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LIFE VANECO- Reduction of energy consumption and salt co-production during oxidation and condensation reactions (LIFE VANECO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Background With a more than 30% share of total industrial energy use worldwide (including feedstocks), the chemical/petrochemical sector is by far the largest energy user in industry, with related high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Environment Agency, the European chemicals industry, including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals ...
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LIFE STIMUL: Seed Treatments to keep Inputs at Minimum Use Level (LIFE STIMUL)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Background The extreme toxicity of certain pesticides causes risk to human and animal health through direct exposure (e.g. industrial workers producing pesticides and operators using them) or indirect exposure (e.g. food consumers). Chronic exposure leads to effects such as carcinogenicity, mutagenicity and genotoxicity, or adverse effects on the immune o ...
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Na-Ion bAttery Demonstration for Electric Storage (NAIADES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Wide scale implementation of renewable energy will require growth in production of inexpensive, efficient energy storage systems. The extension of battery technology to large-scale storage will become necessary as intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and wave become more prevalent and integrated into electrical grid. Lithium-ion battery appears as quite mature for this applica ...
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Solution Processed OLEDs for Lighting (SOLEDLIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Highly efficient organic electroluminescent devices (OLEDs) are a technology that promises to reduce significantly the electricity consumption. The estimated market for OLED lighting products is large ($8 billion) and European lighting manufacturers are ideally positioned to capture a large part of it. Glass OLED products prepared by vacuum evaporation techniques have been demonstrated with good p ...
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Integrated Control and Sensing for Sustainable Operation of Flexible Intensified Processes (CONSENS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Intensified continuous processes are a key innovation of the last decade for the production of high quality, high value and customer-specific products at competitive prices in a sustainable fashion. To realize the potential of this technology, key steps must be made towards long-term stable, tightly controlled and fully automated production. The goal of the CONSENS project is to advance the contin ...
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Recycling demonstrator for revalorization of technical textile wastes (Move4earth)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background More than 70% of airbag cushions produced in the world are made of polyamide fabrics coated with silicone. Polyamides are synthetic polymers- such as nylon – that are commonly used in textiles, automotives, carpet and sportswear because of their extreme durability and strength. In Europe, the airbag cushion industry generates some 9 000 tonn ...
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Supramolecular assembly of polymeric structures: a novel route to enhance soft materials properties (SUPOLEN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Supramolecular polymeric assemblies represent an emerging, promising class of systems with superior versatility compared to their covalent polymeric counterparts. They offer exciting new opportunities for stimuli-responsive structures exhibiting reversible tunable properties, with applications in foodstuff, coatings , cost-efficient processes or biomedical areas. To explore their potential and de ...
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European Rare Earth Magnet Recycling Network (EREAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Because China dominates the rare-earth market and is reducing its export quota, there is a very high supply risk for rare earths in Europe. To tackle this rare-earth crisis, Europe needs to invest in primary mining, substitution and, in particular, urban mining/recycling. To date, less than 1% of the rare earths are being recycled, due to, amongst others, a lack of efficient recycling technologie ...
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LIFE AUTO: Demonstration and validation of an innovative automatic fuel additives system for the diesel fuel (LIFE AUTO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background The implementation of more stringent European diesel exhaust emission standards (e.g. EURO 5 and EURO 6) forces the automotive industry to use the Diesel Particle Filter (DPF) technology that is common in passenger cars in Europe. To enhance DPF regeneration, one of the main technologies uses an ‘on board’ fuel additive, called Fuel Borne C ...
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Sustainable PoLymers from Algae Sugars and Hydrocarbons (SPLASH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The 4-year SPLASH project will develop a new biobased industrial platform using microalgae as a renewable raw material for the sustainable production and recovery of hydrocarbons and (exo)polysaccharides from the species Botryococcus braunii and further conversion to renewable polymers. The project comprises 20 partners of which 40% SME and several large corporates plus universities and research i ...
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Sustainability Toolkit for easY Life-cycle Evaluation (STYLE)

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

The SPIRE Roadmap calls for an industry-focused study of current sustainability assessment approaches across the process industries, with the aim of identifying and promoting a suitable ‘toolkit’. Project STYLE is 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 ...
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Optimized oxidoreductases for medium and large scale industrial biotransformations (INDOX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The INDOX proposal on industrial oxidoreductases aims to provide relevant industrial case stories to demonstrate the efficacy of optimized biocatalysts on targeted reactions, and to establish the processes scalability, sustainability and cost-efficiency versus chemical conversion processes. The chemical industry (specialties excluded) is not yet embracing enzymatic oxidation reactions to a signifi ...
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Integrated low temperature methanol steam reforming and high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (BeingEnergy)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Hydrogen is foreseen to be the energy vector of the future. However, there are still significant barriers to store and transport hydrogen, especially in small portable applications. The success of a portable Fuel Cell system depends to a large extent on the fuel supply that should be accomplished in a cost-effective and comfortable manner.The present project proposes a power supply comprising a me ...
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CO2 REduction for long distance transport (CORE)

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

"The project proposal CORE (CO2 REduction for long distance transport) is a collaborative large-scale integrating project for a call within FP7-SUSTAINABLE SURFACE TRANSPORT (SST)-2011-RTD-1. The project consortium consists of three truck manufactures in Europe, Volvo, Daimler and IVECO, together with 13 other partners in the automotive industry and universities.The objective is to demonstrate a s ...
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Integration of Bio-Conversion and Separation Technology for the production and application of platform chemicals from 2nd generation biomass (BIOCONSEPT)

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

BioConSepT aims to demonstrate the technically feasibility of White Biotech processes for the conversion of 2nd generation biomass into platform chemicals, which are 30% cheaper and 30% more sustainable than existing chemical routes or 1st generation processes. BioConSepT uses lignocellulose and non-edible oils & fats as cheap, abundantly available feedstocks, which cannot be used as food. The ma ...
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Sugar Alcohol based Materials for Seasonal Storage Applications (SAM.SSA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The SAM.SSA project aims at developing new phase change materials (PCM) for thermal energy seasonal storage applications (STES) in the range of medium temperatures. The generated materials shall provide:• Low cost, environmentally sound and safe solutions for seasonal storage applications• Easy adjustment of the melting point for optimal ”tuning” to the required applications• Energy densities > 20 ...
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Validation of a process of recovery and revalorisation of Rare Earth elements contained in wastes (LOOP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

...hose elements can lead to severe environmental damage if improperly managed. RE elements are considered by the EU as a "critical mineral raw material", for which recycling activities are recommended. Rhodia (the project beneficiary) operates two plants for recycling RE elements in France. Objectives The LOOP project aim ...
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European Li-Ion Battery Advanced Manufacturing for Electric Vehicles (ELIBAMA)

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

The global objective of the ELIBAMA project is to enhance and accelerate the creation of a strong European automotive battery industry structured around industrial companies already committed to mass production of Li-ion cells and batteries for EVs. Europe faces strong competition from Asia and the USA where more investments and production capacities for Li-ion batteries currently exist. The ELIBA ...
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Multiscale computational approach to the design of polymer-matrix nanocomposites (COMPNANOCOMP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"This project aims at the development of multiscale simulation methodology and software for predicting the morphology (spatial distribution and state of aggregation of nanoparticles), thermal (glass temperature), mechanical (viscoelastic storage and loss moduli, plasticity, fracture toughness and compression strength), electrical and optical properties of soft and hard polymer matrix nanocomposite ...
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Efficient, low-cost, stable tandem organic devices (X10D)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

X10D aims to enable organic photovoltaics (OPV) to enter the competitive thin-film PV market. It will achieve this by pooling the knowledge and expertise of the leading research institutes and start-up companies in Europe, and is the first project of its kind to leverage this knowledge irrespective of the processing technology. It will use the strengths available in device efficiency and architect ...
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Demonstration of the industrial viability of a new chemistry to produce eco-friendly solvents from nylon chain wastes (IRIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

... safer and more CO2-efficient, but not necessarily practical for industrial use. Examples are bioesters, which are produced by chemical reactions between vegetable/animal oils and alcohol (methanol). Rhodiasolv IRIS is a new alternative produced from the transformation of waste from polyamide-66 (nylon). This safe and easily recycled alternative has been registered and used on a pilot scale since ...
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Flexible, Fast and Future Production Processes (F³ FACTORY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The F3 consortium’s vision is that the EU’s chemical industry’s competitive position would be strongly enhanced if it could operate modular continuous plant (F3 plant) which combines world scale continuous plant efficiency, consistency and scalability with the versatility of batch operation. Our project will deliver such a radically new production mode based on: a) Plug–and–play modular chemical ...
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