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INNOVATIVE CELL AND STACK DESIGN FOR STATIONARY INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS USING NOVEL LASER PROCESSING TECHNIQUES (LASER-CELL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

"The alkaline fuel cell (AFC) is one of the most efficient devices for converting hydrogen into electricity. Project LASER CELL will develop a novel, mass producible AFC and stack design for stationary, industrial applications utilising the latest laser processing technology. This economically viable, sophisticated technology will enable design options, not previously possible, that will revolutio ...
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Sustainable Oriented and Long-lasting Unique Team for energy self-suffIcient cOmmuNities (SOLUTION)

Start date: Nov 6, 2009, End date: Nov 5, 2014,

The SOLUTION project mobilises public / private resources to build showcases of energy self sufficient communities in Austria, Croatia, Finland and Switzerland (together with the associated Slovenian community) with a strong potential for replication throughout Europe. SOLUTION is designed to respond to the needs of an effective take-off of the European SET-plan by demonstrating novel applications ...
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ENergy Efficient Process pLAnning system (ENEPLAN)

Start date: Oct 17, 2011, End date: Oct 16, 2014,

Today’s manufacturing plants provide a number of different processing possibilities for manufacturing a specific product. Each one of these processing possibilities poses different advantages and limitations that are function of both geometry and lot size of the part to be manufactured. However, one of the main driving forces in today’s production is the environmental friendliness and the energy e ...
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A new generation of fibre-based diagnostic sensors (BiognostiX)

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

The BiognostiX project will develop technologies and flexible manufacturing methods for the fabrication of inexpensive biodiagnostic sensors on fibre-based substrates (e.g. paper or card).Fabrication will be based on fluid-jet techniques, allowing the sensor platforms to be reconfigurable (customisable) at the point of manufacture to perform different biodiagnostic test functions including quantit ...
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Innovation for Digital Fabrication (Diginova)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Most products are produced by means of the established mass production infrastructure. Traditionally, this involves large stocks, high manual labor, large capital investments, high energy use, long distance transportation. Although many advanced new materials have unique functional properties that hold a great promise for innovation, they often need to meet the criteria and characteristics of this ...
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Development of new light high-performance environmentally benign composites made of bio-materials and bio-resins for electric car application (ECOSHELL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"ECOSHELL is concerned with the development of optimal structural solutions for superlight electric vehicles (category L6 and L7e), decreasing its environmental footprint and using an innovative bio-composite material for the vehicle body. Traditionally this category of urban vehicles has been relatively expensive and lacking of sufficient security measures compared to a classic vehicle (category ...
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Extending the process limits of laser polymer welding with high-brilliance beam sources (POLYBRIGHT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

PolyBright will develop high power high brilliance lasers with new wavelengths between 1500 and 1900 nm which are adapted to the absorption properties of polymers. With innovative beam manipulation systems for optimum adaption of energy, the project will provide high speed and flexible laser manufacturing technology to expand the limits of current plastic part assembly. Key innovations of the Poly ...
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Customised Wearable Functionality and Eco-Materials – Extending the limits of Apparel Mass customisation (MICRO-DRESS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

The Micro-Dress project aims to extend the limits of feasible garment customisation for men’s, and ladies’ garments, to include for the first time user-configurable wearable functionality, as well as user-selectable degree of material eco-friendliness. The challenges related to both added value aspects will be researched in order to prove these concepts within a pragmatic framework based on two di ...
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Highly Customizable and Flexible Packaging Station for mid- to upper sized Electronic Consumer Goods using Industrial Robots (CustomPacker)

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

Description Packaging workstation with teachable system architecture Electronic consumer goods have a large number of variants and are packaged manually. Automating the packaging process will decrease the production cycle time and costs also for mixed variant production lines, thus allowing that s ...
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Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions for Seafood Processing Stations (ENERFISH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

A new polygeneration application with renewable energy sources will be planned and demonstrated for the fishery industry. The distributed energy system utilizes cleaning waste of a fish processing plant to produce biodiesel. The biodiesel is used to produce the locally needed cooling/freezing and heating energy. In addition, a power surplus is generated for the electricity network or local industr ...
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Flexible Wood Supply Chain (FlexWood)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

A number of studies indicate that the market demand for wood will lead to strong competition between the different wood industry branches. This is especially true in view of a globalised wood market, in which production is characterised by fast structural changes and concentration processes. Competition between different wood industries and the development towards large production units, as well a ...
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Exploring and Monitoring Any Organisation's Environmental Performance Indicators (OEPI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The project "Solution engineering and Services for Measuring, Monitoring, and Management of Organizations' Environmental Performance Indicators" (OEPI) is about the design and development of a software solution resulting in a Single Space of accessible Environmental Performance Indicators (EPIs) that are grounded in a semantic standardization concept. The standard for EPIs and the suite of tools c ...
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Analysing Transition planning and Systemic Energy Planning Tools for the implementation of the Energy Technology Information System (ATEST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The present project aims at bringing together EU competence on a transition towards a sustainable and low carbon energy system through energy innovation, encompassing transition planning, energy modeling activities, and technology assessment. This will be achieved by creating a platform in which techniques and data are collected, shared and harmonized. The Objectives of the project are to: • Revie ...
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Supporting Energy Efficiency in Smart Generation Grids through ICT (SEESGEN-ICT)

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

Designing ICT for managing the smart grids with integrated microgrids is a challenge that cannot be won by a single utility, industry or country. It requires collaboration of all Stakeholders, in an interdisciplinary approach that brings together experiences from the different countries with their different situations and from different viewpoints, in order to contribute to a scalable system that ...
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