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iNTeg-Risk
(Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology related Risks)
iNTeg-Risk purpose is to coordinate research and development sub-projects for improving the management of Emerging Risks related to new materials and technologies that will reduce time to-market for the EU lead market technologies and promote safety, security, environmental friendliness and social responsibility as a trademark of the advanced EU technologies.
For achieving its goal iNTeg-Risk has divided the project in 5 main sub-projects with a timing of 5 years. Each sub-project contains several work packages and within them more than 200 tasks that focuses on critical factors for the success of iNTeg-Risk. The project will, basically follow these steps: identify specific emerging risks from particular study cases, develop solution for the risks identified, validate the solutions and disseminate them through the “iNTeg-Risk One-Stop-Shop” and finally ensure the sustainability of the project.
More than 60 partners from EU and non EU countries will ensure to make the strategy run forward by accomplishing specific tasks for which each entity is responsible for. EU-VRi is the leader partner of iNTeg-Risk - project.
Click here to see the list of partners.
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ESPRiT
(Enhancing Industrial Safety, Environmental Protection and Risk Management in Serbia by means of dedicated Training, Education and Technology Transfer)
ESPRiT is a project aimed at improving of industrial safety and environmental protection by means of enhanced Risk Management in the companies, especially in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The project, initiated and financed by DEG (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwiklungsgesellschaft), has started in June 2008 and will end in May 2010. Main partners for realization of the project are R-Tech and DEKRA Akedemie GmbH, main beneficiaries are power, oil, chemical industries from Serbia, as well as Serbian ministries, universities and small / medium enterprises.
General training concept in the project combines
- education and training mainly of employees from Serbian industries (professional education)
- extending the education curricula at Serbian universities
- on-the-job training of Serbian professionals in Germany and other EU countries (industry, academia, R&D, etc.)
- certification scheme for professionals.
At the moment almost all indicators of the project progress are fulfilled and this includes: 14 different courses developed, over 800 course participants, over 700 certified risk professionals, 16 trained trainers for future ESPRiT courses, over 25 certified risk examiners and senior risk assessors, 40 persons having short stay-based on-the-job training in German companies.
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Alfa-Bird
(Alternative fuels and biofuels for aircraft development)
ALFA-BIRD (Alternative Fuels and Biofuels for Aircraft Development) is a project co-funded by the EU in the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, started in July 2008. ALFA-BIRD is an R&D project aiming at viable technical solutions. Its objective is to investigate and develop a variety of alternative fuels for the use of in aeronautics, motivated by the need to ensure a sustainable growth of the civil aviation, regarding the impact of fossil fuels on climate change, and in the context of oil prices that are highly volatile and increasing in the long term.
The main challenge in the project work is developing fuels that meet the very strict operational constrains in aviation (e.g. flight in very cold conditions), and are compatible with current civil aircraft, which is a must due to their long lifetime of almost 50 years. To address this challenge, ALFA-BIRD gathers a multi-disciplinary consortium with key industrial partners from aeronautics (engine manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers) and fuel industry, and research organizations covering a large spectrum of expertise in fields of biochemistry, combustion as well as industrial safety. Bringing together their knowledge, the consortium will develop the whole chain for clean alternative fuels for aviation. The most promising solutions will be examined during the project, from classical ones (plant oils, synthetic fuels) to the most innovative, such as new organic molecules. Based on a first selection of the most relevant alternative fuels, a detailed analysis of up to 5 new fuels will be performed with tests in realistic conditions.
Alfa-Bird is collaborating with several other European and International projects:
- SWAFEA study (DG TREN)
- DREAM, SP5 (FP7 project)
- CAAFI (USA initiative)
- OMEGA & ECATS (national projects)
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F-Seveso
(A study on the Seveso II Directive)
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Support of KMM-VIN
(European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-base Multifunctional Materials AISBL (KMM-VIN)
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RiskNIS Package "A"
- (Risk management and use of risk-based approaches in inspection, maintenance and HSE analyzes of NIS a.d. plants)
The collaboration with NIS Petroleum Industry of Serbia has started in the first half of 2005; collaboration agreement was signed defining the frame and the field of future collaboration between NIS and R-Tech.
Package A is a part of the second phase of collaboration and, as a basic package, it is aimed to provide the "infrastructure" needed for the application risk based approaches in inspection and maintenance of NIS a.d. plants. The project has started October 2006 and final reports were delivered in May 2008.
The Package A has included 4 workpackages:
- Feasibility study with the purpose to provide the basis for reaching the ultimate objective of NIS a.d. in the field of risk management
- Basic implementation for Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Failure Analysis RCFA,
- Implementation of HSE, HAZOP and Seveso II Directive
- Basic training for implementation of RBI,
RCM / RCFA methodologies and HSE / HAZOP / Seveso II analysis.
In the end of the project
- feasibility study was finished containing answers to about 1000 questions related to general management, IT, inspection, maintenance, HSE issues in NIS a.d. (Base Resource Document - BRD)
- more then 300 pieces of equipment have been analyze by RBI (API 581 levels I, II and II, 20 pieces of equipment have been analyzed by RCM and 10 by RCFA
- about 40 NIS a.d. employees have been trained for risk based methodologies application
- software for RBI, RCM / RCFA and HAZOP analysis has been delivered and installed on NIS a.d. local servers ready to be used.
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RiskNIS Package "B" - (Risk management and use of risk-based approaches in inspection, maintenance and HSE analyzes of NIS a.d. plants)
This package was ordered by NIS a.d. after successful completion of Package A. The focus of this package is on full training of personnel and on RBI, RCM / RCFA and HSE analyzes for a number of equipment (about 2600 as required by the contract).
The work has started in September 2008 and will be finished in May 2010. For about 3100 pieces of equipment from oil refineries Pancevo and Novi Sad and Gas Refinery Elemir needed data are collected and RBI, RCM / RCFA have been done or are about to be done. As for HSE / HAZOP analysis complete safety report according to Seveso II directive for the pilot plan in Refinery Pancevo is in final stage of preparation.
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MUST (Multi-level protection of materials for vehicles by "smart" nanocontainers)
Contract No. NMP3-LA-2008-214261
June 2008 - May 2012
Abstract:
The destructive effect of environment and the corrosion induced degradation are the important problems which determine the service life of a vehicle or its components. The application of organic coatings is the most common and cost effective method of improving protection and durability of metallic and plastic structures. However the degradation processes develop faster after disruption of the protective barrier. Therefore an active protection based on “self-healing” of defects in coatings is necessary to provide long-term effect.
The main objective of the project is the design, development, upscaling and application of novel multi-level protection systems like coatings and adhesives for future vehicles and their components to improve radically the long-term performance of metallic and polymeric substrates and structures.
The main novelty of the proposed idea is the multi-level protection approach, where the protective systems (the “smart” nanocontainers) not only react adequately to external impacts, but also respond to changes in their internal structure, and combine in the same system different damage prevention and reparation mechanisms. Metallic or composite joints bonded by adhesives containing these types of intelligent release systems also exhibit improved durability against environmental degradation.
R-Tech and MUST:
The group of Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies (R-Tech) inspects multiple aspects of risks, risk engineering and risk management appearing in the project. R-Tech has dedicated units in MUST, responsible for analyzing and modeling the risks. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods are used here to deal with emerging risks of nanotechnology.
Risks in MUST are rated qualitatively on the basis of a combination of consequence and likelihood by positioning them within a consequence/likelihood matrix denoting different levels of risk. Besides, a quantitative risk assessment is performed comprehensively on technical risks of the project using advanced computer aided modeling and simulation techniques. R-Tech prepares a detailed risk management plan for MUST. This contains the list of possible risks associated to the completion of MUST objectives, a critical analysis of the risks, sensitivity analysis on different factors and a strategy on how to keep the project on tracks. To support the life cycle assessment in the project, risk assessment is performed and documented in such a way that it can be maintained throughout the life cycle of the system. All activities and products are considered to have a life cycle starting from initial concept and definition through realization to a final completion which might include decommissioning and disposal of hardware. Risk assessment is applied at all stages of the life cycle with different levels of detail to assist in the decisions that need to be made at each phase.
Consortium:
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ETPIS
(European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety)
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DE-TPIS
(German Technology Platform on Industrial Safety)
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AQUIT
(Education, Qualification and Certification of Serbian IT Experts for needs of German and European IT market)
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PARTICOAT (New multipurpose coating systems based on novel particle technology for extreme environments at high temperatures)
Raising the operating temperature is mostly the essential key parameter for achieving a higher efficiency of energy conversion as well as a reduction of pollutants and CO2 emission in practically all processes running at high temperatures. Several research programs, like the COST Action 522 for example, were dedicated to this matter. Efficient protection of components at high temperatures against aggressive environments can only be achieved by coating systems, as the structural material itself must be designed to meet the mechanical loads. Higher operating temperatures mostly lead the existing coatings to their limits and imply the demand for more advanced coating systems.
The overall objective of the project is to develop a novel, unconventional and cost efficient type of multipurpose high temperature coating systems on the basis of property tailoring by particle size processing of metallic source materials. The novel type of coating shall offer a new alternative for wide industrial applications. It shall possess multi-functionality and integrate a wide field of application areas, such as gas and steam turbines in electric power generation, aeroengines, combustion chambers, boilers, steam generators and super heaters, waste incineration, fire protection of composite materials in construction as well as reformers and reactors in chemical and petrochemical industry. The multi-functionality comprises thermal barrier effect, oxidation and corrosion protection, lotus effect, electrical insulation at elevated temperatures and fire protection.
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MATRANS (Micro and Nanocrystalline Functionally Graded Materials for Transport Applications)
There is an urgent technological need for elements performing in demanding service regimes (especially in automotive and aerospace applications) to be made of new materials having superior properties such as higher strength and Young's modulus, enhanced temperature resistance and thermal shock resistance, improved corrosion and wear resistance, as well as reduced specific weight and better recycling potential. In particular, a combination of extreme environments and complex thermomechanical loadings requires advanced materials with spatially varying properties. Conventional materials such as steels, copper alloys, lightweight alloys (Al, Ti, Mg), cast iron or even metal-ceramic bulk composites often fail to meet such severe requirements. The solution for these problems can be sought within the class of metal-ceramic functionally graded materials (FGM) offering a vast technological potential in engineering applications.
Based on the surveys among companies in the automotive and the aerospace sectors it is highly recommended to design and process new FGMs for:
- Application 1: Exhaust and propulsion systems (e.g. thrusters, exhaust headers, nozzles); required material properties: enhanced resistance to high temperature, thermal shocks, wear, oxidation and corrosion.
- Application 2: Power transmission systems (e.g. valves, camshafts, clutch facings); required material properties: low specific weight, resistance to high temperature, resistance to wear and corrosion.
- Application 3: Braking systems (e.g. brake discs, brake pads); required material properties: resistance to high temperature, friction and wear, high bending strength in room temperature (RT) and in high temperature regimes, enhanced thermal conductivity, structural stability in temperature cycles, lower specific weight.
The MATRANS concept is to use (I) alumina ceramics and copper (or copper alloy) and (II) alumina ceramics and Ni-Al inter-metallics to make functionally graded materials tailored to the specific service conditions of Applications 1/2/3. The project addresses the joint design of the FGM and the structural component it is intended for. Economical and ecological aspects of processing are included. Risks aspects of material non-performance are tackled, too. MATRANS has mobilized a critical mass of interdisciplinary expertise and highly specialized equipment. The consortium includes leading groups from materials science, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and computer science.
Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies (R-TECH) is involved in Modeling of uncertainties in MATRANS materials processing and characterization due to complex nature of the FGMs and the non-standard testing procedures. R-TECH also performs complete Life Cycle Analysis for MATRANS produced FGMs. Besides, qualitative assessment and management of emerging risks related to industrial safety and technology related risks is one of the R-Tech's tasks in MATRANS.
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