic powders and nanostructured materials for industrial use (MT) will produce the ferromagnetic photocatalytic titania nanoparticles. The end-user (FRA) will apply the technology in its production site. The market potential for such a solution would be of the order of several tens of millions of Euro.

Keywords: photocatalysis,membranes,polyphenols,ferromagnetic titania
InnovativE anti-graFFiti product for Application in the Cultural Heritage of EURope (EFFACEUR)

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,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1502045.58
EU funding (EUR): 1151469.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Graffiti attacks and associated cleaning procedures cost Europe ca. 90 million € / year. Cultural Heritage (CH) is a typical market for SMEs because they provide specific case-by-case solutions; however at present these SMEs cannot offer suitable protection measures against graffiti on CH buildings and monuments, as anti-graffiti coatings are hard to find on the market for the type of materials found in CH. Furthermore the products used in CH must follow the strict guidelines of conservation practice. The development of specific CH anti-graffiti products has been delayed due to the conflicting requirements, high financial risk and lack of R&D infrastructures of the SMEs. Therefore, EFFACEUR is a clear opportunity for them to increase their competitiveness and economic benefit. Previously, the GRAFFITAGE project attracted much attention worldwide because of the innovative approach proposed to solve this problem, which consisted in the development of a polymeric charge complex with proven anti-graffiti behaviour suitable CH materials. The SME partners of EFFACEUR propose to use this novel formulation as the basis for a new anti-graffiti product that will satisfy this market. Thus, EFFACEUR aims at further developing, uspcaling and transferring into the market this novel protective anti-graffiti formulation. More specifically, EFFACEUR will develop a new route for upscaling the anti-graffiti marketable prototype product and will optimize it so that it is industrially viable. Initially, new routes for the upscaling of the 2 main components of the anti-graffiti formulation will be developed. Based on these 2 components, the final anti-graffiti upscaled formulation will be produced. In the laboratory, the most adequate application and cleaning method for the product will be defined, and its properties will be studied (durability, reversibility, compatibility). Finally, the anti-graffiti product will be validated in real case studies.

Keywords: anti-graffiti coatings,new family of product,polymeric components,new synthesis routes,novel formulation,application,specific cleaning method,real case studies
Supporting SMEs innovation processes through advanced IT search systems (INSEARCH)

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,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493380.0
EU funding (EUR): 1129227.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The INSEARCH project aims to develop an information system, based on advanced knowledge search, retrieval and analysis techniques, able to support European SMEs in their technological innovation process in particular in facing one of their main challenges: how to find and use available knowledge present in the form of structured and unstructured data in the World Wide Web. Such an information system will support human decision and action, it is neither pure information brokering, nor automatic execution. INSEARCH will use advanced filtering, recommendation, and monitoring techniques to search and retrieve relevant knowledge, as well as Natural language Processing and text mining techniques to analyse the retrieved knowledge thus providing useful information for the innovation process. The INSEARCH expected final result will be a fully operational information retrieval (IR) and analysis system, eventually integrated within SMEs internal existing knowledge management systems. The IR and Analysis system will consist on: 1) A data modelling toolbox able to support users in providing coherent and structured queries, in line with the organisational databases used for data storage and analysis; 2) An advanced search and retrieve system for relevant knolwdge present in the Web, based on content filtering, reccomendation, monitoring, and ranking of achieved results; 3) An analysis module of retrieved knolwdge through Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, to provide users with already analysed information useful for product/proces innovation; 4) An overall Data Management platform based on Semantic Technologies and innovation-targeted ontologies to store and manage the innovation-related knolwdge.

Keywords: innovation methodology,search engine,concept,information retrieval,product,text mining,semantic web,natural language processing,ontologies,software,triz
European Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure (ECCSEL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Norway,Poland,France,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Greece,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2580497.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499960.57
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The ECCSEL consortium teams up selected Centres of Excellence on CCS across Europe (Norway, Poland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, UK, Netherlands and Switzerland). The mission is to develop (i.e. build and operate) a European distributed, goal-oriented, integrated Research Infrastructure, to: • Provide a dynamic scientific foundation to respond systematically to the urgent R&D needs in CCS at a pan-European level in a short and long term perspective; • Maintain Europe at the forefront of the international CCS scientific community; • Increase the attractiveness of the European Research Area, reinforcing the research-based clusters and improving their socio-economic impacts; • Optimise the value of the Community financial support The existing and new ECCSEL laboratories will be owned by the involved partner institutions. They will, however, be developed and made available for the ECCSEL program, governed by an overall agreement. It is foreseen that ECCSEL will gradually become ready and accessible starting from 2015. The main objective of the ECCSEL Preparatory Phase project (PP) is to address the primary tasks necessary to establish a new distributed, goal-oriented, integrated pan-European infrastructure for state-of-the-art research on technologies enabling CO2 capture, transport and storage (CCS). The PP Consortium has 15 participants from 8 member states and 2 associated countries. The PP will be split into two phases, phase I and II, that will build on each other. The first phase will last for two years and focus on legal, financial and strategic work. It will be structured in six Work Packages; WP1 Legal and governance structure, WP2 Financial strategy, WP3 Infrastructure development plan, WP4 Dissemination and outreach measures, WP5 Implementation strategy, and WP6 Project management and coordination. The most important outcomes of the first phase include: • Identification of suitable legal and governance structure, including rules for IPR, access to and use of the facilities, and HSE standards. • Development of a financial strategy • Review of priority research needs, mapping and subsequent gap analysis to create the Infrastructure development plan. The formal output of phase I will be the Implementation strategy report, which will be developed in WP5.

Keywords: carbon dioxide,capture,transport,storage
Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures 2 (RAMIRI 2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Poland,United Kingdom,Czechia,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 561460.6
EU funding (EUR): 510000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This project builds on the work previously done for the first RAMIRI project. It responds to a number of developments in European research infrastructure (RI) management, including the ESFRI Roadmap, the ESFRI regional issues working group, the ECRI conferences and the European Research Area (ERA) Board. The principal aims of this proposal are to train a group of new RI-managers (with a particular emphasis on managers from the new member states) in a number of key practical areas relevant to establishing and managing RIs of pan-European and international importance, including both single-sited and distributed infrastructures in both the physical/natural and social sciences. Topics covered will include: determining socio-economic impact, site-selection, legal and governance issues, financing, project planning and construction, recruiting specialised staff, and strategic planning (upgrades, partnerships, technology transfer). These learning areas will be delivered by expert speakers coordinated by a programme committee across 2 learning programmes over 24 months. Each programme will consist of two workshops held in a different location: Amsterdam, Prague and twice in Trieste. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste will coordinate the overall project and work closely with its partners: Adam Mickiewicz University, Imperial College London, Institute of Physics and University of Amsterdam. The workshops will also include a site visit or more detailed case study relevant to each location. Participants will be selected on the basis of suitability through an application process. A mid-term review meeting will be held in Poznan to coincide with the Polish Presidency of the EU in late 2011. Following the end of the programmes, the learning materials and case presentations will be incorporated into a revised ‘RAMIRI’ handbook which thematises and summarises key issues in RI-management.

Keywords: realising managing international research infrastructures regional legal governance finance funding planning
Welding process planning and parametric pricing software solution for SMEs (WELD-IT)

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,Slovakia,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1369602.2
EU funding (EUR): 1034895.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Welding is a major route of fabricating steel and thermoplastic structures and therefore approaches a reasonable portion of industrial and other sectors. When designing a joint, from an engineering point of view, many aspects have to be taken into account such as amount of load, nature of load, sheet thickness, material, welding technology, etc. But on the other hand, as an industrial process, the cost of welding plays a more crucial role in manufacturing decisions. Many different variables affect the total cost, including equipment cost, labour cost, material cost, and energy cost. Despite high level automation and developed information technologies applied in engineering, cost/price calculation of welding projects are still performed manually by welding experts with a basic software support. Companies commonly employ or hire welding engineers exclusively for performing this task. Depending on the volume and complexity of the project, pricing process can last from hours to weeks, costing from few hundreds to tens of thousands Euros. Due to its inflexibility, it is clear that this method will become inappropriate in a short time and a highly computed method will be required in order to catch up with the even shorter product development cycles, the increasing demands and the tough competition. Weld-IT will be a tool that enables welding companies to price, plan and manage welding projects in a fast, cost-effective, flexible and sophisticated way by providing them with hardly accessible expertise regarding welding. Being a knowledge-based, “assistive” tool, it supports welding engineers and technicians in pricing and defining the optimal welding processes for a fabrication by taking into account the most relevant parameters/information: project requirements and specifications, customer preferences, manufacturing capabilities, resource allocation, standards and best practices.

Keywords: software development,process planning software development,on-line industrial application,full package product development
Intelligent combustion management of flue gases for solid fuel domestic heating systems (INTELLI-FLUE)

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,Germany,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Spain,Poland,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499192.0
EU funding (EUR): 1067381.48
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Processed and poor quality solid fuels produce highly corrosive flue gases that significantly reduce the lifetime of flue liners. Coupled with increased flue gas temperatures from high efficient solid fuel stoves, flue liners are failing to reduce serious chimney fires. The Intelli-Flue solution will address the issue of highly corrosive flue gases and elevated flue gas temperatures by developing a flexible ceramic liner and an energy recovery system. The combination will enable homeowners to continue to use solid safely without risking the building and its occupants. Intelli-Flue promotes solid fuels as alternatives to oil and gas domestic heating. With concerns over energy supply set to continue Intelli-Flue will help Europe to better utilise solid fuel resources and diversify our energy mix to meet EU energy targets.

Keywords: combustion,technical textiles,solid fuel,stoves
Novel method for assisting and accelerating the aging process of wine (ULTRAFINEWINE)

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,France,Switzerland,Ireland,Ireland,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1516559.6
EU funding (EUR): 1151339.2
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Wine producers are constantly striving to achieve a stable product with an extended period of peak taste and bouquet. Naturally aged wine tends to be milder tasting, smoother to drink and have a higher metabolism than non-aged wine. Research has shown this to be due to the dynamic structures of the ethanol-water clusters being changed to a smaller, more uniform state as the wine ages. Prior to the ageing process, many wines are treated with certain additives, such as potassium bisulphate, sodium bisulphate, and other conditioners and ingredients. However it is left to the traditional ageing process to disperse these ingredients throughout the liquid, as well as to the judgement of expert winemakers to periodically taste the wine to determine whether more additives are required. The various modules in wine will then blend with or attach to each other imperfectly over time. When attachment is complete a degree of stability sets in for a period of time. At this point the wine is at its optimal state for consumption. Following this period the process of detachment begins, resulting in a loss of wine quality. Research to date has revealed that the aging process can be enhanced with by the application of high pressures and temperatures over time, however extremes in either can be detrimental to the quality of the wine and controlled delivery is of utmost importance. This project will build on past research that has demonstrated promising results for the application of temperature and pressure by ultrasonic radiation which can alter the interaction of wine ingredients to obtain chemical changes in the wine resembling many years of natural ageing. A prototype ultrasound device will be designed, built and integrated into existing wine fermentation vats in order to validate its usefulness at industrial scale for the production of homogenous wines with an extended shelf-life in very short periods of time compared to natural ageing.

Keywords: ultrasound
A novel NIR-based instrument for in-line monitoring during injection moulding (OPTIJECT)

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,Germany,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1520656.4
EU funding (EUR): 1165050.7
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Injection moulding is a complex process and is dependent on the relationship between the supplied material and the processing conditions. The properties of the plastic materials are directly dependent on the temperature, time and environment. Any change in the injection moulding variables, such as temperature, pressure and speed, the mould temperature, the mould cooling temperature, the backpressure and the cycle time, to mention but a few, can change the process stability, affecting the subsequent consistency and quality of the manufactured parts. The simultaneous control and adjustment of the injection moulding parameters and properties of the material poses a major challenge for plastics manufacturers and the subsequent manufacture of quality parts that are of a consistent high quality and free from defects proves difficult. Defect detection and quality improvements are mostly carried out on the basis of quality control of finished parts, using visual inspection, weighing the moulded parts or using off-line analytical and mechanical measurements. To date, the optimisation of certain parameters of the injection moulding has been carried out using off-line analysis of the finished products. This project will build on the results of past research that has demonstrated the feasibility of using near infrared spectroscopy as a quality control tool in an injection-moulding machine. The optical fibre probes allowed in-line process monitoring of the material passing through the injection moulder. Preliminary results showed that the near infrared system can detect several types of materials, can identify colour changes and moisture in materials. Access to a technology that would enable injection moulders to monitor and control their injection moulding processes in real time, would hold significant benefits for higher throughput and increased productivity, cost reductions, improved quality control, health and safety.

Keywords: nir/uv-vis spectroscopy