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Continuous monitoring of the structural condition of the tower and supporting structure of floating and static offshore wind turbines (TOWERPOWER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

There is a growing interest in monitoring techniques and systems which can provide information about the condition of a wind turbine support structure, owing to a number of operational factors which have become apparent as increased numbers of turbine installations are experiencing longer periods of time in service. These include:• Instances of fatigue cracking in the support towers• Flange bolts ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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HarmoniSed ENvironmental Sustainability in the European food and drink chain (SENSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

SENSE will deliver a harmonised system for the environmental impact assessment of food&drink products. The research will evaluate existing relevant environmental impact assessment methodologies, and consider socio-economical, quality and safety aspects, to deliver a new integral system that can be linked to monitoring and traceability data. The system will integrate: (a) (regionalised) data gather ...
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Sustainable products from economic processing of biomass in highly integrated biorefineries (SUPRA-BIO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Economic and sustainable production of fuels, chemicals and materials from biomass requires capture of the maximum energy and monetary value from sustainable feedstock. SUPRA-BIO achieves this by focussing on innovative research and development of critical unit operations, by using process intensification to match economic production to the scale of available feedstock and by process integration t ...
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21 - Clean Enterprises of the 21st Century (CleEn)

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

Background One of main challenges that economies face is integrating environmental sustainability with economic growth and social welfare. This requires a move towards an energy and resource efficient economy. Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) maximises the potential of businesses to transform environmental challenges into economic opportunitie ...
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HIGHER-EFFICIENCY ENGINE WITH ULTRA - LOW EMISSIONS FOR SHIPS (HERCULES-B)

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

"The project HERCULES-B is the Phase II of the HERCULES programme, conceived in 2002 as a 7-year strategic R&D Plan, to develop the future generation of optimally efficient and clean marine diesel powerplants. The project is the outcome of a joint vision by the two major European engine manufacturer Groups, MAN Diesel and WARTSILA, which together hold 90% of the world’s marine engine market. The r ...
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Practical and Acceptable Precision Livestock Farming for SMEs in Europe and world-wide (BRIGHTANIMAL)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

BrightAnimal will contribute to economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development by outlining a practical and acceptable methodology for precision livestock farming. To achieve this goal, BrightAnimal has the following mission: To produce a framework for European and non-European small and medium enterprises on effective and acceptable precision livestock farming and to create a ...
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Open Innovation for New Food Product Development in the European Food Industries

The main objective of the Open New Food project is to increase the awareness and competences of the managers of the Traditional Food Industries SMEs, about Collaborative Food Product Development in order to boost the “integrated value chain model” of food production, through the cooperation of transnational partners.
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