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Low cost sorbent for reducing mercury emissions (SOREME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...e project addressed a gap in European legislation on waste management, by demonstrating that the recycling of used tyres through pyrolysis is feasible and can produce a high-quality output in the form of activated carbon. The EU Waste Directive (2008/98/CE) does not currently consider pyrolysis as a waste recovery process, though this project makes a case for its inclusion as a means of recovering ...
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Energy efficient Silicon transmittEr using heterogeneous integration of III-V QUantum dOt and quantum dash materIAls (SEQUOIA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...ntum dot and quantum dash-based materials on silicon wafers, through wafer bonding. Thanks to the superior properties of those innovative materials, hybrid III-V lasers with better thermal stability, higher modulation bandwidth and the possibility of generating a flat wavelength-division-multiplexing comb will be demonstrated. Moreover, the hybrid integration of nano-structured materials on Si all ...
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Terahertz microsystems - Enabling the large-scale exploitation of the terahertz gap (TERAMICROSYS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"This project envisions the wide-spread use of THz technology in various applications in our society, which is enabled by the proposed THz microsystems, providing an unprecedented way of creating highly-integrated, volume-manufacturable, cost and energy-efficient, reconfigurable and thus adaptive submillimeter-wave and THz systems. Advanced three-dimensional micromachining is used as the key enabl ...
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Extended Image Sensing Technologies (EXIST)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

... domains.The image sensor research will focus on enhancing the capabilities of current imaging devices:• New design (architectures) and technology (e.g. 3D stacking) for better pixels (lower noise, higher dynamic range, new functionality within the pixel) and more pixels (higher spatial and temporal resolutions) at higher speed, time-of-flight pixels, local (on-chip) image processing, embedded CCD ...
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3 Dimensional Light sEnsing for Advanced Portable Devices (3D-LEAP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

...camera modules, to accelerate our growth, profitability and Europe´s competitive position in smart cameras for 3D-imaging. We introduce a paradigm changer by applying new sets of rules in one of the highest growth areas addressable in consumer technologies and, we will set entry barriers that are difficult to overcome for current and new market players; we will hit the market while established com ...
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Design and Manufacture of Scaled up 50 kg capacity Plasma Melt Overflow (PMO) system for the commercial production of titanium and iron-chrome-aluminium alloy fibres. (PlasMelt)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...illion of these batteries and 301 tonnes of titanium fibre production yearly. Currently titanium fibre is used only for very specific applications due to the complexity of the production process and high price. In order to satisfy the new market opportunity, a melting and casting process capable of producing fibres directly from a melt using scrap as a source is required to reduce costs of the fi ...
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Distribution and Gauging Interconnected Fuel System for the Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor (NGCTR DIGIFuel)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Secondo Mona, an established Italian aerospace SME with over 100 years of contributions to the aerospace industry, proposes to design, develop, test and qualify a high reliability integrated Fuel Gauging and Distribution System (DIGIFuel), providing active CG management, for the NGCTR. Politecnico di Milano will collaborate on new technology developments, especially about power and data transmissi ...
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Highly Integrated Optoelectronic Sensor (HIOS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

HIOS (“Highly Integrated Optoelectronic Sensor”) aims to develop and to launch world’s first light sensor with fully integrated optical stack. The fully integrated optically stack technology which will be developed in HIOS project will be the technology enabler which brings the highly integrated optoelectronic sensor to the market. The sensors which will be enabled in the first step are single ban ...
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Disruptive and patented microfluidic technology purification for ship ballast water, being maintenancefree, eliminating clogging of filters and providing significant life-cycle cost savings (TRILO-BWTS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...compact and have no moving parts, leading also to more reliable and ‘maintenance free’ operations, providing energy savings and lower life-time costs.Project outputsCommercialization in BWTS is a high risk - high reward action for TM, and as a result we are conducting a Feasibility Study, resulting in a complete Business Plan, taking a into account end-user needs, market analysis, cost assessment ...
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Praktyka zagraniczna - szansą na rozwój kompetencji zawodowych i społecznych uczniów technikum ekonomicznego i technikum organizacji reklamy.

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...nal Centre F+U Sachsem GmbH in Chemnitz. The main activity in the project is organizing 4-week internship in the training centre in Germany, for 15 students from 3rd grade of technical economy high school and 15 students from technical advertising high school. The internship will last from 15th February to 15th March 2015. The main aim of the project is to develop skills of students and teachers a ...
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Rotating bioreactors for sustainable hydrogen sulphide removal (Biosur)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...and leather goods. The tannery district currently requires very large amounts of chemicals and energy to control sulphide emissions and odours. The industrial wastewater is characterised by a very high organic load (COD > 15 000 mg/l), typically with large amounts of natural and synthetic tannins. An innovative technology with high performance in the removal of pollutants from liquid and gaseous s ...
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Efficient Synthesis and Design of Reconfigurable MEMS-based Band-Pass Filters in SIW Technology (SIWTUNE)

Start date: Feb 13, 2013, End date: Feb 12, 2017,

...ully reconfigurable band-pass filters that combine miniaturization, easy integration onto planar substrates, low losses, low power consumption, improved power handling capabilities and a low-cost and high-yield fabrication scheme. These filters are key components of emerging RF front-ends for future telecommunication systems in both ground and space equipment.To achieve this goal, different emergi ...
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Sound and Particle Absorbing System (SPAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

...approximately 15-30%. It reduced noise by up to 7dB. The project team tested and optimised fine-dust filters in laboratory. They identified the best material to provide low filter resistance and high absorption capacity whilst being recyclable at end of use. A project partner used computer models to calculate the optimum position and alignment of the trial walls so that passing traffic ensured go ...
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Energy recovery from landfill's biogas by the use of microturbines and biological removal of hydrogen sulphide and siloxanes (MICROPHILOX)

Start date: Oct 3, 2005, End date: Mar 31, 2009,

...es are a possible option for types of landfills where the installation of CHP engines is not feasible, either due to low biogas flow or to low methane content, or even landfill sites where there is a high biogas production that is being used in cogeneration engines, but where there is a biogas surplus that the engines can’t consume so the energy is flared. The project demonstrated the capacity o ...
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Sustainable management and treatment of arsenic bearing groundwater in Southern Hungary (SUMANAS)

Start date: Nov 15, 2005, End date: Nov 14, 2008,

...set by EU and the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. Within the project area, 170 000 people are supplied with drinking water derived from groundwater which contains arsenic levels 30 times higher than specified by EU norms, as well as variable amounts of methane, ammonia, iron and manganese. The EU has determined that water quality must be in line with EU norms by 2009. ...
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ENhanced and SUstainable TReatment for URban Stormwater (ESTRUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: Sep 30, 2008,

Background Storm water runoff in urban areas can contain high levels of pollution. The ‘first flush’ of rain is often the most polluted. First flush detention tanks have been successfully tested but the system presents some problems that are not easily solved, such as the availability of space. In addition, these systems require very sophisticated num ...
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Klagenfurt's Anti-PM 10 Action Programme in co-operation with Graz and the South-Tyrol (KAPA GS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Air pollution from high levels of particulate matter (PM) is a major environmental and health problem in many European cities. Raised levels of these tiny, solid particles in the air are linked to health hazards such as heart disease, breathing problems and lung cancer. The European Commission estimates that the problem causes 300 000 early d ...
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Installation of A Fuel Cell in Paris (FUEL CELL IN PARIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2004, End date: Oct 31, 2007,

Background High temperature fuel cells offer several environmental advantages: reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, primary and network energy savings and clean atmospheric releases. Builders of fuel cells, such as MTU and Siemens, have constructed cells for demonstration purposes for several sectors. The systems are not expected, however, and are ...
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New Eco Spray System (N.E.S.S.)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

... particles from the suction airflow. Paradoxically, dispersion caused by suction produces further dispersion of the sprayed product and wastewater treatment becomes necessary in order to remove the high contents of particles, as the majority of filters use water. An unsolved problem is the volatile organic compound emission (V.O.C.) into the atmosphere, which significantly contributes to air pol ...
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Activated carbon manufacturing using xylite charcoal for environment application (ENVACTCRB)

Start date: Jul 1, 2002, End date: Jun 30, 2005,

...ng a new ecological product, xylite activated carbon, by the application of a new, non-polluting technology. The new product was to have a uniform porous structure, comparable to or higher than the classical absorbents; • promoting the utilization of the activated carbon in the purification processes. The main actions were to be as follows: 1. Design and build a prototype that can produc ...
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Innovative process with new polymer coatings for eco-sustainable non-galvanized steel wires (LIFE-Inno.Pro.Wire)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

...daptation of the extrusion line for the new process, along with a demonstration of feasibility and the specifications for a replicable process with low resource and energy impacts. The PEF study will highlight the environmental advantages of the new production process compared to conventional ones, in terms of reductions in energy and resource use, waste production, and through 14 environmental in ...
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Terabit Optical Processing using Comb Locked Amplified Signal Synthesis (TOP CLASS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

...ines including environmental science, biology, medicine and security. However, its application has been hindered by the lack of a number of critical components – in particular the availability of a high-power, low-noise, truly-broadband, optical signal synthesizer/arbitrary waveform generator operable up to the multi-THz regime. To develop such a device requires full control over the amplitude and ...
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Zero- and First-level Packaging of RF-MEMS (MEMSPACK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Future personal and ground RF communications systems and communications satellites necessitate the use of highly integrated RF front-ends, featuring small size, low weight, high performance and low cost. Off-chip, bulky passive RF components, like discrete PIN diode switches and ceramic filters, are limiting further chip scaling. MEMS technology is now rapidly emerging as an enabling technology to ...
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Governing the speed of light (GOSPEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The GOSPEL project aims at developing new, highly effective technologies for enabling slow and fast light propagation as a tunable feature in photonic devices. In fact, controlling the speed of light offers a solution to a necessary, and often missing, functionality in broadband ICT systems: a time-delay/phase-shift line. The proposed research will address three slow and fast light device platform ...
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Technology for Wafer-scale Carbon Nanotube Applications (TECHNOTUBES)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

...gn, engineering, process control, quality assurance, qualification and process development. It will develop applications in cathodes for time resolved X-ray sources for X-ray tomography, cathodes for high power microwave amplifiers, interconnects for VLSI, thermal management surfaces, low stiction surfaces for micro-fluidic channels and filters, wafer scale fabrication of spin valve devices, and s ...
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Active Matrix of Any Shape with Organic Light Emitting Diodes displays (AMAzOLED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The target of project is to develop a highly reliable high brightness conformable low cost up scalable display for demanding applications such as their use in cars, aircraft or extreme sports applications. For the time being, in these applications, the LCD is the main display technology. Although its performances are appropriate in such difficult environments, designers are looking for a solution ...
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Advanced first response respiratory protection (FRESP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

...n activated carbon filter. Filters protect either against chemical warfare agents, either against (a part of the) toxic industrial chemicals. Combined filters exist, but with limited efficiency and a high burden for the wearer (breathing resistance, canister weight,…). These filters are also sensitive to the deleterious influence of the water vapour present in the ambient air. Biological protectio ...
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Compact Otdm/wdm oPtical rEceiveRs based on photoNic crystal Integrated CircUitS (COPERNICUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

...ers for 100 Gb/s optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) and wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, based on photonic crystal technology. There is a pressing need for these devices for ultra-high bandwidth data links in server farms, optical storage networks and on-board internet/entertainment systems, where demand is driving the data bandwidth and technology integration level rapidly upw ...
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Design methods for Radio Architectures GOing Nanoscale (DRAGON)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

...kage).The DRAGON project seeks to achieve distinct reductions in cost, size and energy consumption for multi-standard cellular handsets, and other products employing similar technology, while meeting higher demands on data rate. Increased data rates require the energy consumption per transmitted or received data bit to be reduced, both to save energy and to avoid thermal problems. When successful, ...
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Low power high image quality display using colour sequential display technology (GREEN)

Start date: Oct 15, 2009, End date: Oct 14, 2011,

...ly, but they suffer from severe colour breakup artefacts. The focus of the research carried out in this proposal is to find solutions that suppress colour breakup without the need for unrealistically high refresh rates. The hosting party published some first results using a 120 Hz colour sequential system with two colour filters and two colour fields. Although the colour break-up is reduced, it re ...
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Study of recyclability of printed or laminated plastic packaging films using supercritical C02 technologies (CLIPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...posal is based on the elimination (90% w/w) and compatibilisation of the paint contaminants in packaging by the synergetic combination of CO2 in super-critical-conditions (sc-CO2) with innovative high performance filters (micro-filters) and suitable coupling agents as a dispersion-aid. The sc-CO2 is a promising technology in the plastic processing industry due to its special properties such as pol ...
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Agile Photonic Integrated Systems-on-Chip enabling WDM Terabit Networks (APACHE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

...compact, scalable and cost-optimized photonic integrated components that will be capable of generating, regenerating and receiving amplitude- (OOK) and phase- (DPSK, QPSK) encoded optical signals for high capacity (>100Gb/s) WDM networks. The APACHE concept is based on developing devices having both multi-functionality and agility in order to reach Terabit capacities on a single photonic integrate ...
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Water Decontamination Technology For The Removal Of Recalcitrant Xenobiotic Compounds Based On Atmospheric Plasma Technology (WATERPLASMA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...toxic organic substances in concentrations that cannot be disposed off in effluents. Initial targeted industries are pharmaceutical and personal care SMES using solvents and managing wastewaters with high organic loads, nevertheless the potential market of the system can extend to other contaminants, even AOX, and to water disinfection. The project will focus on up-scaling of atmospheric glow disc ...
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Smart Silicon on Insulator Sensing Systems Operating at High Temperature (SOI-HITS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...ible, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integrated smart microsensor systems, capable of multi-measurand (water vapour, temperature, gas, flow, UV/IR) detection under harsh environment conditions (to 225oC, high water vapour level). SOI technology has several advantages over bulk silicon: enhanced electro-thermal isolation giving lower power consumption, ease of forming arrays of MEMS membranes, option o ...
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Terahertz Photonic Imager on Chip (TeraTOP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

... the electromagnetic spectrum. Many applications would profit from affordable and reliable Imagers for the terahertz band, notably in surveillance and security.The goal of TeraTOP is to develop a new high performance, low cost, THz Imager for passive imaging systems (0.5-1.5THz) based on CMOS batch manufacturing processes: A unique combination of several leading technologies will enable a real qua ...
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Low power high image quality display using colour sequential display technology (GREEN)

Start date: Oct 24, 2011, End date: Oct 23, 2012,

...ly, but they suffer from severe colour breakup artefacts. The focus of the research carried out in this proposal is to find solutions that suppress colour breakup without the need for unrealistically high refresh rates. The hosting party published some first results using a 120 Hz colour sequential system with two colour filters and two colour fields. Although the colour break-up is reduced, it re ...
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Agile RF Transceivers and Front-Ends for Future Smart Multi-Standard Communications Applications (ARTEMOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 1, 2014,

...eiver capacities in future radio communication products. These new architecture and technologies will be able to manage multi-standard (multi-band, multi-data-rate, and multi-waveform) operation with high modularity, low-power consumption, high reliability, high integration, low costs, low PCB area, and low bill of material (BOM).This will not just require smart RF architectures in advanced CMOS a ...
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Increased Water Efficiency with Ceramic membrane technology (IWEC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

...ests in a ceramic membrane solution, the barrier for other potential users will be lowered significantly. Also, by showing that ceramic membrane solutions have significant environmental benefits, the high performance of ceramic membranes is guaranteed over long periods of time and the lower operational costs outweigh the initial higher investment costs, the market introduction for ceramic membrane ...
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Smart nano-structured devices hierarchically assembled by bio-mineralization processes (SMILEY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

... scaled at pilot plant, will be directed and adjusted to obtain 3-D porous hybrid nano-composites to be used as: i) filters for air purification from nano-particles; ii) biomedical devices exhibiting high mimesis with human hard tissues, addressed to dental regeneration; iii) fibrous integrated photovoltaic devices. The control mechanisms inherent in the whole process will allow to establish a tec ...
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BRilliant Industrial Diode LasEr (BRIDLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

...ng with the increased power and brilliance, this will enable direct diode lasers to penetrate the metal processing market.BRIDLE's approach is modular, scalable and forward compatible. It begins with high brilliance mini-bars, whose emitters use intracavity filters to achieve 2-3x higher brilliance (~7W @ 0.8-1.5mm.mrad) than the best broad-area emitters (~7W @ 2.7mm.mrad). Fine and coarse spectra ...
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