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Development of an Innovative Microfluidic Impedance-based Device for multi-parametric cell analysis (DIMID)

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: Ireland,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1389540.0
EU funding (EUR): 1056516.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Cell analysis has become an important technique and represents a fast growing market for a wealth of applications in the fields of life sciences, medicine, food and environmental analytics. While clinical (diagnostic) and research applications in the healthcare and drug discovery markets demand rather complex analyses at the single cell level, routine and quality control applications in food analytics and bioprocess monitoring require simpler, quick and cheap analyses, which work more at the cell population level and provide only low-content average values instead of high-content single cell data. Many routine and quality control applications, however, would enormously profit from a higher information content of the analysis and make various processes at research and production levels more effective. This will lead to the first low-cost, portable impedance-based microfluidic cytometer equipped with disposable chips, which will enable a range of new analyses and diagnostic approaches that can be performed simply and quickly, without the use of a centralised resource. The system will rely upon the availability of highly accurate and specific disposable microfluidic chips, an high speed electronic control unit and a signal processing software which will allow to timely and accurately retrieve multiparametric information on the analysed sample.

Keywords: impedance cytometry,microfluidic disposable chip,liquid electrodes,high speed electronics,fpga,cell analysis
Open and cost-effective virtualization techniques and supporting separation kernel for the embedded systems industry (VOS4ES)

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,Spain,France,Serbia,Poland,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1456877.2
EU funding (EUR): 1100470.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The use of embedded systems is nowadays spreading at an increasing speed, to all aspects of modern life as well as all phases of industrial production. Their use extends from everyday non-critical or soft real-time consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment, to highly critical automotive, railway, automation control and aerospace systems, which satisfy the most stringent real-time constraints. Regardless of the application criticality, however, the need for high integrity and high availability systems as well as for systems that handle their data in a secure way is common and solutions demanding. In order to follow these technology tendencies, there is a growing interest in enabling multiple critical applications to share a single processor and memory with non-critical and of different security level ones. Partitioned software architectures seem to be the future of secure systems. They have evolved to fulfill security and highly critical real-time systems requirements where predictability is an extremely important factor. The significant technological know-how and the high cost required for using virtualization technologies has prevented European SMEs which develop embedded systems, from adopting these advanced technologies and exploiting the competitive advantages of the existing virtualization solutions and especially secure partitioning techniques in their systems. The VOS4ES goal is to provide a highly extendible, open source virtualization layer and a set of supporting tools that will allow SMEs to have access to virtualization technologies at a low cost and with high flexibility concerning its adaptation to specific requirements as opposed to existing proprietary solutions.

Keywords: virtualization techniques,secure partitioning,virtualisation layer
Novel tooling for composites curing under microwave heating (MU-TOOL)

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,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1505918.65
EU funding (EUR): 1160500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project Mu-Tool is to develop an alternative method of microwave processing of composites, to enable the rapid and low-cost production of composite parts. The new process will result in an increase in energy efficiency, production efficiency, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and production costs. The principle of this technology will be the use of ceramic tooling which is transparent to microwaves, while the inner surface of the tools is coated with a microwave-absorbent material. Energy will be applied to the tooling through the absorbing layer only, minimising the amount of applied energy and therefore also minimising the cost and emission of CO2 gases. As the composite component is heated directly (via the absorber material), whilst allowing the tooling and microwave chamber to remain relatively cool, the process can be terminated and restarted more quickly leading to an improvement in productivity and a large reduction in energy use. The lower cost parts produced will open up new mass-market application areas in the field of surface transport. In the automotive field, the goal of lower-carbon vehicles is placing new demands upon the availability of low-cost, light-weight strong materials. Mu-tool will realise this potential.

Keywords: microwave composite ceramic tool coated material ?low cost? ?low energy? ?surface transport?
Development of a tri-generation solar heating and COOLing System including the Use of the heat extracted from the adsorptioN chiller re-cooling circuit (COOLSUN)

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,Switzerland,Germany,Portugal,Malta,Cyprus,Slovenia,Türkiye,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470790.52
EU funding (EUR): 1128787.47
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

About 400 solar cooling pilots have now been installed, tested, living and analyzed throughout Europe. Yet, none of them combines in a single integrated system the solar thermal tri-generation: sanitary water heating, space heating and space cooling. The on-going HighCombi project will result in a first tentative of such a concept. However, the partners of the COOLSUN project have already identified sources of comparative performance improvement, using the EnerSun system basis. To do so, the COOLSUN concept will combine : i)pure glycol stable in liquid phase at ambient pressure up to 170°C as the thermodynamic fluid, ii) a set of heat storage tanks, iii) an adsorption chiller delivering chilled water at 20°C to cool the building floor, which re-cooling extracted heat will be valorized and iv) a single intelligent control system performing solar energy injection on demand. The proposed concept has the potential to enable the full thermal autonomy to any inhabited building under the Mediterranean climate. This is why 5 SMEs from different southern European countries have asked Enersun, Honeywell, SWT, InvenSor and LNEG, acting as RTD Performers, to validate the technical and economical potential of this new solar heating and cooling system. In two years, the project objective is to develop, test and validate a prototype system that will optimize the thermal energy use, reaching a ready-for-industrialization system. The project will conclude on a public demonstration at the test site in the south-West of France. The coordinator, Enersun, is a research SME, whose Manager was already involved in a "Research for the benefit of SMEs" European project. Combined with industrial capacities of 2 manufacturing SMEs of the consortium, the COOLSUN system has a high potential to meet the market within short time beyond the project.

Keywords: solar heating cooling adsorption chiller
Selective tribological optimisation of fluid kinetics and efficiency by laser surface structuring (STOKES)

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,Spain,Germany,Ireland,Germany,Spain,Romania,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1303861.8
EU funding (EUR): 967315.8
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Economic losings caused by wear and friction are still tremendous, just in Germany the losings are amounted to 100 bn € p.a., for Europe the losses exceed 400 bn €. Recent investigations have shown that laser manufactured structures can exert considerable influence on the tribological behaviour of surfaces. Besides hydrodynamic effects, which can improve friction, the ability of the structures to store lubricant lead to the maintenance of a lubrication film. As the state of the art techniques for laser surface structuring, particularly for tribological applications are mainly on an a R&D level, the production technology is in need of adequate manufacturing techniques. Main topics in this field of research are the inevitable pre- and post-treatment steps of current laser surface structuring techniques as well as the high process durations. The overall goal of this project is to solve both of those tasks by the development and realisation of a process technology, which enables the process chain integrated laser surface structuring of hydraulic parts. The project aims to cover a defined segment of a growing market and the technological achievements will offer the participating SMEs promising options of upgrading their product values. In addition to the direct improvement of single systems by the investigations on demonstration parts within the project, the high transferability of the technique to further products will enable the value enhancement of whole product classes. This offers the possibility of a strong enhancement of the total product output. A consortium has been established, which covers the laser supply and technique as well as the surface preparation technology. Manufacturers of hydraulic parts are members of the consortium in order to close the technological range. Two powerful RTD performers could be gained, which are specialised on the laser processing on the one hand and on tribology on the other hand.

Keywords: laser,structuring,tribology,hydraulic,pumps,seals,efficiency
Early detection of HIV-1 using ultra-sensitive, rapid capacitive biosensor (CAPHIV)

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,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1280582.01
EU funding (EUR): 936500.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The HIV pandemic continues to be a worldwide public-health problem. The virus, which is spread through sexual contact, exposure to infected blood, or through shared syringes, is highly infective, rapidly mutates, and has no cure. Because there is no effective vaccine or other prophylaxis available, the current best practice and standard of care for those infected is an early, accurate diagnosis for the presence of HIV followed by immediate treatment on antiretroviral therapies and counseling. The most commonly used and widely accessible diagnostic tests and assays rely on the presence of HIV antibodies, but the window period before seroconversion takes place to produce these antibodies in the host can take up to six months. Moreover, newborns cannot be tested with these methods due to maternal antibodies masking their true HIV status. Thus, antibody-detecting approaches have major shortcomings in incidence and infant testing, which are critical components to early treatment and reduced transmission rates. Diagnostic tests targeting antibodies or nucleic acids are also susceptible to false or discordant results due to viral variations. Hence, of particular interest as a target then is the conserved viral capsid protein, p24 antigen. Under certain conditions, antigen assays can achieve sensitivities that nearly match those of NATs without the need for amplification steps, and the antigen has a much shorter window period than the antibody, allowing it to be much more effective at incidence and infant testing.

Keywords: diagnostics,diagnosis virus,virology/antibiotics/bacteriology in vitro testing,trials microbiology bioinformatics
High Efficiency and Rendered Colour Using LED Solid State Lighting (HERCULES)

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,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1358256.69
EU funding (EUR): 1041700.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Lighting accounts for 30% of all electricity usage in offices, homes, transport systems and retail. It is expected to be revolutionised by the widespread introduction of LED solid state technology. However, LED technology has some major problems to overcome on the delivered efficiency of multi-LED lights, cost, and the quality of the light colour produced. HERCULES will produce solutions for LED lighting for a range of applications. It will build on a successfully demonstrated concept that combines the light from different LED sources to produce near perfect colour rendition at colour temperatures as low as 2500K. HERCULES will provide the normal benefits of LED lighting – high electrical energy to light conversion efficiency (reducing energy consumption), instant start-up and efficient dimmability, but will also allow tuneable colour rendering for applications such as food retailing. It is essential that light sources produce high quality colour rendition, which has proved critical to the health and productivity of workers. High efficiency LEDs have very poor colour rendering and current approaches use multiple phosphors on each LED to generate a poor typically “blue rich” approximation to natural light. These phosphors can seriously reduce the efficiency of the LED, so more LEDs are required to achieve the light ouput. In a compact light source this has the effect of increasing the temperature of the LEDs, which has a very negative feedback as their efficiency decreases rapidly with temperature. The HERCULES solution will overcome this serious limitation. The key developments in this project will be: • Characterisation and selection of suitable high efficiency LEDs • Novel electronic driver design • Optical design for several form factors, especially to de-image LEDs • Low cost injection moulding tool making technique for optical finish • Precision injection moulding of optical elements • Novel luminaire design for indoor/outdoor/specialist applications

Keywords: led technology,colour temperatures,efficient dimmability,light sources,high quality colour rendition,phosphors,efficiency of the led,electronic driver design,injection moulding tool,optical
Boat Management (BOMA)

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,Norway,Germany,Finland,Italy,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1315000.39
EU funding (EUR): 994100.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

After years of focusing on products quality, pleasure boat builders have realized the need to emphasize the after-sales market and their customers’ demands for products that are both easy in upkeep and environmentally friendly. Concepts of Product Lifecycle Management and Intelligent Maintenance can be applied to fulfil such requirements and solutions are available in comparable sectors such as the automotive or ship-building areas. However, these concepts have yet to be applied to the boat sector. BOMA intends to close that gap for the benefit of Europe’s generally small and medium boat building enterprises. BOMA is driven by the commercial needs of these SMEs and aims to increase their international competitively by establishing Intelligent Products and Service Extensions for the marine sector. BOMA will benefit not only the boat manufacturers and their immediate customers, but the entire value network consisting boat designers, ship yards, charterers, component suppliers and marinas. The boat market cannot be underestimated – with pleasure marine industry revenues in Europe totalling in excess of €23 billion, BOMA aims to support a very significant market for innovative European SMEs. The BOMA consortium is driven by leading European boat manufacturers supported by leading research and industrial partners in the fields of Product Lifecycle Management and Intelligent Products. BOMA will develop services addressing Intelligent Maintenance, Sustainability, Upgrades and the used boat market. These services improve all phases of the pleasure boat lifecycle – from enhancing design processes with knowledge from the entire lifecycle, through the usage phase applying Intelligent Maintenance concepts and technologies to improve safety, reliability and quality to the end-of-life phase by empowering sustainability issues such as increased reusability, refurbishing and reuse of used boats and components parts as well as ultimate retirement.

Keywords: boats lifecycle management,pleasure boats,optimization of maintenance.
Novel algae-based solution for CO2 capture and biomass production (ALGADISK)

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: Spain,Belgium,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Hungary,Spain,Germany,Hungary,Türkiye,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3198326.69
EU funding (EUR): 2416600.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the ALGADISK project is to develop a modular, scalable, and automatic biofilm reactor for Algae biomass production, with low operational and installation costs. The reactor will be designed to capture CO2 from industrial emissions to produce high value organic products. In this system, algae will be grown both in an aqueous environment and on biocompatible surfaces, allowing for CO2 absorption from either the gas or liquid phase. This method will dramatically increase the efficiency of the reactor, and decrease water requirements. Automatic and continuous harvesting of algae will be designed to optimize CO2 uptake and biomass production. Adjusting the scale of the system will be trivial, as ALGADISK will have a modular design, and the installation’s footprint will be considerably reduced compared to technologies currently on the market. Design software will be provided which, based on user input, will suggest installation parameters, perform a cost/benefit analysis to calculate economic feasibility, and make predictions concerning the environmental sustainability of the system. The proposed system will be specifically crafted to meet the needs of European SMEs who are willing to produce algae biomass products from industrial emissions.

Keywords: feed,algal biomass,biofilm reactor,environmental sustainability calculation,microalgae,bioprocess,bioreactor engineering,co2 capture,nutrient additives
Efficient system to enable storage of high temperature solar heat energy (SOLCHEMSTORE)

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,Germany,Germany,Norway,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1745097.0
EU funding (EUR): 1291100.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Heating and cooling account for 49% of world energy demand, this requires significant fuel sources to satisfy demand and attention has now become focussed on renewable sources such as wind, wave and solar. Currently there are problems associated with using solar heat for industrial processes. Chief among these is that the availability of heat is not synchronised with the demand for it, with the additional complication that solar availability undergoes natural fluctuations according to weather patterns. Until now there have been no technologies capable of storing heat at a temperature level that will be useful in an industrial setting, 100-200°C. Therefore we believe it is essential that a new method of heat storage technology is developed. This proposal contains details of the approach we will take to develop an automated system capable of storing solar heat, and heat recovered from processes, for use when required. Using novel materials for the reactor and a thermochemical process involving reaction pairs to provide the heat storage, we will develop and optimise a system that will be appropriate for use in industrial applications where heat between 100 to 200°C is required. The system, comprising a Fresnel concentrator, reactor, storage vessels and process control equipment, will be constructed in as simple format as possible to ensure that it can be easily installed and maintained at the site where heat is needed. With over 310,000 companies involved in the food and drink sector in Europe, 99.1% of these being SMEs, we have selected this as our primary target market. Energy use in this sector is high due to processes requiring steam or hot water such as cooking, evaporation, sterilisation, drying, space heating and baking. However, other sectors such as abattoirs, the pharmaceutical industry, paper and pulping and the chemical industry could also see significant reductions in process costs due to a lower use of fossil fuels associated with the SolChemStore system.

Keywords: heat storage,chemical,solar thermal,fresnel,energy efficiency,food,drying,sterilisation,reaction enthalpy,store