Das Projekt "EOSC-hub" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH durchgeführt. The EOSC-hub project brings together providers from the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and other major research infrastructures that provide services, software and data for advanced data-driven research and innovation. These resources are offered through the Hub - the integration and management system of the European Open Science Cloud - which acts as a central contact point for all relevant actors. In cooperation with the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), the DKRZ brings the 'ENES Climate Analytic Service' (ECAS) into EOSC-hub, which enables end users to carry out data analyses on large amounts of climate data based on a PID-enabled and server-side approach. In addition, DKRZ participates in the EOSC-hub services B2HANDLE and B2FIND.
Das Projekt "European Climate Observations, Modelling and Services - 2 (Climateurope)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Met Office durchgeführt. The ECOMS2 Action will coordinate and support Europe's knowledge base to enable better management of climate-related risks and opportunities thereby creating greater social and economic value. ECOMS2 has 4 main objectives: 1. Develop a European framework for Earth-system modelling and climate service activities. The framework will be built around a managed network of European, national and international activities and organisations. 2. Coordinate and integrate European climate modelling, climate observations and climate service infrastructure initiatives (including JPI-Climate, Climate-KIC, Copernicus C3S) and facilitate dialogue among the relevant stakeholders, including climate science communities, funding bodies, providers and users. The user communities will include public sector, businesses, industry and society. 3. Establish multi-disciplinary expert groups to assess the state-of-the-art in Earth-system modelling and climate services in Europe; and identify existing gaps, new challenges and emerging needs. 4. Enhance communication and dissemination activities with stakeholders; operating a website; and undertaking additional stakeholder interactions to increase awareness and maximise project impacts.
Two key expected impacts of ECOMS2 are (i) to greatly enhance the transfer of information between suppliers and users to improve the resilience of European society to climate change and mitigation of the risk of dangerous climate change; and (ii) to improve coordination to increase efficiency, reduce fragmentation and create synergies with international R&I programmes.
As a key contribution to objective 4 mentioned above, GERICS will lead a work package with the objective to organise festivals to: 1. Enable exchange of knowledge among users, providers, intermediaries, funders through showcases of European climate services and Earth System modelling; 2. Provide results from mapping and forward looking analyses developed in other work packages to a larger audience; and 3. Strengthen science-policy and science-use interface.
Das Projekt "Neue Konzepte zur Abfallvermeidung und -behandlung (FORCE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Kobenhavns Kommune durchgeführt. Am 1. September 2016 starteten 22 nationale und internationale Partner die Zusammenarbeit im Europäischen Forschungsvorhaben FORCE - Cities cooperating for circular economy . Das Projekt hat das Ziel, neue Konzepte zur Abfallvermeidung und -behandlung für die Stoffströme Kunststoff, Biomasse, Elektroaltgeräte und Holz zu entwickeln. Der Fokus in Hamburg liegt auf der Sammlung, Erfassung, Verwertung und gegebenenfalls Weiternutzung von Elektroaltgeräten, um die darin enthaltenen (strategischen) Metalle im Wertstoffkreislauf zu halten.
Neben der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg sind drei weitere EU-Städte beteiligt, in denen sich die dortigen Projektpartner jeweils auf einen Stoffstrom fokussieren. Der Gesamtprojektleiter Kopenhagen beschäftigt sich mit Kunststoff-, Lissabon mit Bio-, Genua mit Holz- und Hamburg mit Elektroabfällen. In Hamburg soll u.a. ein Portal bzw. eine App für Reparaturbetriebe eingerichtet, Repair-Cafés und Sammelstellen aufgebaut, vorhandene Erfassungs- und Sammelsysteme optimiert und ein Pilotversuch für ein neues Sammelsystem initiiert werden. Die gesammelten Elektroaltgeräte werden - bei entsprechender Eignung - aufgearbeitet und zum Verkauf angeboten oder in Einzelteile zerlegt und recycelt. Die anderen drei Stoffströme (in Hamburg also Kunststoff, Biomasse und Holz) werden von der Stadtreinigung Hamburg in kleineren Demonstrationsvorhaben bearbeitet. Das Projekt leistet einen entscheidenden Beitrag zu den Europäischen Zielen, bis 2030 mindestens 65 Prozent des kommunalen Müllvorkommens und 75 Prozent des Verpackungsmülls recyceln zu wollen.
Das Projekt "Connecting Science with Society (EU-PolarNet)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Robotic subsea exploration technologies (ROBUST)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von TWI Limited durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Massive InteGRATion of power Electronic devices (MIGRATE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von TenneT TSO GmbH durchgeführt. By 2020, several areas of the HVAC pan-European transmission system will be operated with extremely high penetrations of Power Electronics(PE)-interfaced generators, thus becoming the only generating units for some periods of the day or of the year - due to renewable (wind, solar) electricity. This will result in i) growing dynamic stability issues for the power system (possibly a new major barrier against future renewable penetration), ii) the necessity to upgrade existing protection schemes and iii) measures to mitigate the resulting degradation of power quality due to harmonics propagation. European TSOs from Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and UK have joined to address such challenges with manufacturers (Alstom, Enercon, Schneider Electric) and universities/research centres. They propose innovative solutions to progressively adjust the HVAC system operations. Firstly, a replicable methodology is developed for appraising the distance of any EU 28 control zone to instability due to PE proliferation and for monitoring it in real time, along with a portfolio of incremental improvements of existing technologies (the tuning of controllers, a pilot test of wide-area control techniques and the upgrading of protection devices with impacts on the present grid codes). Next, innovative power system control laws are designed to cope with the lack of synchronous machines. Numerical simulations and laboratory tests deliver promising control solutions together with recommendations for new PE grid connection rules and the development of a novel protection technology and mitigation of the foreseen power quality disturbances. Technology and economic impacts of such innovations are quantified together with barriers to be overcome in order to recommend future deployment scenarios. Dissemination activities support the deployment schemes of the project outputs based on knowledge sharing among targeted stakeholders at EC level.
Das Projekt "Renewable residential heating with fast pyrolysis bio-oil (Residue2Heat)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von RWTH Aachen University, Fachgruppe Metallurgie und Werkstofftechnik, Institut für Industrieofenbau und Wärmetechnik im Hüttenwesen, Lehrstuhl für Hochtemperaturtechnik durchgeführt. The overall objective of Residue2Heat is to enable the utilization of sustainable, ash rich biomass and residues in residential heating applications (20-200 kWth) to provide sustainable heat at a competitive price. In this concept, various 2nd generation agricultural, and forestry residue streams are converted into a liquid energy carrier near the biomass origin at an economic viable scale of 15-30 MWth using the fast pyrolysis process. Subsequently, the fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO) is distributed to a large number of residential end-users. The FPBO should fulfill at least the draft CEN-specification for replacement of domestic heating oil and comply with REACH regulation. Additional quality control aspects for this application include the removal of extractives and solids from the FPBO. Ash is recovered from the fast pyrolysis process as a separate stream, and recycling and/or re-use will be evaluated in detail. Existing high efficient, condensing boilers are used as starting point in the project, as well as a proven, low emission blue-flame type burner. Within Residue2Heat technical development work is performed on the modification of such systems to enable FPBO as fuel. The emission control and energy efficiency of the heating systems are optimized by dedicated modeling of FPBO atomization and combustion kinetics, supported by single droplet combustion tests and spray characterization. This route benefits from the flexible nature of the fast pyrolysis process, allowing the use of various lignocellulosic biomass streams, but also by using modified residential heating systems for which manufacturing capabilities, market development and product distribution are already in place. Dedicated tasks are included to assess the environmental and social impacts, risks analysis and public acceptance. Additionally, business and market assessment activities are performed including specific issues on health and safety relevant to FPBO-fuelled residential boilers.
Das Projekt "SUNlight-to-LIQUID: Integrated solar-thermochemical synthesis of liquid hydrocarbon fuels (SUN-to-LIQUID)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V. durchgeführt. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are ideal energy carriers for the transportation sector due to their exceptionally high energy density and most convenient handling, without requiring changes in the existing global infrastructure. Currently, virtually all renewable hydrocarbon fuels originate from biomass. Their feasibility to meet the global fuel demand and their environmental impact are controversial. In contrast, SUN-to-LIQUID has the potential to cover future fuel consumption as it establishes a radically different non-biomass non-fossil path to synthesize renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels from abundant feedstocks of H2O, CO2 and solar energy. Concentrated solar radiation drives a thermochemical redox cycle, which inherently operates at high temperatures and utilizes the full solar spectrum. Thereby, it provides a thermodynamically favourable path to solar fuel production with high energy conversion efficiency and, consequently, economic competitiveness. Recently, the first-ever production of solar jet fuel has been experimentally demonstrated at laboratory scale using a solar reactor containing a ceria-based reticulated porous structure undergoing the redox cyclic process.
SUN-to-LIQUID aims at advancing this solar fuel technology from the laboratory to the next field phase: expected key innovations include an advanced high-flux ultra-modular solar heliostat field, a 50 kW solar reactor, and optimized redox materials to produce synthesis gas that is subsequently processed to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The complete integrated fuel production chain will be experimentally validated at a pre-commercial scale and with record high energy conversion efficiency.
The ambition of SUN-to-LIQUID is to advance solar fuels well beyond the state of the art and to guide the further scale-up towards a reliable basis for competitive industrial exploitation. Large-scale solar fuel production is expected to have a major impact on a sustainable future transportation sector.
Das Projekt "Bringing INnovation to onGOing water management - A better future under climate change (BINGO)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von LNEC - Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Industrial Development of Water Flow Glazing Systems (InDeWaG)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Bayreuth, Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Technische Thermodynamik und Transportprozesse (LTTT) und Lehrstuhl Metallische Werkstoffe (MW) durchgeführt.
