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Reduction in Maintenance Costs of Wind Turbine Renewable Electricity Generation through Online Condition Monitoring (MONITUR)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
To achieve the EC binding targets of 20% electricity generation from renewables by 2020 will require between 600 and 833 TWh to be produced by wind power which will require between 119,000 to 165,000 new turbines. According to the European Wind Energy Technology Platform publication “O&M strategies are based on periodic inspection; fault statistics from existing stock is either unavailable or insu ...
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Replacing the Animal Source of Viscous Fluids Used in Cataract Surgery with the Okra Plant Source (OkraVision)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,
Eye cataracts, leading to the loss of vision present a major problem for the aging population. This is currently cured by surgical procedure which requires a viscoelastic High Molecular Weight (HMW) product of Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Device to fill the space in the eye created during the surgery and to protect the healthy endothelial cells. Due to the growing elderly population, this market segme ...
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Microwave Cleaning of Drilling Mud and Oil Containing Hazardous Waste (MicroCleanMud)
Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,
...and must be treated on-shore. From 2003 and onwards Western European countries are expected to spend on average between 0.5% to 1.5% of GDP on soil remediation in primarily the agricultural sector, industrial plants, land development and municipalities. In Western Europe there are more than 600,000 contaminated sites with a market of about € 50 billion p.a. A threshold of 0.1% Oil Content (OC) o ...
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Development of an affordable heat treatment process for wood (TORCHWOOD)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,
"Recent developments of large scale heat treatment processes that use a variety of indirect heat sources are now available, as are traditional preservation treatments which involve certain hazardous chemicals. While these technologies offer some attraction to large scale enterprises, the ability of SMEs to afford this technology makes them an impractical solution. Furthermore these new heat treatm ...
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Development of novel sintered sphere filtering technique for moulding opaper pulp to reduce energy consumption and environmental effects of plastic (SINFILTRATE)
Start date: Jul 15, 2008, End date: Oct 14, 2010,
"China poses a major competitive threat to the European market for the manufacture of products for packaging. Moulded Paper Products (MPP) from China are up 20% cheaper than the equivalent EU products. Due to continued increase in prices there is a need for the EU industry to reduce cost affiliated with low energy efficiencies. A major portion of recovered fibre is sourced from local SMEs such as ...
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