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EU Title of project: Solutions for the mushroom industry to emerging disease threats from Trichoderma and Virus (MUSHTV)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,United Kingdom,Ireland,Belgium,Poland,Netherlands,Ireland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3424926.24
EU funding (EUR): 2588700.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The mushroom industry SME AGs across Europe have come together to request the main research providers of applied mushroom research in Europe to conduct research on Trichoderma and Virus, two major problems for the industry. Disease control has been compromised by the withdrawal of key pesticides and disinfectants by the EU in recent years, such as the withdrawal of approval for formaldehyde as a disinfectant and carbendazim fungicide for Trichoderma control. The Mushroom SME AGs want to know what their members must do to prevent and / or control outbreaks of Trichoderma and Virus. Disease control must now be based on a sustainable integrated pest management system (IPM). IPM focuses on combining (i) improved hygiene procedures (ii) knowledge of how individual diseases and pests spread within and between crops (epidemiology), (iii) improved diagnostics and (iv) optimum use of available products to control and reduce the incidence of disease. This project aims to provide research-based solutions for the mushroom industry to deal with these two relatively new major diseases affecting production. Application of the solutions developed by this project to the European mushroom industry will reduce crop losses and increase efficiency and competitiveness. During the project we will (1) generate technical research-based information on how Trichoderma and MVX grow, survive and spread in mushroom compost in order to identify the weak links in the chain and the steps needed to strengthen them; (2) screen and evaluate alternative disinfectant and biocontrol products for use in disease prevention and control programmes; (3) identify, characterise and quantify the presence of pathogens on mushroom farms and compost facilities across Europe over a period of up to 12 months, using the most up to date technologies; (4) work towards identifying diagnostics service provider(s) who will offer new diagnostic tests, developed during the project, to SME AG members; (5) compile key results into Technical Factsheets for SME AGs to distribute to their members and (6) hold seminars, workshops and conferences organised by SME AGs for their members. In the region of 300+ SME mushroom growers and composters will benefit from the results and this will lead to reduced disease incidence and associated costs savings among a large group of SMEs.

Keywords: mushrooms,compost,disease control,epidemiology,diagnostics,ipm,pesticide replacement,molecular
Sustainable surfactant production from renewable resources through natural fermentation for applications in natural, organically-certified products (O4S)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Portugal,Belgium,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2640172.6
EU funding (EUR): 1927900.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

O4S (=Organic for Surfactants) has been primarily designed to address a critical necessity of the European Natural Cosmetic Sector which is lacking a sustainable source of surfactants (Surface Active Agents) that can be considered natural and are of certified organic origin to meet the growing market demands. This development will provide the natural cosmetic sector with an alternative to replace the current use of chemically-derived surfactants from oleo-chemical feedstocks. One of their main applications is in personal hygiene products representing 40% in volume of the cosmetic ingredients used in the EU. This work will optimize the production of natural bio-surfactants by fermentation to achieve industrial efficiency and economic yields by using organically certified sources (e.g. post harvest loses by-products from primary process). The proposed work offers an opportunity to achieve the full utilization of organically certified raw materials increasing the efficiency of the European Organic Farming Systems. Scientific objectives are: 1) To investigate supply of raw materials from waste streams or by-products to lowers the initial costs; 2) To develop scientific knowledge on the interdependencies of the various process parameters and substrate properties ; 3.)To establish of a database of compound characteristics, stability and performance for suitable applications. Further, the overall technical objectives are to define the characteristics of the product to meet the organic certification standards and the performance requirements for their application in the natural cosmetic industry. This will be followed by the specification, optimization and scale-up of an appropriate industrial bio-process for bio-surfactant production (up to 1 m3 to 10 m3) by developing an integrated fermenting and in-situ removal system. Further, a technology platform for product information, formulation and applications will be created for the benefit of the SME-AG members.

Keywords: biosurfactants,organic farming,natural cosmetics,process optimization,technology platform
Clean Air Technology for Biomass Combustion Systems (BioCAT) (BIOCAT)

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: Austria,Germany,Austria,Germany,Austria,Switzerland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1410933.88
EU funding (EUR): 1004500.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The BioCAT proposal aims at the development of new generation of biomass based room heating appliances. The EU climate and energy strategy for 2020 obviously relies on a significant increase of biomass share in household energy production. In addition new building standards lead to a decrease in heat consumption of households and consequently to a decrease of the nominal power of heating appliances. Therefore small-scale wood fired room heating appliances are a perfectly suited, absolutely climate friendly and cost effective solution. However it is also known that small-scale wood combustion appliances, in particular logwood fired systems – contribute significant shares of gaseous and particulate emissions all over Europe. The only way to solve this resulting conflict of aims is to reduce emissions from logwood fired small-scale combustion systems significantly and this is exactly the mission of the BioCAT – project. The integration of a new oxidation catalyst system in existing or newly developed biomass combustion appliances will make the developed products defining a new standard in their class concerning gaseous and particulate emissions. The emission targets for the developed manually stoked appliances are in the same range or even better than today’s state-of-the-art automatically fired room heating appliances (pellet stoves). Therefore the expected impacts of the BioCAT project are self-evident: SME partners in the consortium, catalyst system- as well as biomass combustion system manufacturers, will benefit from the technologically outstanding position of their developed products. Positive “side effect” of the expected economic impact is the environmental impact. By reaching a strong market penetration of catalyst equipped combustion systems in the upcoming decade a huge step towards the solution of the air pollution issue of small-scale biomass can be done.

Keywords: integrated catalyst,biomass combustion,clean air technology,logwood,low emission
Demonstration of a Condition Monitoring System for Tidal Stream Generators. (TIDALSENSE DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Greece,Lithuania,Spain,Germany,Norway,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2949380.2
EU funding (EUR): 1621900.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The TidalSense Demo project has been conceived by the SMEs intending to exploit a new market with huge potential growth, in Condition Monitoring of subsea energy device elements using the TidalSense System. The TidalSense condition monitoring system has been developed to detect, locate and classify defects in tidal generator structures. The Demo project will allow the SMEs to demonstrate and validate their system so that they can gain a lead in this emerging market, providing condition monitoring services and components to tidal energy operators. The SMEs will draw on their in-house research capabilities and those of participating research organisations, who will supply support to the SMEs. The TidalSense Demo project is aiming to: • Apply novel LRU (Long Range Ultrasonic) and AE (Acoustic Emission) sensors to inspect tidal stream generators, allowing 100% volume coverage. • Apply novel and flexible piezocomposite transducers to LRU/AE allowing perfect adaptation of shape to structures of complex contour, and thus perfect acoustic coupling into such structures. • Use guided wave in new applications. • Develop instrumentation and software for LRUT and AE monitoring of tidal generators. • Develop signal processing techniques for signal enhancement including novel time reversal focussing. • Develop an automated defect detection and classification system (ADDS) including trend analysis which combines AE and LRU in an integrated way. • Implement general wireless communication methods so that the data can be collected and transmitted both from generators directly to the office, without human intervention.

Keywords: condition monitoring,structural health monitoring,tidal energy,renewable energy sources,electricity,industrial demonstration,lrut,ultrasonic transducers,ndt,non destructive testing
Multianalyte automatic system for the detection of drug resistant bacteria. (OPTOBACTERIA)

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,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1626952.0
EU funding (EUR): 1250700.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Infectious disease are responsible of high human health burden and cost. Time to diagnosis release and quality of the microrganism detection represent an area of interest for optical fiber based device application. OPTObacteria propose an highly expert consortium in which 4 SME and 4 research peformers from 3 European countries would synergize their efforts to provide a unique Automatic Laboratory Detector (ALD) to deliver a drug resistance report in a 4 or 4-8 hours timeframe. The time is depending on the experiment required, it avoid bacterial grwoth time, typical of the antibiogram typical report and provide an detection up to low ng concentration or even low. With respect to other optical-based device (like SPR, surface plamon resosnance) many limitations are overcome.

Keywords: automatic laboratory detector,optical fiber,drug resistance,biomarker for drug resistance,bacterial infections,health care
Development of a practical and reliable ash melting test for biomass fuels, in particular for wood pellets (ASHMELT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,Spain,Sweden,Austria,Austria,Austria,Germany,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2021975.4
EU funding (EUR): 1455400.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The utilisation of renewable energy sources is a considerable contribution to the EU 2020 targets, and the utilisation of solid biomass for heat production is of great relevance in this regard. The market for solid biofuels is growing rapidly, and the demand for raw materials is increasing. Consequently it is aimed at extending the raw material basis for biofuel production covering also wooden materials of lower quality as well as agricultural raw materials and residues, which often show unfavourable ash melting properties. The ash fusion test is the only standardised method currently available to assess the ash melting behaviour of solid biomass, but the significance of this test is frequently criticised, in particular the applicability for low-quality wood or non-wooden biomass. Thus a respective normative regulation has not been included in the EN 14961-2, which is considered a major drawback for future development of the high quality end consumer market for wood pellets. A number of alternative test methods have been developed to predict the ash melting properties of biomass fuels, but predictions and test results have scarcely been evaluated regarding their significance with regard to the practical performance of the fuels during combustion. The objectives of the AshMelT project are to - Develop a test method for the assessment of the ash melting characteristics of solid biofuels - Specify ash melting classes for solid biofuels - Work out a proposal for a European standard for the developed test method - Develop a proposal for the implementation of the developed procedure as a testing reference in the ENplus® wood pellets label To meet the above specified objectives laboratory experiments and combustion experiments are conducted by RTD institutions from all over Europe. Results are validated by external laboratories in a Round Robin test and by combustion tests conducted by RTD performers and boiler manufacturers.

Keywords: energy,biomass combustion,slag formation
Quantification of the degradation of microstructured coatings (MICROCOAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199827.95
EU funding (EUR): 149495.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

For a successful geometrical characterization of the described microstructured coatings, the lateral resolution of the measurement device should be higher than 250 nm. Therefore, a confocal microscope or white light interferometer will be used for the laboratory measurements. To obtain reliable and accurate geometrical information, the optical measurement results will be verified by a secondary electron microscope (SEM). Its advantage is the higher lateral resolution and the ability to detect steep angles. Though a SEM only produces 2D images, it is possible to evaluate the 3D-geometry of local structures using the shape from shading method. For a degradation analysis, the 3D measurement results will be used for calculation of the task-relevant geometric parameters. For this purpose different mathematical instruments such as Fourier analysis and statistical estimation can be used. The parameters are presented as histograms and correspondent distributions. The solutions, which were developed for laboratory tests, cannot be directly used for quasi-real time measurements because the micro-coating production rates are usually distinctly higher. For this reason, the surface is examined using 2d cameras. Here not the real 3D topography, but secondary characteristics, such as the specific reflection of corners or the darker indications from tilted surfaces, are being controlled. The areal scanning will be achieved with the aid of highly precise linear axes. If a divergence from the desired course is found during the camera examination, this spot will be examined with confocal microscopes. These microscopes can be installed on positioning devices. The 3D measurement results are additionally tested for their precision and robustness. If necessary, improvements may be implemented which aim particularly at the elimination of oscillations in the system. In conclusion, time optimization is performed by distributing the control of the system on several synchronized workstations.

Keywords: microstructured coatings,optical measurements,surface inspection using line cameras,confocal microscope,verification using sem
ANotec-COmoti Rotorcraft Acoustics initiative for preliminary acoustic flight tests for the tuning of simplified rotorcraft noise models (ANCORA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain,Romania
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 284200.0
EU funding (EUR): 213150.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

One of the objectives of GRC5 is to implement a tool for the minimisation of noise impact on the ground, capable of being executed on-board “on-the-fly”, providing flight directives to the FMS of the helicopter. To this end reliable and fast noise predictions will have to be made, based on actual flight conditions. The envisaged semi-emperical model to be used for this purpose requires information to be derived from experimental data. The main objective of ANCORA is to determine the transfer function between the noise measured on-board the helicopter, close to the noise sources, and the noise received on the ground by a grid of microphones, during a flight test campaign. ANCORA will investigate the application of surface microphones on the helicopter fuselage and will subsequently use this knowledge for the flight test campaign. ANCORA will deliver a robust and reliable mobile noise measurement system, easily scalable and optimised for minimum deployment time and cost. During the test campaign a large number of steady-state conditions and manoeuvres will be flown over a grid consisting of 31 microphones. ANCORA will develop an advanced method for the determination of the transfer functions between on-board and ground microphones All results from the flight tests and data analysis (raw data, 1/3 octave spectra, transfer functions) will be made available through a data repository.

Keywords: noise flight tests,helicopter noise,low noise procedures,noise prediction
Modelica Electrical System Simulation and Analysis (MODELSSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,Austria
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 399616.0
EU funding (EUR): 223978.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims at improving Modelica and the V6 Systems solutions related to Dymola technology, Dymola V6, to better address electrical modeling and simulation. The tool improvements will be developed by Dassault Systemes and the Austrian Institute of Technology will contribute by evaluating the new features and by providing new Modelica libraries. The new features that will be developed include multi-core simulation support, interactive parameter studies, improved post-processing and automatic documentation, requirement modeling, and model layers in the graphical user interface. Many of these improvements could be extended also outside of the electrical domain and would make Modelica and Dymola V6 even more attractive for industrial, large-scale, model-based development.

Keywords: modelica,simulation,electrical systems,v6 systems,dymola v6
In-Flight Monitoring of Wing Surface with Quasi tangential Reflectometry and Shadow Casting (WING REFLECTOMETRY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-24
End date: 2013-12-23
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 642800.0
EU funding (EUR): 482100.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wing wavyness will be measured with low angle (quasi tangential) reflectometry an steps will be measured with digital Photogrammetry on casted shadows. The combination of both methods allows dynamic in-flight with no influence on the aerodynamic caracteristics of the wing

Keywords: in-flight wing local deformation optical reflectometry swfa proof of function passive laminar flow