Search for European Projects

11 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Tidal Demonstration for Energy Scheme (TIDES)

Start date: Apr 15, 2013, End date: Apr 14, 2018,

A full tidal array has not been installed anywhere, commercially to date. A number of the leading turbine manufacturers have part or full scale working prototypes which are under-going testing in various sites the majority of which are enclosed in semi-test environments. In order to move this nascent technology into the commercial arena and expedite market deployment, it is necessary to establish ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Industrial steam generation with 100% carbon capture and insignificant efficiency penalty - Scale-Up of oxygen Carrier for Chemical-looping combustion using Environmentally SuStainable materials (SUCCESS)

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

Chemical-looping combustion (CLC) has unique potential for reducing energy and cost penalty for CO2 capture, as it avoids the costly gas separation of other CO2 capture technologies. Early deployment is seen in natural gas steam generation, where gas-to-steam efficiency penalty with CLC is below 1%-point compared to 15%-points with amine scrubbing and 8%-points with oxyfuel combustion, all for 95% ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Hierarchical Analysis of Complex Dynamical Systems (HIERATIC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The central aim of HIERATIC is to develop a new framework for understanding complex systems as a multi-level hierarchy of sub-systems using non-linear decompositions.To achieve this goal, HIERATIC is structured in three interlinked sets of activities: theoretical work, deriving the novel mathematics required to identify suitable non-linear state space reductions of complex systems; software develo ...
Read Project

 4

 FINISHED 

Chemical Regions for Resource Efficiency, R4R: Improving research and cooperation in the areas of resources and energy efficiency in the Chemicals Industry (R4R)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Societal challenges, RTD and innovation offer opportunities to rejuvenate and transform the resource intensive chemical and process industries into eco-efficient high-tech solution providers, by switching to bio-based feedstock, improving efficiency of processes, by recycling waste materials and by looking at industry as an integrated system (industrial symbiosis). Objective of the Chemicals Regio ...
Read Project

 19

 FINISHED 

Emergence by Design (MD)

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

MD research aspires to satisfy two kinds of objective. The first is to develop the foundations of a theory of innovation dynamics that concatenates design and emergence. The second is to design a set of processes, enabled in part by new ICT, that can help to mobilize civil society to construct a socially sustainable future. These processes will assist the managers of online communities of netwo ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

The Innovation Society, Sustainability, and ICT (INSITE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

Our society is organized around a positive feedback dynamic that produces innovation cascades. In these cascades, new artifacts are inextricably linked with transformations in social organization and the generation of new "needs" for individual and society. Besides desired effects, these cascades produce disruptive changes in the environment and in society itself, ultimately leading to sustainabi ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Developing a 1.2 kW air-to-air single-room heat pump unit for heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HEATPUMP)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

We, EU HVAC industry AGs, represent the interests of more than 4,900 SME firms active in installation, commissioning and maintenance of heating, AC, and ventilation devices, are under threat from upcoming EC regulations (expected full compliance by 2015) to phase out such devices that are non-energy efficient, noisy, non-aesthetic and contribute to CO2 generation. These regulations are Directive 2 ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

Policy Options to engage Emerging Asian economies in a post-Kyoto regime (POEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Developing countries are reluctant to make any binding commitment as their per capita emissions are low and climate abatement measures conflict with their main priorities on socio-economic development. The question is if there is a way to simultaneously provide sufficient energy (which is also the main source of GHG emissions), to support poverty alleviation and economic growth and achieve suffic ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Grid for Vehicles - Analysis of the impact and possibilities of a mass introduction of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the electricity networks in Europe (G4V)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (EV, PHEV) have the potential to contribute significantly to solving contemporary and future environmental and economic challenges of mobility. Various projects in different EU member states are currently addressing the subject in an isolated manner. The G4V consortium consisting of major European electric utilities and distinguished academic institutions are ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Global System Dynamics and Policies: \nsimulation and visualisation technologies (GSD)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Society currently faces a set of new challenges that are both global in scale and highly dynamic. Some of the most critical are: climate change, energy, security, the spread of new diseases such as HIV and the continued devastating effects of old diseases, such as malaria. These issues involve resources and impacts which no single group in society controls, but which affect all people worldwide. T ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Probabilistic Long-term Assessment of New Energy Technology Scenarios (PLANETS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

"The goal of PLANETS is to devise robust scenarios for the evolution of energy technologies in the next 50 years. This is achieved by means of an ensemble of quantitative and analytical tools that are designed to foresee the best technological hedging policy in response to future environmental and energy policies. Focused technological assessments will provide the necessary guidance for technology ...
Read Project

 9