Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A new computational framework for molecular dynamics. (HPCAMO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a project in the research field of the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) fields with complex atomic systems. Current and ongoing developments on sources of EM coherent radiation with super-intense peak power and/or ultra-short duration (of attosecond scale = 10-18 sec) at frequencies from the far infrared (fraction of eV) to hard X-rays (keV) makes the present proposal a timely and essential one. The theoretical framework applies to multi-electron quantum systems such as atoms and molecules, systems that is known to be of particular importance in cutting edge research areas such as nano-science, atomic and plasma physics as well as quantum chemistry. By drawing our expertise around a well defined subject, through a very successful theoretical approach, namely the R-matrix approach, this project is aimed to extent and implement a theoretical and computational method, developed by the applicant during his Marie-Curie Fellowship, to describe (ab-initio) the dynamics of molecular hydrogen under strong EM fields. To accomplish this objective, it will be indispensable to merge methods from quantum and computational physics, thus demanding development of numerical algorithms on high-performance architectures.

Keywords: physical sciences,quantum mechanics,atomic physics,computational physics,3 d modelling
CO2 Site Closure Assessment Research (CO2CARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,France,Denmark,Sweden,Germany,Norway,Netherlands,Canada,Japan,United States,Australia
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5313492.44
EU funding (EUR): 3966574.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

CO2CARE aims to support the large scale demonstration of CCS technology by addressing the research requirements of CO2 storage site abandonment. It will deliver technologies and procedures for abandonment and post-closure safety, satisfying the regulatory requirements for transfer of responsibility. The project will focus on three key areas: well abandonment and long-term integrity; reservoir management and prediction from closure to the long-term; risk management methodologies for long-term safety. Objectives will be achieved via integrated laboratory research, field experiments and state-of-the-art numerical modelling, supported by literature review and data from a rich portfolio of real storage sites, covering a wide range of geological and geographical settings. CO2CARE will develop plugging techniques to ensure long-term well integrity; study the factors critical to long-term site safety; develop monitoring methods for leakage detection; investigate and develop remediation technologies. Predictive modelling approaches will be assessed for their ability to help define acceptance criteria. Risk management procedures and tools to assess post-closure system performance will be developed. Integrating these, the technical criteria necessary to assess whether a site meets the high level requirements for transfer of responsibility defined by the EU Directive will be established. The technologies developed will be implemented at the Ketzin site and dry-run applications for site abandonment will be developed for hypothetical closure scenarios at Sleipner and K12-B. Participation of partners from the US, Canada, Japan and Australia and data obtained from current and closed sites will add to the field monitoring database and place the results of CO2CARE in a world-wide perspective. Research findings will be presented as best-practice guidelines. Dissemination strategy will deliver results to a wide range of international stakeholders and the general public.

Keywords: co2 storage,site abandonment,closure,liability,conformance,leakage,long-term evolution,remediation,well,reservoir management,monitoring,modeling,risk management
Diagnosis, Screening and Monitoring of Cancer Diseases via Exhaled Breath Using an Array of Nanosensors (DIAG-CANCER)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091118, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1200000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer is rapidly becoming the greatest health hazard of our days. The most widespread cancers, are lung cancer (LC), breast cancer (BC), colorectal cancer (CC), and prostate cancer (PC). The impact of the various techniques used for diagnosis, screening and monitoring these cancers is either uncertain and/or inconvenient for the patients. This proposal aims to create a low-cost, easy-to-use and noninvasive screening method for LC, BC, CC, and PC based on breath testing with a novel nanosensors approach. With this in mind, we propose to: (a) modify an array of nanosensors based on Au nanoparticles for obtaining highly-sensitive detection levels of breath biomarkers of cancer; and (b) investigate the use of the developed array in a clinical study. Towards this end, we will collect suitable breath samples from patients and healthy controls in a clinical trial and test the feasibility of the device to detect LC, BC, CC, and PC, also in the presence of other diseases. We will then investigate possible ways to identify the stage of the disease, monitor the response to cancer treatment, and to identify cancer subtypes. Further, we propose that the device can be used for monitoring of cancer patients during and after treatment. The chemical nature of the cancer biomarkers will be identified through spectrometry techniques. The proposed approach would be used outside specialist settings and could considerably lessen the burden on the health budgets, both through the low cost of the proposed all-inclusive cancer test, and through earlier and, hence, more cost-effective cancer treatment.

Keywords: cancer,breath
Enhanced Design Requirements and Testing Procedures for Composite Cylinders intended for the Safe Storage of Hydrogen (HYCOMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Norway,Poland,European organisations area,France,Italy
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3642153.21
EU funding (EUR): 1380728.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for the use of hydrogen as an energy vector. To improve volumetric and gravimetric performance, carbon fiber composite cylinders are currently being developed. However, current standards governing the design, qualification and in-service inspection of carbon fiber composite cylinders do not allow cylinder design to be optimized. In particular, safety factors for cycle life and burst pressure ratios appear to be conservative, which results in the cylinders being overdesigned and thus costly. Furthermore, the requirements in these standards are often not based on degradation processes in composite materials but have been adapted from standards covering metallic cylinders. To address these issues, HyCOMP will conduct pre-normative research on high-pressure type III and type IV composite cylinders for hydrogen storage and transport for automotive, stationary and transportable applications. The project will generate all the data necessary to develop a comprehensive scientific and technical basis for fully justifying as well as improving the full set of requirements defined for ensuring the structural integrity of the cylinders throughout their service life, covering design type approval, manufacturing quality assurance, and in-service inspection. The outcome of the project will be recommendations gathering broad support for improving the applicable European and international standards and regulation on high-pressure hydrogen cylinders for automotive, transport and stationary applications, as well as defining a strategy for implementing these changes. These recommendations will include performance-based design requirements, and improved procedures for type testing, batch testing and in-service inspections.

Keywords: compressed hydrogen storage,700 bar,carbon fiber,composite,composite storage tank,safety factor
Peptide-based diodes for solar cells (PEPDIODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Israel,United States,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-FET, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3643131.39
EU funding (EUR): 2749966.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

In a solar cell that converts energy as efficient as the natural plant photosystems, electrons should travel over very short distances, through an extremely ordered structure free of traps. Guided by these principles that were worked out at WIS and CUNY, we want to synthesize many different peptides, and consecutively screen variants thereof for a putative diode function. When linked to light-harvesting building blocks, these should yield a novel type of solar cell that is based on biomimetic principles. To achieve these goals, UPC will chemically synthesize a panel of artificial building blocks that are designed to harvest light and/or tunnel electrons. When assembled into many different peptides, some of these constructs are expected to function as a diode, and, when linked to light-harvesting molecules, as a solar cell. Peptides will be embedded into a self-assembled monolayer of alkanethiols on individual gold pads of a computer chip, which will be designed and manufactured by IMS. Each individual peptide can be addressed by feeding in, and at the same time measuring, the amount of current flow in both directions through the gold pads of the individual pixels. A similar kind of screen should then detect a functional peptide-based solar cell. 10.000 Peptides per cm(+2) will be synthesized by a particle based combinatorial synthesis recently developed by KIT-G and PPP. These peptides will be transferred in the array format to the chip where they couple to the gold pads. Therein, peptides will be coupled through cysteine residues to the flat gold surface, where they are embedded into a membrane-like structure. We expect that our evolution inspired approach may open a novel route to very efficient, and very cheap solar cells. This is due to the small percolation distances, highly ordered modular peptide structures, the large number of generated peptides, the ability to easily combine and modify eventually found peptide-diodes, and the frugal material consumption.

Keywords: photosystem,peptide array,laser printer,solar cell,chip,self-assembly
Reverse Electrodialysis Alternative Power Production (REAPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Italy,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United States,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-FET, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3908828.0
EU funding (EUR): 2696996.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The project is focusing on the salinity gradient power – reverse electrodialysis (SGP-RE) process. It has been shown in scientific papers that the performance of the process can be increased by an order of magnitude when brine and sea or brackish water are used for the creation of the salinity gradient rather than the current approach of seawater with fresh water. The overall potential is very high and the REAPower project aims to enable the SGP-RE technology to play an important role in the energy mix of the next decades, contributing to the major objectives of energy policy for sustainability, security of supply and competitiveness. The following specific scientific and technological objectives are expected to be achieved within the life-time of the project: (i) Create materials and components tailored to the requirements of the process, including the membranes, spacers, electrodes and electrolyte. (ii) Optimise the design of the SGP-RE cell pairs and stack using a computer modelling tool developed for that purpose (iii) Verify the model, and assess the developed materials, components and design through tests on laboratory stacks. (iv) Evaluate and improve the performance of the overall system through tests on a prototype fed with real brine from a salt pond (v) Evaluate the results, analyse the economics, assess the environmental impacts and define the next necessary R&D activities for further development of the technology The REAPower project explores a new path that has been so far only theoretically analysed. A highly innovative novel technology will be applied that overcomes the limitations of the current approach. The multidisciplinary consortium brings together key players from the industry and the academic world to work across traditional boundaries. The development of the new materials and components will contribute to the establishment of a strong scientific and technical base for European science and technology in this emerging area of energy research.

Keywords: salinity gradient power,reverse electrodialysis,brine,seawater,brackish water
Silicon sUbstrates from an inteGrated Automated pRocess (SUGAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,France,Germany,Portugal,Hungary,Netherlands,Belgium,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5528752.8
EU funding (EUR): 3717653.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Since the silicon wafer still accounts for a substantial part of the cost of solar modules, reducing the silicon consumption per watt peak is one of the most effective ways of reducing the overall cost of PV systems. In this project we propose a methodology to produce a high-efficiency solar module with a very limited amount of Si. The methodology is based on two technologies: the first one for the fabrication of the solar wafers, the second one for the processing of this new material. For the fabrication of the ultra-thin solar wafers, a material, for instance a metallic material, with a high coefficient of thermal expansion, is deposited on the substrate at high temperature. The system is then cooled down, and the difference of thermal expansion induces some stress in the silicon substrate. When the stress exceeds the mechanical strength of silicon, a crack propagates parallel to the surface, and the top layer (which thickness reaches in this case around 50 µm) of silicon is detached from the parent substrate. The thin silicon layer and the metal layer are rolled due to some remaining stress. This stress can be annihilated by dipping the sample in a chemical bath. The processing of this material into a solar module is not trivial and the second technology developed in this project proposes to glue the ultra-thin wafer to a definitive glass superstrate. The Si material is then processed into a solar cell, and encapsulated into a module. The module and the solar cell process are integrated and are performed at low temperature (heterojunction-based interdigitated back contact) to be compatible with the glass thermo-mechanical properties. The project directly addresses a core issue of photovoltaic research and proposes an elegant, low-cost and very innovative solution to solve it.

Keywords: kerf loss,glass superstrate,heterojunction emitter,amorphous-silicon emitter,lift-off,wafering,handling
Future Deep Sea Wind Turbine Technologies (DEEPWIND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Norway,France,Italy,Netherlands,Denmark,United States
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-FET, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4178234.0
EU funding (EUR): 2992438.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The hypothesis of this project is that a new wind turbine concept developed specifically for offshore application has potentials for better cost efficiency than existing offshore technology. Based on this hypothesis the objectives are: i)to explore the technologies needed for development of a new and simple floating offshore concept with a vertical axis rotor and a floating and rotating foundation, ii)to develop calculation and design tools for development and evaluation of very large wind turbines based on this concept and iii)evaluation of the overall concept with floating offshore horizontal axis wind turbines. Upscaling of large rotors beyond 5MW has been expressed to have more cost potentials for vertical axis wind turbines than for horizontal axis wind turbines due to less influence of cyclic gravity loads. However, the technology behind the proposed concept presents extensive challenges needing explicit research, especially: dynamics of the system, pultruded blades with better material properties, sub-sea generator, mooring and torque absorption system, and torque, lift and drag on the rotating and floating shaft foundation. In order to be able in detail to evaluate the technologies behind the concept the project comprise: 1) numerical tools for prediction of energy production, dynamics, loads and fatigue, 2) tools for design and production of blades 3) tools for design of generator and controls, 4) design of mooring and torque absorption systems, and 5) knowledge of friction torque and lift and drag on rotating tube. The technologies need verification, and in the project verification is made by: 6) proof-of concept testing of a small, kW sized technology demonstrator, partly under real conditions, partly under controlled laboratory conditions, 7) integration of all technologies in demonstration of the possibility of building a 5MW wind turbine based on the concept, and an evaluation of the perspectives for the concept.

Keywords: deep sea,25 mw floating wind turbine power plant,integrated technology solutions,cost efficienciency,upscaling,technical challenges,validation and evaluation of concept
Upgraded Facility for Development of Silicon and Diamond Particle Detector Systems (PARTICLE DETECTORS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: International Co-operation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2010-5, 2010)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1479332.0
EU funding (EUR): 1319612.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The trend in nuclear and particle physics experiments is to deploy ever more specialized particle detector systems. However, the facilities in Europe are often overbooked to meet the requirements for the timely development and testing of such systems. This project aims to improve the detector systems development and testing capabilities of the nuclear and particle physics laboratories of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), in order to satisfy the demands of these modern experiments. The staff involved has an excellent knowledge of the experimental techniques involved, particularly concerning the modern trends employing silicon and diamond detectors. They are active in top European research centers such as CERN and GSI, but lack of adequate state-of-the-art equipment at RBI hinders the full utilization of their potential. Novel detectors and instrumentation will be acquired. Partnerships with seven European institutions that possess exceptional know-how will be strengthened, and experienced researchers exchanged with them. Thematic workshops will be organized. Qualified scientists that will enhance the research capacity will be hired, and be hopefully integrated at the facility. Realization of this project will have a synergetic effect, resulting in a high quality detector system development facility, as well as in an enhanced performance of large European physics experiments. The most skilled staff will be retained, preventing brain drain. RBI will be able to maintain and increase its involvement in cooperative research projects with EU partners as it will become qualified to participate on equal footing in the experimental development, running and upgrading of international collaborative experiments. The upgraded facility will be unique in Croatia with potential benefits for the broader scientific community and national universities and industry.

Keywords: particle detectors,silicon,diamond,daq,process control