Programmes

  • UltraCleanPipe


    A novel ultrasonic tool (UltraCleanPipe) will be developed which detects the presence of all fouling on the inside walls of pipes at an early stage with 100% volume coverage and then removes the fouling, whilst the pipes remain in service. The tool will have diverse applications to pipelines in food processing, pharmaceutical and chemical plant, and also to industrial and domestic plumbing pipe work. The tool will revolutionise current approaches to fouling removal in being much faster and in av...

  • SELFSCAN


    This project will develop an integrated system to monitor continuously the condition of aircraft components, using a novel integrated transducers for improved long range ultrasonic technique (LRUT) optimised to maximise UT wave-defect interaction in order to boost sensitivity.

  • TidalSense


    The most well-established technique for tidal energy is the use of tidal barrages, however, there are still only three operating commercially in the world. Tidal barrages are located in tidal inlets or estuaries and the tidal flow moves backwards and forwards through turbines.  An alternative and more novel technique is the use of marine turbines that are located on the sea bed that generate power from tidal flows. These turbines are submerged, with rotating blades similar in appearance to those...

  • NozzleInspect


    The aim of NozzleInspect project is to design an autonomous robot system that able to: reduce the inspection times, Improve defect delectability and sizing, Reduce human intervention which will reduce workforce radiation uptake and Reduce requirement for robotic manipulation and consequently reduce size and cost of robotic deployment system. The goal of NozzleInspect project is to improve the reliability of the inspection of the welded nozzle sections in nuclear and other safety critical facilit...

  • SIRRIMED


    SIRRIMED project will address issues related to sustainable use of water in Mediterranean irrigated agricultural systems, with the overall aim of optimizing irrigation water use. The approach proposed in SIRRIMED for reaching this goal will be based in an Integrated Water Irrigation Management (IWIM) where the improved water use efficiency will be considered at farm, irrigation district and watershed scales. These strategies include innovative and more efficient irrigation techniques for im...

  • EPINOSTICS


    The E-RARE Consortium “Epinostics” integrates clinical competence centres that study rare autoimmune liver diseases (AiLD) and research centres with expertise in spectrotyping of B-cell antibody repertoires, epitope-mapping and mass spectrometric analysis of antibodies. This consortium focuses on the investigation of humoral immune responses directed to hepatocytes in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and to cholangiocytes in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

  • Thermomics


    The current proposal addresses mechanisms that may explain the sequence of events leading to heat stroke and death. The project's main objective is to identify whether the regulated index of human thermoregulation is temperature- of heat-based by applying thermal stimuli in different bodily systems while making precise time-based measurements of temperature and heat storage.  The potential benefit from this research is vast because it will help us understand the pathophysiological mechanisms rel...

  • Active Aging


    The proposed study will be the first to try to connect statins with muscle damage from molecular to organism level in an exercise context. Given the fact that taking statins combined with exercise is a very common practice, the results of this study may reveal evidence whether treatment with statins exerts beneficial, detrimental or no effects on human biology and health, particularly for the older exercising people.

  • Future Farm


    The FutureFarm project deals with (1) the vision of the farm of tomorrow, (2) analysis of management strategies and required compliance to standards, (3) analysis and specification of knowledge based farm management, (4) knowledge management in the FMIS of tomorrow, (5) socio-economic, environmental impact and technology assessment, (6) influences of robotics and biofuels on economic and energetic efficiencies of farm production and (7) generalization, integration, application and dissemination ...

  • POBICOS


    The POBICOS project targets communities of regular objects with embedded sense-compute-actuate nodes, found in homes and buildings.  Such objects are inherently heterogeneous in terms of sensing, actuating and computing resources/capabilities. Moreover, the actual mix of objects available in different settings is practically unknown at the development time.  Thus , the main challenge of applications is to take the best possible advantage of whatever resources happen to be available at runtime. W...