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EXTREME LOADING ANALYSIS OF PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS AND DESIGN OF METAMATERIAL-BASED SHIELDS FOR ENHANCED RESILIENCE (XP-RESILIENCE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The tremendous impact of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, etc, which triggered technological accidents, referred to as natural-technological (NaTech) events, was demonstrated by: i) the recent Tohoku earthquake and the following Fukushima disaster in 2011; ii) the UK’s 2015 winter floods which topped £5bn, with thousands of families and businesses that faced financial prob ...
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Sustainable Processes and Optimized Technologies for Industrially Efficient Water Usage (SPOTVIEW)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Apr 2, 2020,

The objective of the SPOTVIEW project is to develop and demonstrate innovative, sustainable and efficient processes and technology components, in order to optimize the use of natural resources, especially water, in three industrial sectors (Dairy, Pulp and Paper and Steel) contributing to 44% of industrial water usage in EU. This resource optimization (including water, energy, raw materials and ad ...
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Innovative Solutions in the Process Industry for next generation Resource Efficient Water management (INSPIREWater)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

INSPIREWATER demonstrates a holistic approach for water management in the process industry using innovative technology solutions from European companies to increase water and resource efficiency in the process industry. This will put Europe as a leader on the world market for segments in industrial water treatment which will create new high skilled jobs in Europe. With extended collaboration betwe ...
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Advanced aRchitectures for ultra-thin high-efficiency CIGS solar cells with high Manufacturability (ARCIGS-M)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Advanced aRchitectures for ultra-thin high-efficiency CIGS solar cells with high Manufacturability (ARCIGS-M)This project´s goal is advanced materials and nanotechnologies for novel CIGS PV device architectures with efficiencies ≥ 23.0 %, thus beyond that of the current state-of-the-art technologies. The technology targets the BIPV sector and enables several innovative solutions for BIPV.The novel ...
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Industrial Thermal Energy Recovery Conversion and Management (I-ThERM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Waste heat recovery systems can offer significant energy savings and substantial greenhouse gas emission reductions. The waste heat recovery market is projected to exceed €45,0 billion by 2018, but for this projection to materialise and for the European manufacturing and user industry to benefit from these developments, technological improvements and innovations should take place aimed at improvin ...
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Turning waste from steel industry into a valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry (RESLAG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The RESLAG project proposal is aligned with the challenges outlined in the call WASTE-1-2014: Moving towards a circular economy through industrial symbiosis. In 2010, the European steel industry generated, as waste, about 21.8 Mt of steel slag. The 76 % of the slag was recycled in applications such as aggregates for construction or road materials, but these sectors were unable to absorb the total ...
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Scalable online machine learning for predictive analytics and real-time interactive visualization (PROTEUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

PROTEUS mission is to investigate and develop ready-to-use scalable online machine learning algorithms and interactive visualization techniques for real-time predictive analytics to deal with extremely large data sets and data streams. The developed algorithms and techniques will form a library to be integrated into an enhanced version of Apache Flink, the EU Big Data platform. PROTEUS will contri ...
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Production of sustainable, advanced bio-ethANOL through an innovative gas-fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted in the STEEL industry (STEELANOL)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

... A demonstration plant of approximately 25,000 tons/ethanol per year will be built; the first of its kind in Europe, and the largest facility built to date utilizing this technology globally. ArcelorMittal is the lead partner of this project and proposal. The gas fermentation technology will be supplied by LanzaTech, the engineering work will be performed by Primetals, and E4Tech will develop the ...
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"REsearch network for forward looking activities and assessment of research and innovation prospects in the fields of Climate, Resource Efficiency and raw mATErials" (RECREATE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"RECREATE is a policy support network that will collect strategic and analyse information about medium and long term research and innovation trends and prospects.The aim of RECREATE is to overcome this fragmentation, and to create a clear cut research agenda for the Horizon 2020 priority of climate change, raw materials and resource efficiency using an RTD perspective for a transition management s ...
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Development of a Low CO2 Iron and Steelmaking Integrated Process Route for a Sustainable European Steel Industry (LoCO2Fe)

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

Over the past decade, the steel industry in Europe has been spending a lot of effort in Research and Development of technologies that help in achieving the EU’s CO2 emissions targets and reduce the cost of EU ETS compliance. That has been done through a combination of large scale projects which were part publicly funded with European funding and partly through smaller privately funded research act ...
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Demonstration of the Double Regenerative Burner technology to reduce GHG emissions from Steelmaking industry plant (LIFE DRB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...furnace for steel slabs is 10% BFG with 90% natural gas. Objectives The LIFE DRB project will demonstrate, at the ArcelorMittal site in Ghent, Belgium, in a first industrial-scale application, the efficiency of an innovative patented burner technology: the Double Regenerative Burner (DRB). This technology allows the pr ...
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PHOtovoltaic STEel Roof: ready to plug BIPV roofing steel envelope based on green innovative technologies and processes (LIFE-PHOSTER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Solar power output is expected to grow by at least 25% annually over the next 10 years. In order to further enhance the impact of photovoltaic (PV) electricity production, technology costs must be lowered to achieve ‘grid parity’. Two generations of PV technologies have been in mass production to date. These are: mono and polycrystalline ...
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LIFE HICONOS - High efficiency combustion system for Non-Oxidizing furnaces for steel processing lines (LIFE HICONOS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

...a combustion system that uses an innovative rotating regenerator exchanger (a type of heat exchanger) in non-oxidizing furnaces (NOF). This technology will be tested at pre-industrial level in the ArcelorMittal plant, at Mardyck, in France. During steel processing, waste gases from continuous galvanizing lines (CGL - applies a zinc coating to the surface of steel) and continuous annealing lines ( ...
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Scale-up of Calcium Carbonate Looping Technology for Efficient CO2 Capture from Power and Industrial Plants (SCARLET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Calcium Carbonate Looping (CCL) is a promising long-term technology for low-cost post combustion CO2 capture for fossil fuels using limestone based solid sorbents. It combines the advantages of a small efficiency penalty of 5 to 7 % points and a low CO2 capture cost compared to competing technologies currently under development. First tests performed on the 1 MWth scale have confirmed the feasibil ...
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Sustainability Toolkit for easY Life-cycle Evaluation (STYLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...an industry-led consortium representing a broad spread of process industry sectors with numerous products that cross sector boundaries through their value chains. Partner organisations (Britest, ArcelorMittal, Carmeuse, Holcim, RDC Environment, IVL, Solvay, Tata Steel, Utrecht University and Veolia) bring together a wealth of knowledge and experience in the use of tools for sustainability assessm ...
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Simulation Platform for Non Destructive Evaluation of Structures and Materials (SIMPOSIUM)

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

In all industrial sectors, Non Destructive Evaluation techniques play a critical role for ensuring structures reliability, plant safety and increasingly also for ensuring quality and efficiency of products and processes. The emerging use of numerical simulation is a major trend in the field with tremendous potential benefits in terms of costs reduction, enhanced diagnosis reliability and consequen ...
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Alliance for Materials – A value chain approach to materials research and innovation (MatVal)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Currently, there is a lack of consistent coordination between the activities of the various ETPs, which has led to a diverse range of ideas as to what is important to European materials developments, and consequently a somewhat fragmented support for these developments. In 2010, a group of ETPs (EuMaT, Suschem, Manufuture, FTC, ESTEP and SMR) with most significant material agenda, came together to ...
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Geo-clustering to deploy the potential of Energy efficient Buildings across EU (GE2O)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Energy efficiency in buildings will play a major role in responding to climate change and energy issues, if we are able to trigger large scale actions involving EU, all Member States and their regional and local authorities. The concept of “Geo-clusters” is highly relevant, being virtual trans-national areas where strong similarities are found (i.e. climate, culture and behaviour, construction typ ...
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ONTOlogies meet business RULEs (ONTORULE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The objective of ONTORULE is to enable the right people to interact in their own way with the right part of their business application: different people with different requirements and background, ranging from business executives to IT developers, have to interact in different ways with different aspects of a business application, to use, control and manage it. We believe that this can be achieved ...
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PAthways for Carbon Transitions (PACT)

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

Most «business-as-usual scenarios» built up till now have shown that hydrocarbon resources scarcity and the growing release of greenhouse gases will bring the world far away from sustainability over the next decades. Then, deep changes in behaviours away from «BAU» are unavoidable long before the turn of the century in a move towards a post-carbon society. Urbanisation and mobility are probably ...
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End User Requirement fOr Process heat Applications with Innovative Reactors for Sustainable energy supply (EUROPAIRS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

The development of GENERATION IV nuclear systems is identified as an important objective of the present Euratom work programme. The significant support given in FP5 and FP6 allowed Europe to acquire strong assets in the technology of one of the 6 GENERATION IV reactor types, the (V)HTR. In line with these assets and with the recommendation of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform, whi ...
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Euronet - PBL : Education, Practice & Research. Promoting Practice-Based Learning in the Higher Education provisions for Business Administration, Engineering and Vocational Teacher Education

The project Euronet-PBL develops a common approach to Practice-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning (PBL) in three areas of studies (vocational teacher education, business administration and engineering studies). In all these areas, existing models are promoting cooperation between universities and enterprises via supporting learning that engages students with real tasks and problems of the w ...
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Innovation transfer on Fire Resistance Assessment of Partially Protected Composite Floor to SME's and Universities

This is an innovation transfer project, which aims to promote knowledge and design methodology of partially protected composite floor systems between engineers of various European countries in their own language.The phenomena of behaviour of the partially protected composite floor system in fire have been observed for the first time during the Cardington natural fire test in 1997. Analysis of the ...
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Greening Technical VET - Sustainable Training Module for the European Steel Industry

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

For global competitiveness of European industries a short term implementation of new mandatory skills within VET systems (national and industry related) is crucial. The project thus aims to investigate systematic ongoing and short termed training pathways by focusing on skills for ecological sustainability, which are a key for the global competitiveness of all European industries. As a model an in ...
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Technical Education on Resource Savings for Industrial Development

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

TERSID is a regional project, to be carried out in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, focused on the renewal of some curricula for the engineering field, to introduce more modern and efficient technologies to be adopted for saving of natural resource (raw materials, fossil fuels, water) as prevention action, or for wastewaters, solid wastes and air pollutant treatment as reduction action. The project wil ...
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CONTRACTERANTO - a communication-tool for high risk work environments where non-native speakers are involved

The project is based on the demand from various sectors who work often with contractors and their non-native speaking workers. Communication is a problem and puts the security at risk. The increased mobility of workers in European countries stimulates this. The project is the development of a database containing key safety related words and phrases, translated in European languages, named Contract ...
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