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International R&D Projects 9

National Projects 21

R&D Engineering Projects 29

Tests, Analysis, Evaluations and Reports 111

Studies and Consultances 119

Sumary

International R&D Projects

Sector Acronym Title

AERONAUTICAL MUAC-IREN Multi-UAV Cooperation for long endurance applications - International Research Exchange Network

AERONAUTICAL ROBRESENS Robotics and Remote Sensing

ENERGY ADVANTAGE ADVanced communicAtions and iNformaTion processing in smArt Grid systEms

ENERGY OPTIMAGRID Intelligent systems for optimization and self-management of micro-nets with renewable energies applied to industrial areas in the SUDOE zone.

ENERGY BIOSTIRLING-4SKA A cost effective and efficient approach for a new generation of solar dish Stirling plants based on storage and hybridization

ENERGY Advisory service in the development of thermal solar energy at low temperatures

MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

EFFIPRO Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process of Engineering Materials

ICT SWARMCOM New strategies for multi-vehicle communication

ICT PLANET PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked objects

ICT IoE Internet of Energy

National Projects


AERONAUTICAL FDIR-SPACE-UAV Fault detection and reconfiguration systems in space technology research on UAV platforms

ENVIRONMENT AvantO2 II New generation of advanced ion transport membranes applied to oxygen separation process for oxyfuel systems

ENVIRONMENT COMPARAE Development of a CO2 capture process using regenerative chemical absorption under enriched-air combustion conditions

ENVIRONMENT MAVIT High efficiency production of vitreous materials with cementing properties and low environmental impact

ICT GETM Electronic Management and Tracking of Freight

ICT NTSICA New Technologies for Intelligent Highway Signage

Ongoing Projects in 2013

R&D Engineering Projects


AERONAUTICAL MACVAH Command and Control System for Multiple Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

AERONAUTICAL ROBMAN Intelligent robotic system for handling large aircraft structures

AERONAUTICAL ROBINTER Robots for interior inspection of aeronautical structures

AERONAUTICAL REFLEX Aircraft flexible riveting robot

AERONAUTICAL Circuit Breaker Automation for airplanes

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AERONAUTICAL ATLANTIDA-SA Leading Technologies Applied to Unmanned Aircraft for Research and Development in ATM

AERONAUTICAL FSP20 Future Test System, 2020

AERONAUTICAL SINTONIA Unmanned Systems Oriented to Minimum Environmental Impact

AERONAUTICAL FUTURASSY Robotics for Assembly of Structural Composites in Aerospace Industry

AERONAUTICAL DEPLA Development of Light Protections for Aviation

AERONAUTICAL ECLIPSE Composites and Lightweight Material Structures for easy assembly processes

AERONAUTICAL ODISEO Development and Research in Electrical Systems

AERONAUTICAL ADAM Development of Automation for Autonomous Mobility

ENERGY PREXTOR Pressure exchangers

ENERGY/ ICT CHORUS Advanced System for integral energy management in high consumer installations

ENERGY/ TRANSPORT AND INFRAESTRUCTURES

FERROSMARTGRID Development of the first intelligent network for energy management in the railway sector

ENERGY Task developed by the group of the University of Seville in the Reliable proyect

ENERGY THESTOS Development of storage systems for direct steam generation in the framework of activities in the FEDER Innterconecta programme

ENERGY Collaboration in the mechanical aspects of the project "Design, development, construction and tests of a Bioethanol Processor System (BPS) for the AIP Plant of the S-80 submarines

ENERGY COMPOSOL System of heating and temperature hold for cylindric-parabolic mirrors with heat carrier fluid

ENERGY E3MEL Advance solutions of energy and economic efficiency in the electrical market

ENERGY Technical and economic feasibility of the reactive power optimal control of wind farms to minimize power losses

ENERGY UNBALANCE DISTRIBUTION

Scientific Support for Unbalanced Distribution Network Applications

ENERGY Photovoltaic Grid Integration

ENERGY ELECTRICITY MARKET SIMULATOR

Development of an international electricity market simulator with market splitting and complex bids

ENERGY Development of a computer tool to obtain external equivalents for electromagnetic transient studies

ENERGY MST CFD Analysis of the design of an accumulation tank in a thermo-solar plant

ENERGY AIRE Variable capacity efficient air conditioning system for electric buses

ENERGY Analysis of ventilation and distribution of air in metro carriages

ENERGY CE3 Complements

ENERGY MOPICE Methodology and predictive modelling of energy consumption indicators for verification of savings in energy services firms

ENERGY Simulation of the behaviour of a reformer for hydrogen production

ENERGY BIOPOLIM-A Butadiene production from Ethanol

ENERGY BIO Basic and Detailed Engineering of a Hydrogen Fueling Station

ENERGY SUNBIOMASS Assistance in the design and development of a Pilot Biomass Gasification Plant with performance optimization combined with a solar energy collector system.

ENERGY Conceptual analysis of hybrid renewable systems based on biomass and solar energy

ENERGY BIO-ANDALUS Experimental development of transformation processes from lignocellulosic biomass and other carbon sources in various bioproducts in Sustainable Andalusia

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DESAFIO Development of Intelligent Forward Fuselage Sections for military transport operations


SEAMAR Andalusian Eolic solutions for the sea


NUREMCO New reinforcement technologies using Composite Materials


CERSOL High temperature and pressure ceramic receiver for gas turbine and mixed cycle hybrid solar systems


ACMATERIALES Study of improvement and selection of materials


AVANZA2 New concept of tower plant with fluids at very high temperatures and better cycle performance with respect to the current ones

ENVIRONMENT BIOFIL Application of a new bio-ceramic material for filtration at high temperature and high pressure applications

ENVIRONMENT LIFEWATCH

PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

Development of microencapsulation systems.


SIMUVIA On-board Simulation for Track Auscultation by Observing the State of Railway Vehicles


Experimental Survey for Analyzing the Influence of Assembly Process Parameters on the Fatigue Life of Blind Bolts Riveted Metal-Composite Joints (MTQM-T-201010-S1)


AMASA Development of a new method of Execution of Ground Connection Points and Current Return


Analysis of failure of the Portachuelo blade-hub union

PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY/ ICT

OFFSHORE2GRID Integration of offshore power in the electricity grid


TORRESOL Analysis of mirror resistance in function of the superficial state generated by cleaning processes

ICT PROMISIS Mission processing for multi-vehicle systems

ICT NAVGROUND Navigation System for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle

ICT EMC SUPPORT EMC support for the design and development of electronic power converters

ICT Aress Development of Advanced Energy Storage Systems for integration of Electricity Generation Plants using Renewable Sources

ICT Cepheus Experimental satellite for the development of space technology in Andalusia

ICT PV ON-TIME Intelligent systems of production, storage and management of PV ON-TIME photovoltaic energy

ICT SBP Smart Business Park

ICT TIGRIS Total Integrated Grid Intelligent System

ICT Cubesat

ICT EnergyVias

ICT HV - STB Viability Study for FACTS Tension Control-HV – STB Project

ICT IeI Intelligent energy integration in weak networks

ICT SHAD Hybrid and Distributed Storage System

ICT Adapta Technologies for the Personalization and Interaction of Digital contents, Adapta Project. 2011 Innterconecta Programme

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ICT CAMP Advanced Metering Communication PLC

ICT LEDESY Leak Detection System in Gas-Solar Thermal powet Plant of Parabolic Cylinder Technologies

ICT MONICA Monitoring System On-Line and Real Time to Quality Water in Watersheds

TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES

MARVEDIP Dynamic positioning of marine vehicles

TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES/ICT

ARIDLAP Minimization of effects originated by extreme climatologies on high speed railway infrastructure located in arid areas


ATICA All-Terrain Intelligent Compact and Autonomous Vehicle


VICTORIA-GIVE Autonomous inductive guidance of an electric bus


Win4Smart Water Information Network for Sensing, Monitoring & Actuating in Real-Time

Tests, Analysis, Evaluations and Reports



CLC Test of characterization of anodes and cathodes used in copper refining


ABANTIA 2013 Evaluation of failure in oil conducts in a thermosolar plant


ASNT/ SALTS PIPE TESTS

Tests carried out on test tubes extracted from a molten salts transport pipe

ENVIRONMENT Absorbent characterization for flue gas desulphurization: lab-scale tests


Mechanical analysis of dental implants


CRAM Design and implementation of a rollover safety system in a tracked excavator

Studies and Consultances


AERONAUTICAL COSETC Experimental study of the in-service behaviour of the Tail Cone of commercial aircrafts

AERONAUTICAL Composite materials reception and requalification tests for Alestis

AERONAUTICAL EMC QUALIFICATION EMC Qualification of transformed equipments

ENERGY Abengoa Research/Finite Volumes

ENERGY Operation of transmission and distribution networks

ENERGY Transformer maneuvers with controlled maneuver relays. Electromagnetic studies

ENERGY SAREST Advanced system for rehabilitating buildings in the tertiary sector

ENERGY Designing transition architectures from an objective investigation

ENERGY Analysis of the power behaviour of the concrete enclosures on the grounds of maximizing the advantages derived from their thermal inertia

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ENERGY Effect of radiant solutions for floors and roofs in CALENER and in simplified procedures for energy certification

ENERGY Estimation by internet of the energetic and economic impact of substituting glazing in buildings

ENERGY CTEHE2012 Revision of the CTE HE

ENERGY Incorporation of the gas heat pump in the scheme of the additional capacities of CALENER programmes

ENERGY Consultancies for optimizing the load of two cogenerations and implanting a steam turbine

ENERGY CHALGAS Collaborative agreement between AICIA and CTH for the supporting of research activities on biomass gasification in fluidized bed at CTH


CEBASA2013 Extension of the expert technical report of the breakage in an axis of a bucket elevator system


AT COPPER 2013 Technical Consultancy


FACONS Manufacture of simulated nuclear fuel pellets and characterization of the materials


Study of the frangibility of an structure used in airports

ICT SMART-HDVC Viability study of Power systems for HVDC-SMART-HDVC

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International R&D Projects

INTERNATIONAL R&D PROJECTS

MUAC-IREN experiments for extending the flight endurance by means of soaring in multi-UAV experiments.

MUAC-IREN is an International Research Network devoted to the exchange of re-searchers between leading institutions in

UAV technologies. It has the following objectives:

• Development of technologies that will help to create Long Endurance Multi-UAV appli-cations, including control algorithms for the extension of the endurance of UAVs using wind energy.

• Development of control and estimation al-gorithms for all-weather UAV operations. This includes estimation and planning tech-niques to avoid weather hazards and control techniques to overcome extreme weather conditions.

• Development on new fully distributed meth-ods for real-time cooperation of entities, in-volving fault adaptive reconfiguration of the trajectories for long endurance applications.

• Reinforce relations between the different re-search groups and exploit their synergies.

• Disseminate joint work internationally

• Knowledge transfer on long endurance mul-ti-UAV applications.

This year, two members of the Robotics, Vision and Control Group (University of Seville) con-ducted two research stays at the University of Sydney (Australia).

sector: Aeronautical

name: MUAC-IRENMulti-UAV Cooperation for long endurance applications - International Research Exchange Network

client: EUROPEAN COMISSION

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The relations between robotics and energy for space and terrestrial applications are studied. The main objective of this study is, in general

terms, the identification of technologies in dif-ferent domains defined by the European Space Agency (ESA), that could be relevant for Euro-pean space industry.


name: ROBRESENSRobotics and Remote Sensing

client: ABENGOA HIDRÓGENO, S.A. AND EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

The AICIA participation in the project is focused on the robotics and remote sensing applications including both planetary and orbital robotics.

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AICIA participates as third party in this Pro-ject, included in the call ITN (Marie Curie Initial Training Networks). This call aims to

establish a european network of partners from ac-ademia and companies to train novice research-es from many knowledge fields. In our case there are 9 partners, 5 from academia (University of Edinburg – coordinator, University of Aalborg (Denmark), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), Cen-tre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalu-

nya y the University of Sevilla) and 4 companies ((Flexitricity (United Kingdom), Neogrid (Den-mark), Schneider (Serbia) and Endesa). Between all will hire 12 researchers, to whom research tasks will be assigned along with courses and training seminars organised by the same network. In all the research lines of the Project there is a com-mon objective: progressing in the knowledge of smart grids operation by the intensive use of in-formation and communication technologies.

sector: Energy

name: ADVANTAGEADVanced communicAtions and iNformaTion processing in smArt Grid systEms

client: EUROPEAN UNION (7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME)

Scope of the work packages of Advantage project.

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The aim of the OPTIMAGRID project is to de-fine, design and put into practice intelligent energy control systems that make possible

real time control of an electrical energy distribu-tion micro-net, applied to an industrial area with a high percentage of renewable energy penetration.

An added value to the project is the functional in-tegration of electricity and telecommunications in the electric energy distribution network. In this way, it will be possible to use information in real time in order to achieve greater efficiency, a de-crease in emissions, ensure supply and improve control of consumption.

sector: Energy

name: OPTIMAGRIDIntelligent systems for optimization and self-management of micro-nets with renewable energies applied to industrial areas in the SUDOE zone.

client: EUROPEAN UNION, PROGRAMME SUDOE INTERREG IV B

Experimental device for the OPTIMAGRID project.

Load and power source

Fuel Cell Electrolyzer

Batteries

Metal Hydride

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The project aims to develop an electric sup-ply system for SKA astronomic sensors. The main electricity generation elements of the

system are Parabolic Solar Concentrators with hybrid Stirling engines, capable of operating with solar energy and with gases coming from the combustion process of gasified biomass. The installation is completed by an electrical energy

storage system capable of absorbing the differ-ences between production and demand of elec-tric energy.

Innovating aspects of the system are: the design of the hybrid receiver(solar-gas) of the Striling engine, and the storage system that should guar-antee the stability of the group as it is isolated from the general electric network.

sector: Energy

name: BIOSTIRLING-4SKAA cost effective and efficient approach for a new generation of solar dish Stirling plants based on storage and hybridization

client: EUROPEAN UNION (7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME)

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The objective of the OPTIMAGRID project is to advise the Uruguayan Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining on various aspects relat-

ed to the development of solar energy at low tem-perature in Uruguay. The consultancy includes the following issues:

a) Improvement, diffusion and supervision of the Technical Specifications of the 314/010 decree.

b) Improvement that can be carried out at a standard level to develop TSE in Uruguay, as well as in monitoring the total and partial ex-onerations established in the regulations.

c) Control proceedings of the projects and the installations.

d) Advise the Uruguayan Technical Labora-tory (LATU) in the design of the tests of the UNIT standards (adaptation of international standards) for solar collectors, accumulators, prefabricated systems and custom made sys-tems of efficiency, quality and safety.

e) Follow up of the Solar Plant and in defining the specifications of the new stages.

f) Planning and technical aspects of the Solar Programme.

g) Training to be given to the RTI and installers and the competence of the RTI professionals and non professionals.

sector: Energy

name: Advisory service in the development of thermal solar energy at low temperatures

client: MINISTERIO INDUSTRIA, ENERGÍA Y MINERÍA, URUGUAY

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In collaboration with research institutions and firms from Greece, Germany, Denmark and France, sintering equipment using new technol-

ogy developed by the AICIA work group is being developed. The final objective of the project is the commercialization of this equipment.

sector: Materials and Nanotechnology

name: EFFIPRO Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process of Engineering Materials

client: EUROPEAN COMISSION

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The objective of the project is to design, deve-lop and validate a communication system for MANET (Ad-hoc Mobile Network) for auto-

nomous systems. The communication system should allow the dynamic routing among nodes with high physical mobility. The system will be demonstrated in experiments with a MANET

comprised of aerial, ground and marine unman-ned vehicles.

In 2013, the first project year, AICIA activities were focused on analyzing the specifications of the communication system and in the analysis of the MANET routing protocols in order to select the most suitable one for the project needs.

sector: ICT

name: SWARMCOMNew strategies for multi-vehicle communication

client: TTI NORTE S.L.

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sector: ICT

name: PLANET PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked objects

client: EUROPEAN COMISSION. VII FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (INFSO-ICT-257649)

The goal of the PLANET project is to design, develop and validate an integrated planning and maintenance platform that enables the

deployment, operation and maintenance of het-erogeneous networked Cooperating Objects in an efficient way. The main objective of the pro-ject emphasizes the capability of the platform to support deployment and operation strategies for large-scale systems composed of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Unmanned Ground Vehi-cles (UGVs) and Wireless Sensors and Actuators Networks (WSAN). The PLANET platform will be validated in two scenarios. The environmental and wildlife monitoring scenario application has been deployed in the Doñana Biological Reserve

(Spain) and the highly automated airfield scenar-io is being validated in the ATLAS UAS experi-mentation centre owned by FADA and located in the Spanish province of Jaen.

In the third year of the project, AICIA activities were focused on the experimentation and valida-tion of cooperation methods for: 1) efficient col-lection of data from Wireless Sensor Networks by using Unmanned Aerial Systems, and 2) de-velopment of schemes for the deployment and retrieval of ground robots using aerial robots. The techniques were experimented in June 2013 and September 2013 in field tests performed in the Doñana Biological Reserve.

Picture of the ground robot using in retrieval and transportation of ground robots using UAVs.

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sector: ICT

name: IoEInternet of Energy

client: AICIA

The objective of Internet of Energy (IoE) is to develop hardware, software and middleware for seamless, secure connectivity and inter-

operability achieved by connecting the Internet with the energy grids. The application of the IoE will be the infrastructure for the electric mobility. The IoE will implement the real time interface be-tween the power network/grid and the Internet. The grid will increasingly rely on smaller, locally distributed electricity generators and storage systems that are based on plug & play principles. Power networks devices and loads at the edge (such as electrical vehicles, buildings, electric devices and home appliances) can be charged or connected on any source of energy being solar, wind or hydroelectric.

The project will enable the creation of value add-ed services using both wired and wireless devices with access to the Internet by managing key top-

ics: such as demand response, modeling/simula-tion, energy efficiency and conservation, usage monitoring, real time energy balance and billing. The project considers vertical integration and horizontal cooperation among energy utilities, OEMs, and hardware/software/silicon providers.

AICIA_GIE is partner in this project. Our partici-pation is focused to the EV charging infrastructure and to the supported communications system. We have collaborated with the global architecture specification for the IoE system, in which, the in-terfaces between entities have been identified and developed. A wireless network to communi-cate the charging stations and the Local Charging Manager (LCM) has been developed. Furthermore, we are working to implement the communication between the LCM and the Remote Center. Using the necessary protocols, based on standards, will lead us to an interoperable system.

IoE Communications.

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National Projects

NATIONAL PROJECTS

This project is carried out in the framework of the INNPRONTA PERIGEO which is de-veloping a research platform for new space

technologies to be tested experimentally in un-manned aerial vehicles (UAV), and subsequently transferred to future space programs. The project aims to develop an infrastructure to investigate technologies that may be promising for space programs and are now not used because they are considered very risky and there is no way to test in normal environments.

PERIGEO focuses its research on solving tech-nological challenges of space missions in four scenarios: the observation of the Earth, the inter-

planetary flight in proximity to celestial bodies (asteroids, comets...), the atmospheric flight, and safe and accurate descent and landing for plan-etary exploration.

One of the main research areas of the project is the fault-tolerant flight control systems for space applications, to ensure a high level of perfor-mance and reliability. GRVC AICIA works on de-veloping systems for fault detection and recon-figuration in systems of multiple spacecrafts.

Deimos Space leads the PERIGEO consortium, also involving several companies and research centers, among which is AICIA.


name: FDIR-SPACE-UAV Fault detection and reconfiguration systems in space technology research on UAV platforms

client: DEIMOS SPACE

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NATIONAL PROJECTS

The present project is focused on developing new membrane materials that ensure high air separation performance, high stability

and lower operating cost compared to cryogenic distillation. The specific objectives of the project are: 1) conductivity optimization through multi-doping at moderate temperatures and stability, 2) perform electrical conductivity and oxygen permeation studies at laboratory, 3) expose the material at high temperature in gas mixture, 4) economic comparison of both, OTM membranes and cryogenic distillation, oxygen separation technologies for oxyfuel-coal power plants, 5) de-sign and construction of laboratory scale test, 6) study of the scale up parameters.

AICIA is involved to get the last three specific objectives. Simulation tools have been developed for economic evaluation. Two operation modes, 4-end and 3-end, were considered for OTM. A 500 MW oxyfuel-coal power plant with cryogenic dis-tillation system for oxygen supply was takes as reference case. Spanish anthracite coal was cho-sen as fuel. A laboratory scale test plant is being designed for different material evaluation. The experimental facility will be able to change the operating conditions: temperature and sweet gas composition. The project will be finished at No-vember 2014.

sector: Environment

name: AvantO2 IINew generation of advanced ion transport membranes applied to oxygen separation process for oxyfuel systems

client: INABENSA S.A. UNDER SUPPORT FROM CONSERJERÍA DE INNOVACIÓN CIENCIA Y EMPRESA (GOVERNMENT OF ANDALUSIA, SPAIN).

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NATIONAL PROJECTS

The main goal of this Project is the perfor-mance of feasibility analysis and develop-ment of a CO2 capture pilot plant processing

pulverized coal, using enriched air as oxidizer (partial oxicombustión) and combined with CO2 capture post-combustion techniques such as chemical regenerative absorption. This way a more efficient alternative from a technical and economical point of view is to be found when considering the retrofitting of an existing pulver-ized coal power plant incorporating CCS (Car-bon Capture and Storage)

To date an exhaustive laboratory screening plan to select the most suitable chemical absorbent is being carried out and an experimental pilot plant is being erected so as to test the selected ones in the preliminary laboratory phase. The pilot plant is located at the Engineering School of Seville fa-cilities, where it is integrated in the existing flue gas treatment unit. The pilot comprises the fol-lowing:

• the boiler operating as flue gas generator ca-pable of working under air mode, partial oxy mode or total oxycombustion mode,

• the oxidizer preparation devices

• and the CO2 capture system by means of a regenerative chemical absorption process.

As a result of the research program, it is foreseen to validate this process as the technological al-ternative for CCS to be used in the retrofitting of existing combustion installations and the opti-mized option for the new ones.

sector: Environment

name: COMPARAE Development of a CO2 capture process using regenerative chemical absorption under enriched-air combustion conditions

client: SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MINISTRY BY THE EXTRAORDINARY CALL INCLUDE IN THE SPANISH ECONOMICAL RECOVERY PLAN (PLAN E).

Experimental setup of the continuous absorption/stripping lab-scale unit.

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NATIONAL PROJECTS

The main objective of the MAVIT Project is to develop new products based on vitreous material with cementing properties through

a new manufacturing technology with high en-ergy efficiency and lower CO2 emissions over the current state-of-art. These new products may be used either as cement or additives in commercial cements, improving their mechanical and chemi-cal properties.

The research team of AICIA involved in the project works on the characterization of vitre-ous materials related to their thermogravimetric behavior, milling properties and on the possibil-

ity of including industrial by-products for their recycling. AICIA also collaborates in process development and manufacturing material units. Moreover, several tasks are involved in the devel-opment and assembly of a semi-industrial pilot plant and in the analysis of results produced in the tests in pilot plant. Actually, AICIA provides in this project its knowledge management, mod-eling and simulation skills, analytical laborato-ries and high qualified researchers in the fields of chemical engineering, industrial waste manage-ment, industrial process design and engineering and environmental management.

sector: Environment

name: MAVITHigh efficiency production of vitreous materials with cementing properties and low environmental impact

client: CEMENTOS PORTLAND VALDERRIVAS AND CO-FUNDED BY THE CENTRE FOR INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (CDTI) OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE INNTERCONECTA PROGRAM

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NATIONAL PROJECTS

The Project GETM is mainly focused on us-ing the news technologies to achieve an im-provement in the Tracking and Electronic

Management of goods in order to take a step towards an Intermodal Freight Transport. This System is composed by a subsystem to take data inside the containers, a subsystem to send the

info from the inside of the container to the out-side without wires or holes, a wireless network based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard, a gateway with GPS and a subsystem of info in order to present the containers info based on several profiles. This is a desired product for all of the elements of the logistic chain (exporter, port authorities…)

sector: ICT

name: GETM Electronic Management and Tracking of Freight

client: AGENCIA DE OBRA PÚBLICA DE LA JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA. CONSEJERÍA DE FOMENTO Y VIVIENDA.

GETM System.

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NATIONAL PROJECTS

sector: ICT

name: NTSICANew Technologies for Intelligent Higway Signage

client: BUILDING AND HOUSING COUNSELING

The main objective of the NTSICA project is the use of new information and communica-tion technologies “TICs”, applied to the de-

velopment of smart signage system, with the end aim of improving higway safety.

The main technologies to integrate signaling system are:

1. Sensors: for the knowledge to environment in real time, and the later action accordingly.

2. Energy Harvesting: novel systems for gen-eration, storage and control to committed environmental energy.

3. WSN: Wireless Sensor Network, bringing autonomy along with energy self-sufficiency

4. Variable LED Signage: improving the effi-ciency of current consumption, and provid-ing additional functionality.

AICIA works as project leader, holding both the bulk of developments such as the work of man-agement an d justification of the milestones and deliverables same.

New TICs for Signage.

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R&D Engineering Projects

R&D ENGINEERING PROJECTS


name: MACVAH Command and Control System for Multiple Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

client: BOEING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY EUROPE (BR&TE) IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CDTI SPANISH INNPRONTA PROGRAM

This Project is carried out in the framework of the INNPRONTA ADAM, on Mobility Auto-mation, led by Boeing Research and Technol-

ogy Europe. Flight intent refers to the informa-tion which describes the trajectory to be flown by an aircraft considering the operational context in which the flight takes place and the user prefer-ences to be fulfilled along the whole trajectory. In previous work, the set of rules which ensures the generation of valid instances of flight intent was structured as a formal language, the Flight Intent Description Language (FIDL). The work in this

project of GRVC AICIA extends these concepts to a higher level of abstraction, the mission level. In this period, the architecture and tools used to generate flight intent from the mission intent have been developed and tested. The planner designed in the previous period has been fur-ther developed to include geometric reasoning and optimization. On the other hand, specialized planners for surveillance and 3D map generation missions with aerial vehicles have been designed and developed.

Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the Ground Control Station (GCS) during the execution of a mission close to the Engineering School building. The mission was designed and planned with the multi-layered architecture developed in this period.

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name: ROBMANIntelligent robotic system for handling large aircraft structures

client: MC2 AND EADS-CASA (AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE)

The ROBMAN project aims to design and de-velop an automated lifting system suspend-ed from an overhead crane, which will allow

handling and transport of various large compo-nents of the aircraft.

AICIA participation in the project is focused on the design and development of the control algo-rithms, static and dynamic study of all the exist-ing parameters and the modeling and simulation of a system for the automation of the manipula-tion and transportation of aircraft structure parts. This year AICIA has developed control system simulation and manipulation of 3D parts.

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name: ROBINTER Robots for interior inspection of aeronautical structures

client: APPLUS AND EADS-CASA (AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE)

The ROBINTER project aims to design and develop a robotic system that can move au-tonomously or teleoperated, developing in-

spection work, primarily visual, in tight spaces. This task is mainly to avoid human presence in these areas due to the high risk involved for both individuals and the airframe.

AICIA participation in the project is the study, modeling, simulation and development of a con-trol system that allows the robot to move correct-ly inside various aircraft structures. Also AICIA participates in the study and development of path planning algorithms for obstacle avoidance during movement of the robot. The work also in-cludes the design of the human-machine inter-face (HMI) for the operator to control the robot.

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name: REFLEXAircraft flexible riveting robot

client: INASOR AND EADS-CASA (AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE)

The project Aircraft flexible riveting robot aims to design and develop a system to automati-cally drilling, riveting and sealing with the re-

quired precision in various sections of the fuselage of aircraft, as well as the elements necessary to dis-place the system over the surface of the fuselage.

AICIA participation in the project is focused on the design and development of the control sys-tem to position the robot on the airframe, once positioned to establish the drilling points by rec-ognizing the reference marks and finally the posi-tioning of the drill to work on those points.

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name: Circuit Breaker automation for airplanes

client: EADS-CASA (AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE)

This project is focused on the automatic op-eration of the circuit breakers that power the airplane primary systems. These devices are

operated frequently during the functional tests that verify the integrity and functionality of the airplane subsystems. In 2013 two different solu-tions have been designed for the A400M trans-portation aircraft and the development of both of them has started. The first one is a cartesian ver-tical robot while the second is a vertical 3-arms SCARA robot.

Robotic manipulator for A400M circuit breakers.

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name: ATLANTIDA-SA Leading Technologies Applied to Unmanned Aircraft for Research and Development in ATM

client: BOEING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY EUROPE (BR&TE ) – PROYECTO CENIT

In the last years, the air traffic has been growing, and it will keep growing during the next years. On the other side, the current Air Traffic Man-

agement (ATM) system, based on operational concepts devised for nowadays out-to-date tech-nologies, is about to reach its capacity limits, so that it will become unable to cope with the de-mands forseen for the near future.

From the operational point of view, the future ATM system will require a higher level of auto-mation. The ATLANTIDA project has the basic objective of developing new technologies lead-ing to such automation level, and their applica-tion to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

AICIA´s contribution to this project is focused on the development of algorithms for conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) among aircraft in the termianl area (with convergent traffic), in-cluding the problems of sequencing (arriving sequence of aircraft) and scheduling (arrival on time), along with the definition of a set of metrics to evaluate their performance. These algorithms are analyzed in several scenarios, with different levels of complexity, characterized by a different number of entry points in the terminal area, and by a large number of aircraft (from 30 to 40).

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name: FSP201 Future Test System, 2020

client: EADS-CASA – PROYECTO FEDER INNTERCONECTAAERIAM TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Y EADS CONSTRUCCIONES AERONÁUTICAS, S.A.MDU- AIRBUS MILITARY

The Project FSP20 (Future Test System 2020) undertakes the research and development of new technologies in the area of aircraft

ground test systems with the objective of creat-ing the basis for the future test systems in the ho-rizon of the year 2020.

AICIA´s participation in this project deals with different tasks and areas of activity:

• AICIA contributes on the analysis and defi-nition of an integral architecture solution, named Aircraft Information System (AIS). This solution must determine among other issues the following: equipment that must be part of the integral architecture, interfaces of the AIS system with the other aircraft systems, and interface of the AIS system with the test-ing system of the final assembly line. Moreo-ver, the high-level requirements of the AIS system must be defined as well.

• On board test software with capability to be controlled by the test system. The main objec-tive is the research of a solution for the aircraft computer families which are available nowa-days and that will be available in the future for the development of operational software, allowing the control of the test from the test system, taking into account that the features of this software must comply with the require-ments of any airborne software (this is, compli-ance with DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certifica-tion).

• Industrial test software with capability to be controlled by the test system. The main objec-tive is the research of a solution for the aircraft computer families which are available nowa-days and that will be available in the future for the development of operational software, al-

Early concept for a miniatuzed test bench.

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name: FSP202 Future Test System, 2020

client: EADS-CASA – PROYECTO FEDER INNTERCONECTAAERIAM TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Y EADS CONSTRUCCIONES AERONÁUTICAS, S.A.MDU- AIRBUS MILITARY

lowing the control of the test from the test sys-tem, taking into account that the features of this software will not be on board the aircraft during normal operation, therefore the re-quirements will be lower than those described in DO-178.

• Miniaturization of the test benches on Airbus facilities. To this aim an exhaustive study of I&C technologies have been done, including wireless and wired networks. Afterwards, dif-ferent architecture proposals have been pre-sented, and currently AICIA is working jointly with MDU and AIRBUS to find and develop the most appropriate solution.

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name: SINTONIA Unmanned Systems Oriented to Minimum Environmental Impact

client: AERTEC INGENIERÍA Y DESARROLLOS, S.L.U. – PROYECTO CENIT

The SINTONIA project has the main objec-tive of developing new technologies leading to the creation of advanced components and

platforms to be applied in the future unmanned air surveillance systems (UAVs) with minimum environmental impact.

AICIA´s contribution to this project is focused on the development of navigation systems that allow the optimization of the energetic efficiency of the UAV. In particular the following two tasks are undertaken: (1) development of efficient tra-jectory generation techniques for UAV naviga-

tion, and (2) development of robust guidance techniques for UAV navigation.

The particular objectives are the development of the capacity to autonomously generate efficient trajectories from the energetic point of view, and the development of guidance techniques that guarantee the UAV stability under possible un-certainties during the navigation. This robust-ness is important because the UAVs must operate autonomously and there is not a pilot on board to solve unexpected conflicts during the flight.

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name: FUTURASSY Robotics for Assembly of Structural Composites in Aerospace Industry

client: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SUPPORTED BY CORPORACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA ANDALUZA (CTA) AND THE PARTICIPATION OF RESEARCH CENTERS, INCLUDING AICIA

The objective of the Futurassy project is the ap-plication of robotic systems in manufacturing and assembly lines of carbon fiber compo-

nents in the aerospace industry. AICIA partici-pates in the "Airbus Standard Robotic Cells," con-sisting of the development of standard solutions for process automation of aircraft assembly using industrial robots, which should have low imple-mentation cost, and be flexible, multi-functional, autonomous and efficient. In this line anthropo-

morphic robots and peripheral technologies are being used for drilling and countersinking of dif-ferent types of composite materials.

AICIA participation focuses on modeling and calibration of industrial robots using different methods to increase the precision of the position-ing of the robot tool when stresses are applied, which is required for drilling and countersink-ing of structural aircraft parts. AICIA is also in charge of the robot controller adaptation.

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name: DEPLA Development of Light Protections for Aviation

The DEPLA project is integrated in the strat-egy of the Military Transport Division to pro-vide itself with the necessary technologies

for manufacturing low energy armoured or im-pact protection elements that are lighter than the actual ones. Within this project, AICIA´s tasks are framed in three work packages:

• Material characterization

• Design and manufacture of test rig

• Technical assistance and management of the ballistic tests and of ice

Test rig for carrying out impact tests on curved panels.

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name: ECLIPSE Composites and Lightweight Material Structures for easy assembly processes

This project is led by Airbus Military and aims to research composite structures for new air-craft assembly processes. AICIA acts as OPI

of Airbus Military and TEDCOM, Projects Part-ners, developing the following activities:

a) Materials for high temperature service, iden-tifying the materials needed and establish-ing a plan to test them, conducting the tests and analyzing results.

b) New concepts of stiffened joints, analyzing by means of analytical and numerical meth-ods new joints for high performances.

c) Design and operation of the curved panel structural test under distributed pressure.

Model of structural tests on curved panel.

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name: ODISEO Development and Research in Electrical Systems

client: MILITARTECNOLOGIE, DIENST UND UBERWACHUNG, S.A. AND EADS CONSTRUCCIONES AERONÁUTICAS, S.A.

AICIA participates in Project’s activity 4 ti-tled: "Development of Electrical Testing." The objective of this activity is to research

new technologies and functional electrical wiring testing and aeronautical systems. In this context, AICIA is leading the following task:

1. Study and survey of common airborne sys-tems and equipment buses in the avionics racks and consoles targeted in the develop-ment of the integrated electrical and func-tional test system.

2. Study and survey of buses present in the most common electrical wiring used on con-soles and racks in order to set the electrical system specifications and developing func-tional test equipment.

3. Development of the software tools required to automatically generate electrical test scripts from the circuit netlist and schemat-ic. The electrical circuit must be described and analyzed to design a proper electrical test. The target of this task is to automate as much of the procedure as possible.

4. Tarea consistente en la especificación y dise-ño del utillaje necesario para el conexionado de los equipos bajo prueba al banco de prue-bas y de este al sistema integrado de pruebas eléctricas y funcionales. Task involving the specification and design of the tooling nec-essary for the connection of the equipment under test to the test bench and the connec-tion between it and the integrated electrical and functional test system.

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name: ADAM Development of Automation for Autonomous Mobility

client: INDRA SISTEMAS S.A. Y BOEING RESEARCH & TECNOLOGY EUROPE S.L.U.

The Main objective of ADAM Project is to in-crease the autonomous capabilitites of the operating process of the transport using ad-

vanced navigation technologies, guidance, con-trol, communications, surveillance and automa-tion over the base architectures and advanced technologies for autonomous mobile systems. This general objective will be developed concur-rently in applications of autonomous air, land and sea platforms.

AICIA is participating in several tasks shared over two subcontractors. These tasks, are briefly described below:

1. AICIA collaborates in the topic of research High Integrity Navigation for light UAS to-gether with INDRA Sistemas S.A. The work packages that have been undertaken have the objective of evaluating the technical vi-ability of an experimental laboratory naviga-tion system for unmanned aerial systems us-ing new electronic technologies.

2. On the other hand, AICIA collaborates with Boeing Research & Technology Europe

(BR&TE) supporting electronic HW activi-ties for the design and development of their experimental flying platforms included in this project.

First experimental HW prototype.

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sector: Energy

name: PREXTOR Pressure exchangers

client: PREXTOR SYSTEMS S.L.

The subject of this project is large scale energy storage using compressed air as energy me-dium. Energy storage is a necessity that has

become more evident with the growth of energy generation through alternative sources, basically wind energy. Given that storing energy by rever-sible pumping requires a high level of inversion and has great environmental impact, alternative

methods have been studied for decades, such as storage using molten salts, batteries (chemi-cal storage) or compressed air (Compressed Air Energy Storage, CAES). AICIAs contribution seeks to introduce relevant improvements to in-crease the efficiency of existing CAES technolo-gies and eliminate the necessity of burning fossil fuels before passing the turbine.

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sector: Energy/ICT

name: CHORUS1 Advanced System for integral energy management in high consumer installations

client: ISOTROL, FEDER-Interconecta Programme

Chorus will create an energy control system aimed at high consumers of electricity in or-der to reduce costs, much in demand in the

current market. To this end, a centralized control system will be designed that integrates differ-ent energy sources that can feed an installation –from cogeneration or photovoltaic to the more conventional supply– and storage batteries, and it will study which is the most fitting combination to achieve maximum performance.

The objective of this project is the design and vali-dation of a system that allows for the technical and economic optimization of local generation, stor-age and consumption in high energy consumer installations (up to 1 Mwh) in the industrial sector

and services (hospitals, hotels and other centres that can have high consumption).

The project proposes the design and develop-ment of a system capable of generation manage-ment, storage and consumption of energy from different sources and of various types both at thermal and electrical level, orientated at a build-ing in high consumer installations, using opti-mization of microgeneration and consumption algorithms.

CHORUS deals with certain specific objectives of great interest to the renewable energy storage and cogeneration sector. It establishes as its basic aim total thermal and electrical management for total or partial self-consumption aimed at an industrial firm.

Subsystems of considered optimization model.

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Elements to be considered in the energy model are: (i) cogeneration that allows for better energy exploitation by the combination of thermal and electric exploitation, and by close modulation of production; (ii) the combination of the cogen-eration systems with other strategies such as temporal accumulation of the energy produced: electric and thermal; (iii) the modulation of the cogeneration equipment promoting "apparent" electrical demand in the battery charging pro-cess or thermal accumulation and "apparent" de-crease in demand in the discharge process; (iv) the consideration of electricity distribution man-agement in the grid for isolated networks; and (v) consumption elements should be considered as active subjects on which it is possible to affect their consumption.

In order to resolve the given objective and taking into account the elements that make up the en-ergy model, families of quantitative models are developed that adapt the specific characteristics of the energy model and allow the identification of the optimum solution associated to determin-ing the best configuration in almost real time terms (response time in the order of seconds) that incorporates the instantaneous situation of variables such as electricity demand, thermal de-

mand, electricity grid availability, tariff period, battery charge level, etc. Later, the resolution of the family of models is carried out by means of optimization algorithms based on artificial intel-ligence elements and soft computing, amongst which stand out: (i) genetic algorithms, (ii) tabu search, (iii) ant colony based algorithms, (iv) opti-mization algorithms based on viral systems, and (v) other metaheuristics that could be defined ad hoc.

The objective of the system is to integrate and optimize local production, storage and consump-tion, in such a way as to reduce, on the whole, the economic variables to be defined, amongst which are: the return of the investment in respect to each of the components or the minimization of the operating costs. The consideration of multi-criteria solutions that simultaneously incorpo-rate various objectives will be evaluated.

The integration engineering and assembly of the various elements will be carried out at a pi-lot installation in the Higher Engineering School of Seville University, where the results expected in the developments in the shape of control sys-tems, optimization algorithms, and integrated operation of the generation elements, storage and consumption will be validated.

sector: Energy/ICT

name: CHORUS2 Advanced System for integral energy management in high consumer installations

client: ISOTROL, FEDER-Interconecta Programme

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sector: Energy/ Transport and Infrastructures

name: FERROSMARTGRID1 Development of the first intelligent network for energy management in the railway sector

client: FEDER-Interconecta Programme

The aim in this project is to develop an ex-perimental demonstrator for the first smart railway network, allowing an optimal mana-

gement of the system’s electric energy and the interoperability between different urban and interurban systems. This will be achieved thanks to electric integration by means of intelligent no-des within a system that interacts with users in the railway stations environment.

This infrastructure is composed by two comple-mentary systems:

• Power electric system in charge of the trans-portation and the storage of the generated electric energy, as well as its distribution over the network of the railway station.

• Communications system, which is able to provide the necessary intelligence to reach an adequate management of the energy, with capacity to operate over power electric system and giving support to the interface towards external network, where Operating System, Ancillary Services System and Bi-lling System reside.

The main objective is the development of the communications systems related to the Smart Grid and also to the electric vehicles and their charging systems in relation to other system en-tities (such as DSO, Ancillary System or Billing System). Thus, in the frame of this project, we are working to the specification of these interfaces.

Among the main objectives considered in this project are the development, implementation

and operational testing of a route planning al-gorithm for electric vehicles. This algorithm is similar to any of the commercially available and implemented in GPS devices, operating from a network graph, an origin node and a destination node. However, the algorithm developed here is specially designed for electric vehicles, in which the power consumption and battery power are key factors. In fact, two variants of the route op-timization algorithm, similar but with different objectives, are:

• One in which the routes are designed to mi-nimize energy consumption

• Other where routes are designed to maximi-ze battery charge

This first version of the algorithm (or both algo-rithms) is based on an urban or metropolitan area,

The route is calculated under the assumption of minimum energy consumption.

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sector: Energy/ Transport and Infrastructures

name: FERROSMARTGRID2 Development of the first intelligent network for energy management in the railway sector

client: FEDER-Interconecta Programme

so there are a number of mobility characteristics that are specific to this type of environment, and need not be provided for a suburban environment. Thus, the algorithm incorporates two aspects of urban mobility that would be equally applicable

to the calculation of routes for conventional vehi-cles, but are particularly important in an innovati-ve algorithm like this: the existence of forbidden turns at nodes and the existence of controlled tra-ffic lights (phase synchronization) at nodes.

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sector: Energy

name: Task developed by the group of the University of Seville in the Reliable proyect

The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Seville is working in the development of new methods for predicting

the fatigue life in metallic materials since the 80s. During this time various models for different com-ponents and fatigue conditions have developed: fatigue at notches, fretting fatigue, fatigue under random loading, fatigue of micro components, mi-cro-mechanical fatigue models, etc. Based on the acquired experience, the Mechanical Engineering

Group of the University of Seville is developing the following task within the project Reliable:

Development and integration in the Kratos® soft-ware (a finite element code) and Matlab® a plat-form for predicting the fatigue crack initiation under fluctuating loads. The amplitude of these loads can be, constant, variable, and also the na-ture of stress field developed by these loads can be proportional or non-proportional. Initially, all behavior laws are assumed to be linear.

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sector: Energy

name: THESTOS Development of storage systems for direct steam generation in the framework of activities in the FEDER Innterconecta programme

In previous phases, in this research Project, the fatigue behavior of the element of the active re-inforcement steel (wires, strands and tendons)

typical of any cable-stayed concrete structure was studied. For this purpose various types of fatigue tests were executed. Subsequently these structural elements were validated, a scale proto-type has been built. This prototype has been in-strumented with strain gages (which were placed

both concrete and reinforcement steel) and dis-placement transducers. The final objective is the mechanical validation of the model with the pro-totype, which is going to be under loading and unloading cycles. After postprocessing of signals of all sensors, stress and strain of the structure will be evaluate, so then, the mechanical valida-tion of model will be discussed.

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sector: Energy

name: Collaboration in the mechanical aspects of the project "Design, development, construction and tests of a Bioethanol Processor System (BPS) for the AIP Plant of the S-80 submarines

During this period, the skid of the SPB has been re-designed to fit the dynamics re-quirements after some changes made in

several major equipments and their supports. This re-design has led to a redistribution of spaces and elements inside it. There has been a new finite element model of it and a preliminary

strength analysis. A detailed study has been performed on the structure and components of another equipment, SAP, in order to pass vibra-tion, shock and vibration transmitted tests. On the other hand, experimental tests have been conducted on various components to verify their resistance to these tests.

Vibration test of a component of SAP.

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sector: Energy

name: COMPOSOL System of heating and temperature hold for cylindric-parabolic mirrors with heat carrier fluid

client: AKO ELECTROMECÁNICA S.A.L. (FEDER-INNTERCONECTA)

This Project, led by ABENGOA, started in 2012. The molten salt as heat carrier fluid will bring advantages regarding, cost, environmental

impact and thermodinamic efficiency of Rankine cycle. The major drawback is that to avoid solidi-fication of the fluid it must be kept above 265 ºC at day or night. Under this Project an experimen-tal solar thermal power plant with molten salt as heat carrier fluid is being developped, being the task of AICIA to design and implement the heat-ing system of the fluid in an efficient way. Dur-ing 2013 AICIA has performed several feasibility studies with different heating technologies, test-ing successfully the impedance system in a solar collector of 15 m in length in Solúcar.

Oil cylindric-parabolic collector.

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sector: Energy

name: E3MEL Advance solutions of energy and economic efficiency in the electrical market.

client: The project lasts two and a half years with a budget of 2,5 million euros. This project is integrated into FEDER-INNTERCONCTA program (2011). Co-workers institutions Sadiel, Epresa, Adevice, Isotrol and Isoin

E3MEL Project aims at developing new so-lutions of energy efficiency and electrical security supply based on new data acquisi-

tion associated to power quality measurements. Electrical engineering group develops next tasks:

• Identification of those elements of the distri-bution system that cause any of the electrical disturbances recorded by E3MEL. The most common and extended ways of minimizing such event have been also analyzed.

• Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a monitoring system for the electrical circuit that contains several appliances which can switched on and off independently, by a non-

intrusive method. It has been reported the different solutions proposed in the special-ized literature, the attention focused on resi-dential consumers.

• Since E3MEL is mainly characterized by re-cording harmonics, a thorough study of the existing techniques looking for identifying source of harmonics has been carried out.

• A simulation tool has been developed to ana-lyze the state of the low voltage network, from consumers and/or distributed generators to the secondary distribution transformer by using the different measurements recorded by E3MEL.

Comparative analysis of power loses at a Low Voltage Network for different profiles of balanced and unbalance loads and/or harmonic sources.

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sector: Energy

name: Technical and economic feasibility of the reac-tive power optimal control of wind farms to minimize power losses.

client: EDP-Renovables

This Project aims at assessing the saving in pow-er losses resulting from an optimal control of voltages at a 40-MW wind park. This optimal

control consists of using all the reactive available sources: on-line tap changers of the transformer at the substation of the wind farm, shunt capacitors at

the substation and/or wind turbines, fixed-tap posi-tions of the wind turbine transformers, and reactive power supplied or absorbed by doubled-fed induc-tion generators. This project has proved the opera-tional improvement by using the new proposed so-lution, as well as the possibility of on-line execution.

Power Losses for different production profiles.

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sector: Energy

name: UNBALANCE DISTRIBUTION Scientific Support for Unbalanced Distribution Network Applications.

client: SIEMENS

The work is focused on the following ap-plications for unbalanced distribution net-works: Distribution System State Estimation

(DSSE), Bad data detection for DSSE, and Var/voltage control for distribution networks. Electri-cal engineering group is committed to carry out the following activities:

• Analysis and evaluation of algorithms cur-rently used by SIEMENS.

• Suggestions to enhance those algorithms when margin for improvement is identified.

• Leading role in preparing high-level techni-cal publications related to the above topics, according to the innovation level and results obtained.

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sector: Energy

name: PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID INTEGRATION

client: ABENGOA SOLAR NT

This project addresses the definition, valuation and study of the suitability of support servic-es that can be provided by photovoltaic gen-

erators to the electric power system.

The continuous evolution of distributed gen-erator systems and the current trend to renew-able energy introduce in the electrical system new particularities regarding classic generating plants that must be studied in detail.

In particular, some of services usually provided by big classical generators as voltage control

and frequency regulation should be given, in a scenario with high-penetration of distributed generation, by these above-mentioned photo-voltaic generators. This fact presents several particularities that have to be studied due to the own nature of this technology. Therefore, the aim of this project is to assess the possible needs in order to this technology were able to provide some of the support services to the elec-trical network, as well as performing an econom-ic valuation.

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sector: Energy

name: ELECTRICITY MARKET SIMULATOR Development of an international electricity market simulator with market splitting and complex bids

client: ISOTROL

In this project, a stand-alone application has been developed for the optimal clearing of an international electricity market with any num-

ber of sell and purchase agents and any num-ber of interconnected countries with specified bidirectional equivalent transmission capacity. The project, commissioned by ISOTROL and with ENDESA as end-user, will enable the latter to model bidding strategies and their effects in terms of prices and income taking opportunity of the options of complex bidding available at the foreseen integrated european electricity market.

The optimization module is based on the maximi-zation of the welfare for the ensemble of participat-ing agents (which is the objective of the current central European market). The module is the most general possible given the current market integra-tion stage since it allows the incorporation of com-plex bids that are inexistent in the central Euro-pean market (e.g. minimum income conditions in OMEI) but also block offers not yet incorporated by OMEI. The performance of the developed mod-ule has been tested with historic official results disclosed by OMEI. The quality of the results have been deemed as optimal by the client.

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sector: Energy

name: Development of a computer tool to obtain external equivalents for electromagnetic transient studies

client: RED ELÉCTRICA DE ESPAÑA (REE)

T his project is the continuation and expan-sion of a previous project between AICIA and REE and that resulted in an innovative

tool that improves the quality of the results and reduces the time of development of transient electromagnetic studies in the Spanish transmis-sion network. This tool is currently being used by the network studies Department of REE.

In this second phase was trying to complete this development with the addition of the most ap-propriate models for isolated cables, loads and transformers.

Also, one of the fundamental objectives of this project is to make various validation studies with real networks, which incorporate the new devel-oped models (cables, transformers and loads), checking its influence on the transient electro-magnetic analysis.

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sector: Energy

name: MST CFD Analysis of the design of an accumulation tank in a thermo-solar plant

client: ABEINSA EPC

The aim of the work is to analyse with CFD techniques various designs of a salt accu-mulation tank in a solar thermal plant. As-

pects such as the numeric model used, number of injectors, location and outlet angle of impul-

sion in the interior of the tank, stratification level and evolution of the fields of temperature in the transients have been studied whilst maintain-ing the volume of accumulation and the storage method.

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sector: Energy

name: AIRE Variable capacity efficient air-conditioning system for electric buses

client: HISPACOLD, INDITER, PROGRAMA FEDER-INNTERCONECTA, MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACIÓN.

The main objective of the project is to develop a range of air conditioning systems for 100% electric traction buses. The air conditioning

systems represent 50% of electrical consumption in these vehicles, so that it is vital, on one hand, to dispose of an efficient A/C system that allows above 4 performances to be obtained in order to improve vehicle autonomy and, equally, reduce the cost of acquisition. On the other hand, it is necessary to optimize the skin of the bus in order to reduce the thermal load to be tackled within the bus and, thus reduce the power of the air con-ditioning installed.

In this work, the climatic zones representative at a European level have been defined and a sensitiv-ity analysis of the skin of the bus has been carried out in these different climatic zones in order to define certain minimum thermal characteristics of the skin of the bus for each of these zones to serve as a design guideline for manufacturers and operators of these vehicles. The behaviour of dif-ferent conditioning systems has been simulated (taking into account the performance such as heat pump, partial load, and energy accumulation with PCMS, etc.) in order to analyse the type of equip-ment to be considered in developing the range.

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sector: Energy

name: Analysis of ventilation and distribution of air in metro carriages

client: HISPACOLD INTERNACIONAL, S.A.

The aim of the project is to analyse the ven-tilation system of a metro carriage (line 12, Mexican metro) using Computational Fluid-

dynamics (CFD) techniques. Various simula-tions have been carried out with different levels of ventilation, open/close combinations of doors and windows and different levels of occupation. The range of temperatures and of speeds has

been obtained in each case, ensuring that pa-rameters such as the maximum speed in the oc-cupation plane or the average air temperature inside the carriages comply with the UNE 14.750 Standard. Solutions have been proposed to im-prove air distribution inside metro carriages and reduce the maximum speeds in the occupa-tion planes.

Distribution of temperature inside a metro carriage with high occupancy.

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sector: Energy

name: CE3 COMPLEMENTS

client: CÁTEDRA E3

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through IDAE, adjudicated to a consortium, led by APPLUS+ with the notable participa-

tion of AICIA, the elaboration of a Simplified Procedure for Energy Certification in Buildings in Existence. The CE3 programme is the result of work by the Consortium. APPLUS+ has financed a University Research Chair on Energy Efficien-cy in Buildings, the E3 Chair, within which have been developed, amongst other activities, the CE3 Complements by support programmes for the simplified procedures of the Energy Certifi-

cation in Buildings in Existence CE3. The CE3 Complement programmes are supported by the results obtained by CE3 and make calculations of interest for the community of certification users. The complements developed in 2012 are:

• Complements Manager

• Correction of savings from billing data

• Evaluation of costs of a specific rehabilita-tion intervention

• Economic analysis

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sector: Energy

name: MOPICEMethodology and predictive modelling of energy consumption indicators for verification of savings in energy services firms.

client: CEPSA, ANDALUCIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (CTA) AND INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF ANDALUCIA (IDEA)

The industrial sector presents a growing de-mand for investments in energy efficiency optimization projects. In general, this type

of project requires large investments but brings both important economic and energy savings. Thus, measurement and verification (M&V) of these savings is of vital importance to guarantee the returns of the investments carried out.

The project objective is the development of a methodology that allows for the quantification of the savings derived from energy efficiency improvement projects in cogeneration plants.

To this end, the application of data mining tech-niques is proposed to determine predictive mod-els that offer reliability to the procedure of meas-uring and verifying savings as they are based on data obtained by monitoring campaigns carried out in situ.

An M&V of savings procedure has been devel-oped based on the obtained models that will allow for the verification of savings after the implanta-tion of future savings and energy efficiency pro-jects at this and other cogenaration plants.

Measurement and verification of savings.

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sector: Energy

name: Simulation of the behaviour of a reformer for hydrogen production

client: ABENGOA HIDRÓGENO

The aim of the project is to analyse the behav-iour of the complete system of fuel process-ing for hydrogen production, with special

emphasis on the study of the reformer and poste-rior stages of purification. Simulation tools based on CFD techniques have been developed that

permit the velocity fields, concentrations and temperature in different zones of the reformer to be quantified. As a result of the simulation work, modifications to the initial design have been pro-posed with the aim of improving equipment per-formance.

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sector: Energy

name: BIOPOLIM-AButadiene production from Ethanol

client: PROGRAMA FEDER INNTERCONECTA 2013. ABENGOA BIOENERGÍA NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS

This project aims to develop different tasks to research on the production of bioproducts, whose results will be incorporated into a

strategic industrial research project presented in FEDER INTERCONECTA program "Production of advanced biopolymers from waste" (Biopolim-A) which is led by Abengoa Bioenergy New Tech-nologies. In this project AICIA is involved in five sub-tasks with the following objectives:

1) Experimental evaluation at pilot scale of the catalytic synthesis of heavy alcohol

2) Tests about purification and separation of al-cohols

3) Integrating tests with the synthesis and sep-aration-purification units

4) Development of conceptual process engi-neering

5) Techno-economic evaluation of the process integrating data from experimental phases

Pilot plant for catalytic synthesis of bioproducts.

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sector: Energy

name: BIOBasic and Detailed Engineering of a Hydrogen Fueling Station

client: ABENGOA HIDRÓGENO

This project develops the basic and detailed engineering of a plant that produces 200 kg per day of hydrogen from ethanol. The pro-

duced hydrogen must have the degree of purity required by a PEM fuel cell. The designed facil-ity consists of the following main units: water and ethanol vaporizers, an ethanol steam reformer, a

combustion chamber, a WGS reactor and a PSA unit for hydrogen purification. A heat-exchanger network to recover process energy was designed to minimize liquid ethanol consumption in the combustion chamber that provides the energy required by the catalytic reformer.

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sector: Energy

name: SUNBIOMASSAssistance in the design and development of a Pilot Biomass Gasification Plant with performance optimization combined with a solar energy collector system.

client: TRIVINCO INTERNATIONAL SL

AICIA gave technical support for the re-de-sign and operation of a 100 kWe fluidized-bed gasification pilot plant located in Los

Angeles (Chile). The support included two vis-

its to the plant where AICIA collaborated in the measurements campaigns. AICIA also analyzed the experimental data and modelled the system for its optimization.

Gasification pilot plant in Los Angeles (Chile).

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sector: Energy

name: Conceptual analysis of hybrid renewable systems based on biomass and solar energy

client: CTAER

The work being developed during 2013-14 is the second phase of a project with the overall ob-jective of constructing a demonstration plant

to produce electricity based on hybrid renewable energy technologies using solar and biomass. In the previous phase of the project (2012-13) a flu-idized bed biomass (olive pruning) gasifier was selected as a system to support the solar cycle. The gas from the gasifier is burnt in a gas boiler. The GIPQE works on modelling and experimen-

tal characterization of the fluidized bed gasifier. The following tasks are being developed: (i) a de-tailed model tool for the simulation of a fluidized bed gasifier processing olive pruning. (ii) Con-tinuous gasification tests for the characterization of olive pruning in a 1 kg/h bench scale fluidized bed; (iii) dedicated tests for determination of ki-netics data for reforming of gas and char as well as the tendency to agglomeration

Experimental plant in Tabernas (Almería).

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sector: Energy

name: BIO-ANDALUSExperimental development of transformation processes from lignocellulosic biomass and other carbon sources in various bioproducts in Sustainable Andalusia

client: PROGRAMA FEDER INNTERCONECTA 2011-1060. ABENGOA BIOENERGÍA NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS

This project aims to develop different tasks to research on production of aviation fuels and bioproducts, whose results will be incorpo-

rated into a strategic industrial research project presented in FEDER INTERCONECTA Program "Development of experimental transformation processes involving lignocellulosic biomass and other carbon sources, in various bioproducts in Sustainable Andalusia " Bio-Andalus ".

In this project AICIA is involved in nine sub-tasks with the following objectives:

1) Identify possible synthesis routes to produce aviation biofuel from ethanol, as well as oth-ers products involved in the transformation.

2) Experimental evaluation at pilot scale of the catalytic synthesis of butanol.

3) Develop the conceptual engineering for a demonstration BuOH synthesis plant

4) Experimental evaluation to optimize the op-erating conditions at laboratory / pilot scales of the processes involved in the transforma-tion of butanol to jet fuel.

5) Selection of the most promising technologi-cal routes.

6) Design of the catalytic process for conver-sion of butanol to jet fuel

7) Development of models which allow the scal-ing of the process by integrating the experi-mental information.

8) Work out mass and energy balances for fu-ture scaled processes

9) Techno-economic evaluation of the process.

Laboratory facility for biofuel synthesis.

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name: DESAFIO Development of Intelligent Forward Fuselage Sections for military transport operations.

client: CTAER

This project, led by Airbus Military, has the challenge of studying sections of fuselage placed in the frontal part of the aircraft, in

order to acquire the necessary knowledge to ap-ply the technology of composite materials to re-place the use of metals. The general objective is to achieve weight reduction of airframes, thereby minimizing fuel consumption during operation of the aircraft.

The results and conclusions obtained in this project will be of great importance and of imme-diate application in the future development of transport aircraft. AICIA acts in this Project as

OPI of the companies: Airbus Military, Ghenova, TEAMS and TEDCOM, partners of the Project. The activities performed by AICIA fall into the following tasks:

a) Development of multifunctional composites

b) Investigation on the strain evolution of the forward fuselage

c) Design and operation of structural test dem-onstrator

d) Fuselage impact tests on specimens manu-factured with thermoplastic nanomaterials

Model of rig test demonstrator.

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name: SEAMAR Andalusian Eolic solutions for the sea

Project led by ACCIONA in which AICIA acts as OPI. AICIA is involved in the study of the influence of water immersion on mechani-

cal properties of different types of material. Both metallic materials (with different treatments) as composites (with different types of reinforce-ment) are tested. In the case of composite ma-terials, the influence of water absorption on the rheological properties of the resin is a matter of particular interest in the study.

Other tasks that are being carried out are related to numerical modeling. As an example, the fig-ure shows a model of the detail of the piece of concrete that is used to join the metal shaft to the foundation. The geometry of the foundation is a concrete block with an embedded shell com-posed of 132 pairs of anchors. The goal of this model is to determine the loads acting on the structure under consideration and to study the phenomenon of scour around it as a function of the different combination of load cases on the shaft due to the actions of waves and wind.

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name: NUREMCO New reinforcement technologies using Composite Materials

The objective of the Project is to study the use of composites to repair, improving the strength and stiffness, concrete structures.

AICIA is specifically dedicated to define tests to determine the influence of different parameters of the manufacturing of the reinforcement in the mechanical properties of the reinforced structure.

The questions mentioned will be studied through laboratory tests on specimens prepared in- situ, in order to clarify the issues raised. These tests are not standardized as the matter under consid-eration is a quite novel issue. Thus, it will be nec-essary to develop a methodology for carrying out

the tests, methodology that can establish the ba-sis for future standardization of these tests. The figure represents a scheme and results of a pull-off tension test.

The study requires to adapt the LRI (Liquid Resin Infusion) manufacturing technique for the perfor-mance of the reinforcements. LRI does not pre-sent remarkable difficulties at the level of labora-tory or in factory, but presents serious additional difficulties in outdoor applications. The influence of the vacuum level in the porosity will be careful-ly studied, estimating it directly and also through its impact on the performance of reinforcement.

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name: CERSOL High temperature and pressure ceramic receiver for gas turbine and mixed cycle hybrid solar systems

The aim of this Project is the manufacturing at commercial scale of a ceramic receiver for CSP systems with integrated hybrid solar tow-

er technology. This will be achieved increasing the contribution of heat exchange between the receiv-er and the fluid, due to the excellent thermal and mechanical properties of the ceramic materials.

The receiver will be able to introduce high tem-perature solar heat directly to a gas turbine, op-

erating at temperatures over 1000ºC, increasing the solar contribution. Thus, high performance potential of the modern mixed cycles could be used to transform solar heat in electricity with positive effects in production costs.

The tasks assigned to the Group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials include mechanical, phys-ical-chemical and structural testing as well as tests of the sealing and the ceramic-metal joint.

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name: ACMATERIALES Study of improvement and selection of materials

client: ATLANTIC COPPER S.L.U.

Various studies have been carried out in re-lation to advising about the use of various metallic materials in a copper production

plant, in order to optimize the materials used to increase their service life.

Image of elements under study.

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name: AVANZA2New concept of tower plant with fluids at very high temperatures and better cycle performance with respect to the current ones.

client: ABENGOA SOLAR NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Tests are being carried out of corrosion at high temperatures on different alloys for the de-sign and construction of a molten material

storage tank in the development of an energy storage system.

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sector: Environment

name: BIOFIL Application of a new bio-ceramic material for filtration at high temperature and high pressure applications.

client: UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE, INERCO S.A., BIOMORPHIC EBT AND CIDEMCO, WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

The main objective of the BIOFIL project is the development of a new gas filtration technolo-gy at high temperature and pressure through

the design, characterization and optimization of wood-based ceramic filters.

AICIA facilities include a semi-industrial high temperature filtration plant, currently in opera-tion at the ETSI-University of Seville. This pilot plant allows testing different filters and pulses cleaning strategies under a wide range of operat-ing conditions such as temperature and pressure. A new experimental campaign has been carried out in order to test a new type of ceramic can-dle. The filter is fabricated from wood and other natural materials as a result of a novel, environ-ment friendly, patented process developed by the Physics Faculty of University of Seville (BioSiC®), which provides excellent thermo-mechanical per-formance, chemical and structural stability in a wide interval of temperature. The main objective of the experimental test planning is the identifi-cation of the most suitable operating conditions for the new filtering material candles.

Ceramica candle BioSIC®.

General view of the filtration pilot installation.

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sector: Environment

name: LIFEWATCH1

client: CONFEDERACIÓN HIDROGRÁFICA DEL GUADALQUIVIR

The large European infrastructure for e-sci-ence and technology environmental research led by Spain. It connects biodiversity, ecosys-

tems and water quality with public officials, sci-entists, environmental managers, businesses and citizens.

It was born to face the biodiversity challenges today: Global (not just climate) change, biodiver-sity loss, changes in land use, water availability, desertification, the pressure of a growing human population. What actions need to be undertaken to ensure long-term sustainability?, how to man-age both terrestrial and marine landscapes?, can we adapt to environmental changes?, where are the thresholds of the funtions and structures of the ecosystems?, which are the impacts on bio-diversity of climate change, pollution and the use of land and seas?, how do these changes af-fect the provision of ecosystem services? These issues were raised by the IPBES (Intergovern-mental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services) in Nagoya 2010 where the need for a strategic plan was established to take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity in order to ensure that by 2020 eco-systems were resilient and continue to provide essential services, thereby, thus ensuring the va-riety of life on the planet, and contribute to hu-man welfare and poverty eradication.

Lifewatch is an ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures,) which is building a large research infrastructure for e-science and technology related to biodiversity data and ob-

servatories; that will be the global benchmark for the protection, management and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Lifewatch will create all the necessary technol-ogy to establish a scientific network in Europe in the field of environment; connecting thousands of sensors and a variety of databases; designing tools to draw conclusions from this data cloud that will improve environmental management, facilitating decision-making for managers and policy makers, making them more transparent to the public; accelerating scientific production facilitating the collaboration through virtual laboratories and an intelligent computer system able to locate items of interest to the European re-searchers and automatically broadcasting them. So, Lifewatch will contribute to achieve the goals outlined in Horizon 2020.

Lifewatch main objectives are the development of services and infrastructures that: give techno-logical support to the institutions involved; boost R+D+i; provide new information tools; provide new insight into the environmental situation, to contribute to understand their limits, the resil-ience of ecosystems and the relationships be-tween biodiversity and the services the ecosys-tems provide; thus, Lifewatch allows the opening of new business opportunities for European com-panies, connecting with industry and promoting the transfer of knowledge.

Lifewatch is established as a distributed net-work and its essential physical nodes are: virtual laboratories in Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

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sector: Environment

name: LIFEWATCH2

client: CONFEDERACIÓN HIDROGRÁFICA DEL GUADALQUIVIR

service centre in Lecce, Italy; and both the statu-tory seat and the ICT-core services in Andalusia, Spain. But also incorporates various European and worldwide excellence networks on sensors, biodiversity databases, GRID and supercomput-ing centres, and research centres in biodiversity;

including the network for long-term terrestrial ecosystems research (LTER), the network of ma-rine observatories and the large natural-science collections. In addition to scientific and in-kind contributions from various state-members of the European Union.

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sector: Production Technology

name: Development of microencapsulation systemsMicroencapsulation by Flow Focusing and Flow Blurring technologies and design of new Spray-Drying processes.

client: INGENIATRICS TECNOLOGÍAS S.L.

In 2013, fundamental advances have been made. The lacks of the existing processes for large scale production of solid, functional microcapsules

have been identified and quantified. Particularly, an extremely advanced spray-drying system has been developed specifically for the sophisticated Flow Focusing technology, given that no exist-ing system nor design philosophy was capable of processing the product respecting the liquid microstructures generated by our microfluidic

technologies. Said microstructures are essential for the functional properties of the final product. With this development, the firm has been given an extraordinary capacity differing from any other competitor in the present market. The first pilot equipment of microencapsulation designed from the research carried out was an immediate success. At present, the firm is constructing the second pilot plant at its facilities based on this development.

Head of concentric, multiple and conditioned Flow Focusing microencapsulation.

Head of concentric Flow Focusing microencapsulation in the processing chamber.

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name: SIMUVIA On-board Simulation for Track Auscultation by Observing the State of Railway Vehicles

SIMUVIA is an industrial R+D project that aims to develop new technologies for railroad vehicle and tracks maintenance. SIMUVIA

is being developed by the companies SANDO, Conacon y Nadir together with the Mechani-cal Engineering Group and the support of Adif. SIMUVIA is funded by Corporación Tecnológica Andaluza (CTA) and Agencia IDEA of Junta de Andalucía.

The objective of SIMUVIA is to develop a me-chatronic system to be installed in railroad ve-hicles that includes an instrumentation system and a acquisition-simulation computer that can be used to obtain data about track geometry and security and quality of the ride in real-time. SIMUVIA includes analytical, numerical and ex-perimental tasks for its development.

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name: Experimental Survey for Analyzing the Influence of Assembly Process Parameters on the Fatigue Life of Blind Bolts Riveted Metal-Composite Joints (MTQM-T-201010-S1)

This project, in collaboration with Airbus Mili-tary, has the aim to experimentally assess the influence on the fatigue life of the drill burrs

trapped at the interface of stacks of Aluminum-CFRP joined with blind bolts. To this end, three types of hybrid specimens for high, medium and low loading transfer (HLT, MLT and LLT respec-tively) have been designed and tested under fa-

tigue loading. The fatigue behavior of these spec-imens with and without drilling burrs has been compared and analyzed. It has been observed that the mechanism of crack initiation varies from fretting fatigue initiation to notch assisted initiation depending on the type of specimen and the applied load level.

Detail 2 types of specimens tested (on the left and center). Fractography observed (on the right).

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name: AMASADevelopment of a new method of Execution of Ground Connection Points and Current Return

This project, in collaboration with EADS-CASA, has the aim to develop a new method for manu-facturing bounding connections in aircrafts, in

which it would not be necessary to uncover the con-tact surface by means of using a special geometry of joining elements. As alternative to the laborious current process for the manufacturing of bounding connections (see Figure 1), a new method to avoid

intermediate cleaning operations is proposed. This new method would make use of rivet washers that fulfill technical requirements. Within the project it must be checked out that the selected approaches is consistent in real applications, being necessary for this purpose to carry out theoretical studies, nu-merical simulations and a series of tests that would validate the new bounding method proposed.

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name: Analysis of failure of the Portachuelo blade-hub union

The objective of this research Project is to determine the reason of the failure of the hub-paddle joint, due to the fracture of all

connection bolts. Many test has been executed, microscopic analysis and mechanical testing of broken screws as well as used screws which didn’t fail and new ones) as mechanical testing too. Visual test focused to broken screws, the type of failure (static of fatigue mechanics) was defined, as well as the nucleation cracks zone, how these

cracks has been propagated, etc. In used screws it was analyzed if there was a crack initiated and how long there was, with the purpose of evaluat-ing the damage of these screws. Mechanical tests were focused on defining the stress-torque rela-tionship, and, on the other hand, evaluating the fatigue behavior in both, new and used screws, in order to predict the useful life of screws that there are in the wind farm.

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sector: Production Technology/ICT

name: OFFSHORE2GRID1 Integration of offshore power in the electricity grid

client: GPTECH SERVICES, S.L.U

This project is focused on the analysis of the behavior of an auxiliary large structure used for building an offshore platform. The nodes

of the structure are strengthened by injecting a high-strength mortar between two concentric structural steel tubes. A finite element model of one of the nodes of the structure subjected to high loads have been performed.

The finite element model considers the fracture behavior of the concrete, using a damage model plasticity in compression and softening when tensile stresses exceed the strength of the mortar. The steel tubes has been modelled by consider-ing plastic behavior. Moreover, the interaction between mortar and steel have been modeled through frictional contact conditions. The results will determine the level of structural safety of the proposed solution and allow to analyze the yield-ing zone produced during its loading and the level of cracking in the mortar.

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sector: Production Technology/ICT

name: OFFSHORE2GRID2 Integration of offshore power in the electricity grid


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name: TORRESOLAnalysis of mirror resistance in function of the superficial state generated by cleaning processes

Torresol Energy works with solar power tower technology, as well as with cylindrical para-bolic collector technology. The company re-

quested to the Mechanical Engineering Group, a mechanical characterization of the mirrors as a function of the surface finishing due to the clean-liness process.

The aim of the mechanical characterization is to define the instantaneous static and cyclic loading strength. For that purpose, two different tests are performed: four-point bending for rectangular mirrors (Figure 1) and concentric rings for square mirrors (see Figure 2).

Left photo, four-point bending for rectangular mirrors and right photo concentric rings for square mirrors.

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sector: ICT

name: PROMISISMission processing for multi-vehicle systems.

client: NAVANTIA, S.A.

This project is carried out in the framework of the INNTERCONECTA Command and con-trol for interoperability of unmanned systems

(CITIUS). In this period a parser for the C-BML language has been developed. This language allows the definition of different multi-purpose missions. In particular, four missions of interest in naval applications have been defined using this language. The C-BML parser has been inte-grated in the command and control station in or-der to automatically generate the corresponding sequence of commands for these missions. On the other hand, the interfaces between the com-mand and control software and different types of autonomous vehicles have been also defined. These interfaces have been tested in a mosaic generation mission with an autonomous aerial vehicle over an area close to the Engineering School of Seville.

Mosaic generation from the images gathered by an autonomous aerial vehicle flying over an area close to the Engineering School of Seville.

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sector: ICT

name: NAVGROUND Navigation System for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle.

client: GTD

Teleoperated ground vehicle.

The main goal is the design and development of an unmanned ground vehicle and its inte-gration in a system with multiple unmanned

vehicles in the framework of the INNTER-CONECTA CITIUS on the command and con-trol for interoperability of unmanned systems.

In 2013 the main activities were the functional specifications, the requirements of the onboard devices, the selection of components and the design of the whole system architecture. The ground vehicle is based on an electric Hummer HX platform.

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sector: ICT

name: EMC SupportEMC support for the design and development of electronic power converters

client: SKYLIFE ENGINEERING, S.L.

One of the lines of business of the company Skylife Engineering is the development of power electronics converters for aircraft ap-

plications. These converters are subject to strict requirements on weight and volume and must also comply with a specific and very stringent

electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) normative. These facts greatly complicates the design of aer-onautical power converters. The main task of the research team of AICIA in this project is to pro-vide support in Electromagnetic Compatibility issues at the stages of design, development and qualification of electronic power converters for aeronautical applications. This activity includes to study and propose, for each particular electric specifications, optimum topological alternatives from the point of view of EMC. The research team is also responsible for the selection and charac-terization of components and for design of EMI filters that must incorporate the equipment. Also, the research team of AICIA provides technical support in pre-certification tests of EMC, which are intended to ensure the proper functioning of the equipment in their working environment and to facilitate the subsequent certification of the equipment according to the EMC requirements of the applicable normative.

270-28 DC-DC power converter designed and constructed by Skylife Engineering for Cassidian.

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sector: ICT

name: ARESS Development of Advanced Energy Storage Systems for integration of Electricity Generation Plants using Renewable Sources.

client: WINDINERTIA TECNOLOGIES, S.L.

The project aims at developing a battery based storage system of approximately 1MW, con-nected to the outlet of a renewable generation

system to facilitate integration of said generator into the electricity network, improving stabiliza-tion and giving support to the generation system for participation in network regulation services.

The conditioning of the battery stack for connec-tion to the grid requires a highly efficient and robust DC/AC converter, with certain specifica-tions to be defined from initial studies made on the system.

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sector: ICT

name: CEPHEUS Experimental satellite for the development of space technology in Andalusia

client: ABENGOA HIDRÓGENO, S.A., SOLAR MEMS TECHNOLOGIES S.L.

The main objective of the Cepheus project is to design, develope, construct and validate to reach the Flight Model (FM) of a picosatellite

following the CubeSat standard, that will carry on board various payloads (for payload understand all that which justifies the development of the satellite that in this case, are the experiments em-barked) for experiments with different technolo-gies: a fuel cell system, a star tracker with MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System) and a second-ary communications link.

The end objective of the current project is the de-sign, implementation and integration of the first, totally Andalusian satellite, CEPHEUS, making

way for the participation of universities, institu-tions and firms in Andalusia.

The main objectives are to demonstrate the vi-ability of the project and the capacity of the Andalusian bodies taking part, to design and implement the first Andalusian satellite and dem-onstrate the fitness of these satellites as spacial experiment platforms; they will be encompassed within the same scientific loads and orientated to tasks related to the development of new instru-ments such as fuel cells and scientific studies that will analyse the behaviour of these systems so demanding as space.

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sector: ICT

name: PV ON-TIME1

Intelligent systems of production, storage and management of PV ON-TIME photovoltaic energy


T he use of PV ON-TIME seeks to attain the experimental development of a new proto-type based on an intelligent system of pro-

duction, management, control and storage of on-time electric energy that incorporates a sen-sor and advanced telecommunications network, directed at large scale photovoltaic plants of 30, 60, 90 MW and scalable to other plants with dif-ferent power rating, in national and international environments.

This intelligent system will be able to produce electric energy in the on-time way, from a quan-titative viewpoint regarding injection into the electricity grid, and a quality one as regards the

sustainability, reliability, stability and safety of the grid.

In this way, PV ON-TIME will be capable of op-erating in a flexible way, complying with the operating requirements of the most demanding grid operators at international level, satisfying the stability and supply quality requirements of large consumers connected to isolated and/or weak grids, and at national level giving national and Andalusian photovoltaic plants the capacity to operate in the ordinary regime.

In order to reach this objective, hybrid storage el-ements (Ultracapacitors + batteries) will be used as storage method, in order to achieve a double

On the left, PV ON-TIME system scheme.

On the right, PV ON-TIME logo

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sector: ICT

name: PV ON-TIME2

Intelligent systems of production, storage and management of PV ON-TIME photovoltaic energy


dynamic inertia system, where research will be carried out about the use of redox flow batter-ies versus lithium-ion technology, including re-search into a new control system that allows not only tension and frequency regulation, but also active and reactive power control.

Furthermore, this intelligent system will use re-liable meteorological prediction tools by gen-erating models developed from artificial neural networks, as well as new design and calculation algorithms for FV installations aiming at attain-ing their complete control. The system will be equipped with an advanced sonorization net-

work together with an advanced telecommunica-tions grid that will allow the on-time generation commitments to be optimized.

This prototype will also be equipped with a metal enclosure that will integrate all the PV ON-TIME systems, emulating a sea transport container to ensure the commercialization and internation-alization of the system. This enclosure will have certain mechanical characteristics, of superficial and structural treatment, capable of guarantee-ing the operation of the intelligent system and complying with international standards for elec-tric insulation.

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sector: ICT

name: SBPSmart Business Park


The main objective of the SBP project is to de-velop new, innovating and technologically advanced products and services that will

allow energy efficiency and environmental sus-tainability of business and industrial parks to be improved, achieving a reduction in energy con-sumption and greenhouse gas emission, as well as more attractive production spaces for future implantation and/or the retaining of the firms situated in them.

To achieve the main objective, three technical ob-jectives are identified:

• Increase global energy efficiency of industrial parks by developing new concepts, control al-gorithms and technological tools aimed at the

improvement of services and the reduction of costs for all the stakeholders (managers of spac-es, firms and final users – workers and visitors).

• Design control and centralized management tools, in real time of energy flows related to distributed generation and to existing con-sumption in the industrial parks, as well as the necessary algorithms for optimal man-agement of the available resources.

• Design tools procedures for the aggregate management of the interior electric grid of the industrial park, managing energy de-mand in an active way, obtaining a tool for planning new investments and integrating it under the figure of the SBP manager.

A1 – Smart Public Lighting

A2 - Smart Building

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SBP areas of activity.

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sector: ICT

name: TIGRIS1

Total integrated Grid Intelligent System

client: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L., TELVENT ENERGÍA S.A.

The main objective of the project is to develop a Smart Grid solution integrated and secure, to make the power distribution is done effi-

ciently, economically, automated and reliable, so as to help increase system capacity without in-vesting in new infrastructure.

Using as a case study the industrial park, is to increase the energy efficiency of industrial elec-trical construction and minimize dependence on the external network.

Within a consortium of several participants, AI-CIA by outsourcing Telvent Energy develops its work in the first activity of the project "A1 Smart Network Devices".

• More specifically, the main task will be to de-velop an integrated Rogowski coil, which al-lows the acquisition and measurement of any

General architecture of TIGRIS project.

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sector: ICT

name: TIGRIS2

Total integrated Grid Intelligent System

client: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L., TELVENT ENERGÍA S.A.

type of electric current, either phase sensitive ground, resistive or homopolar neutral. Once implemented, the integrator goodness for ac-curacy and immunity to noise is evaluated.

• Finally define a second task of making a Ro-gowski coil itself, adapted to the measure-ment requirements detected.

Basic diagram of measurement Rogowski coil integrator and DSP.

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sector: ICT

name: CUBESAT

client: ABENGOA HIDRÓGENO S.A.

The Cubesat satellite that will be developed within the project frame will be made up of 3 modules (Cubesat 3U). Two of these will be

intended to house the fuel cell system developed by Abengoa Hidrógeno. The third module will house the rest of the subsystems (ADACS, EPS, thermal subsystem, mechanical subsystem, tel-ecommunications subsystem, and on board com-puter) together with some useful loads that are identified during the development of the current collaboration.

Phase 0/A, the subject of the current agreement, addresses the following objectives:

• Definition of requirements and restrictions of the mission.

• Evaluation of the various concepts or solu-tions and their viability.

• Choice of solutions and justification.

• Definition of characteristics of solutions adopted: risks, costs, schemes...

• Evaluation of the different interfaces

• Definition of the preliminary technical and functional specifications including interfac-es.

• Planning of the different stages of develop-ment: objectives & organization of the pro-ject.

• Drawing up of the project requirements doc-ument.

• Approval of functional specifications.

• Potential useful loads.

Abengoa Hidrógeno will be responsible for the design and pre-dimensioning of the fuel cell sys-tem and all its auxiliary systems.

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sector: ICT

name: ENERGYVIAS


The ENERGYVIAS project aims to develop a series of power generation technologies (pi-ezoelectric, photovoltaic, eolic, induction…)

and to make a study of their integration in the transport infrastructure (roads, railways, ports and airports) to feed local low consumption ap-plications or their link to the distribution systems.

It involves developing both design and engineer-ing methodologies and technologies for putting into practice and installing that can give rise to new products, uses and services of potential com-mercial exploitation. In this context, the Founda-tion aims at developing a series of innovating technologies whose common objective is to give solutions to the technical implications derived

from installing multiple photovoltaic capture sys-tems distributed over a large area of land, in the context of transport infrastructures.

The activity of the Foundation in the frame of this project involves developing and implement-ing various calculation models whose function will be the quantification of photovoltaic gen-eration potential, optimization of the geomet-ric parameters of design and installation of the capture systems, and diagnosis of the state of operation of the elements of the grid. Further-more, new grid architectures are studied, based on the smart-grid paradigm, to be adapted to a distributed generation, consumption and opera-tion model.

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sector: ICT

name: HV - STBViability Study for FACTS Tension Control-HV – STB Project

client: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L.

Performance of a technical/economic viabil-ity study of FACTS devices, more specifi-cally Shunt Static Compensators (Static Var

Compensators, from now on SVC), in the Span-ish transport network. The objective of the study is to evaluate the fitness of the development and future installation of SVC equipment to resolve stability problems presented by the current trans-port network in Spain in both permanent and transitory regimes, problems that, on the other hand, are applicable to international transport. This suitability will be tackled from two comple-mentary perspectives: a first technical one, evalu-ating whether the proposed equipment allows for adequate regulation of the network in permanent and transitory states, and a second, purely eco-nomic one in which the expected cost of develop-ing and installing this equipment is detailed.

In this first preliminary study phase, a profound study of the state of the art of this type of convert-ers will be carried out. From this it will be pos-sible to technically evaluate the proposed solu-tions, in particular:

• Analysis of proposed topologies.• Analysis of systems of control & communica-

tions.• Comparison between Stacks technologies

and semiconductors.• Analysis of reliability and MTTF (Mean

Time To Failure) failure rate.• Study of different solutions aimed at reduc-

ing operating and system maintenance costs.• Possibility of carrying out hot swapping (re-

placing parts of operating equipment)• Study of adequateness of the chosen substa-

tion.• High tension insulations.

Furthermore, the possibility of patenting the pro-posed solutions will be taken into account. From the technical analysis, it will be possible to eco-nomically evaluate the proposed topology, at the level of equipment and costs of adapting the sub-station under study, as well as the possibility of exploring it.

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sector: ICT

name: IEIIntelligent energy integration in weak networks

client: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L.

The general objective of the project is the de-velopment, experimentation and validation of an innovating stable electric system, ideal

and reliable for its application in isolated or weak areas both from a geographical and from an elec-trical view point. To this end, the following objec-tives stand out:

• Technical:

- Development of an wind converter.

- Development of a multilevel FV inverter.

- Development of a double dynamic stor-age system.

- Development of integral control system.

• Environmental:

- Reduction of CO2 emissions. High possi-bility of integrating renewable energy.

• Economic:

- Reduction of costs of infrastructures for electricity generation and distribution in isolated areas. To promote industrial de-velopment in geographically and electri-cally isolated areas.

Isolated network with IeI system integration.

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sector: ICT

name: SHADHybrid and Distributed Storage System


Hybrid technology (super condensers+batteries) of modular and scalable energy storage for the construction of an intelligent network of

energy storage nodes.

• The development of high performance elec-tricity storage, attaining a commercial product with multiple applications, patent-ing and identifying new lines of investiga-tion.

- Internationalization in strategic markets (railway, electric vehicle infrastructure, smart grids, etc.) multiplying the rate of business (400% in 2 years).

- Improvement in energy efficiency of elec-tric systems and the integration of renew-able sources.

- Storage system that minimizes impact on environment.

- Potentiating of the technological and in-dustrial material of Andalusia in strategic sectors.

- Change in the model of production, creat-ing work for high capacity technicians.

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sector: ICT

name: ADAPTATechnologies for the Personalization and Interaction of Digital contents, Adapta Project. 2011 Innterconecta Programme.

client: WELLNESS TELECOM

Within the global approach and framework entailed in a project of the breadth of an Innterconecta, AICIA carries out various

specific tasks:

1. State of the art of the sensor technologies useful in the cases of use developed during the project, as well as their posterior develop-ment, integration and implementation.

2. State of the art of existing wireless commu-nications, selection and development of a wireless network that gives a solution to the various and remote locations of the sensor system.

3. Integration of the wireless sensor network with the rest of the system.

4. Carrying out of individual and joint concept tests and validation of the results.

Generación de contenidos

Entrega de contenidos

Visualización Interacción del usuario

Análisis del contexto

Anuncios adaptados al

usuario

Motor de recomendación

Construcción de perfiles

Análisis de la interacción

Captación de respuestas

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sector: ICT

name: CAMPAdvanced Metering Communication PLC

The objective of this project is to develop a communication solution for remote man-agement of electricity meters based on the

PRIME standard, which is PLC type. This solu-tion of communication is specified in the devel-opment of a software/hardware realization based on their own design and development of an em-bedded system, to be used as communication in-terface for electric meters PLC.

The development of this project is based on two parts:

1. Implementation of the PRIME standard in its current to the date of the draft version.

2. Complete integration of the PLC communi-cation in a very simple embedded electronic self-realization, even contemplating doing so in a single microcontroller, except the cou-pling line.

AICIA is participating in this project by the ex-perience of Electronic Engineering Group in the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering of the University of Sevilla in the development of embedded communication sys-tems and also in research and development of new techniques signal processing.

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sector: ICT

name: LEDESYGas Leak Detection System at Trough Technology Thermosolar Plants, Ledesy Project

client: MAGTEL SISTEMAS S.A.U.

The generic tasks of AICIA in this project in-clude almost all of it, except for management work. These tasks are resumed as follows:

1. Analysis of laws applicable to the surround-ings.

2. Search for a sensor solution for the detection of leaks.

3. Design at HW and SW level of electronic modules in charge of collecting the sensor measurement and form the wireless network necessary for information transference.

4. Design and manufacture of mechanical sys-tem for protecting the electronic modules and sensors.

5. Implementation of the data bridge and the graphic interface of the global system.

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Illustrative image watershed.

sector: ICT

name: MONICAOn-Line and Real Time Monitoring System of Water Quality in Watersheds

client: FUNDING ENTITY, MAGTEL OPERACIONES S.L.U.

Development of an automatic system for real time monitoring and "on site" basic quality pa-rameters of continental water systems.

Project 1089:

The MONICA project arises from the need to provide autonomy to process the control of water quality in watersheds.

At present there are numerous laboratories and research centers in which water pollution is ana-lyzed, usually using spectrometry techniques, providing a posteriori results.

Because of this MONICA is intended to incorpo-rate:

1. New sensor technologies, capable of per-forming on site measurements of specific pollutants.

2. Provide a communication system through which information is adjusted to a manage-ment center.

3. Interface management, responsible for mon-itoring the measuring system alert if certain thresholds are exceeded and predict decision models.

The role of AICIA as the only external entity is now in the phase of integrating the selected sen-sors, taking away tasks such as communications network or management system.

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sector: Transport and Infrastructures/ICT

name: ARIDLAPMinimization of effects originated by extreme climatologies on high speed railway infrastructure located in arid areas

client: CDTI Y OBRASCÓN HUARTE LAIN S.A.

This research is connected to HARAMAIN project (Medina-La Meca train) and focuses on the study of railway infrastructure compo-

nents.

One role of AICIA in this project is the design and performance of tests that could represent the particular climate conditions under which the train is working. In this sense, tests of mate-rial characterization, determination of residual stresses, determination of thermal expansion co-efficient and temperature cycling under loading are performed. Some of them are represented in the Figure. The testing campaign will finish with the experimental measurement of the impedance

of the overhead wire under mechanical load and thermal cycles.

The design of the most adequate monitorization of the rail and cable are also under study in this Project.

Standard of current in the incidence area on a deflecting screen. The formation of a high speed area is observed in the figure that helps to transport sand particles.

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sector: Transport and Infrastructures

name: MARVEDIPDynamic positioning of marine vehicles

client: NAVANTIA

The main goal of this project, carried out in the framework of the INNTERCONECTA ADAM on the Mobility Automation, is the

study and development of control algorithms for the ship dynamic positioning problem. Non-linear controllers based on passivity and thruster allocation algorithms based on optimization and

quadratic programming have been implemented during 2013. Extensive simulations have been carried out to validate the proposed techniques, using changing environment conditions (wind, current and waves) and considering uncertain-ties in the ship parameters.

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name: ATICAAll-Terrain Intelligent Compact and Autonomous Vehicle

client: ITURRI GROUP

The main goal of this project is the design and development of an off-road autonomous ve-hicle for transport applications. In the last

year we have designed the hardware and soft-ware. Moreover, the sensor modules (laser, GPS, IMU) and several software modules have been implemented and tested in the laboratory and in outdoor experiments. The communication sys-tem has also been developed and validated in-

cluding the hardware as well as the software and protocol based on the JAUS architecture with level of compliance 1. Moreover several modules, like the error management module and the ac-tuators interface module have been developed. The actuators interface module send references and receive status information from the vehicle actuators through a CAN J1939 communication network.

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name: VICTORIA-GIVEAutonomous inductive guidance of an electric bus

client: ISOTROL S.A.

This project in the framework of the INNTER-CONECTA Vehicle Initiative Consortium for Transport Operation & Road Inductive Ap-

plications (VICTORIA) is focused on the design and deveopment of an autoguided system for an electric bus.

The system will guide the bus through a set of buried coils that will recharge the bus batteries inductively. In 2013 the functional specifications, the design of the navigation algorithm and the system architecture have been completed. The system will be implemented in a TECNOBUS Gulliver U520 ESP bus. Autoguided electric bus.

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name: WIN4SMARTWater Information Network for Sensing, Monitoring & Actuating in Real-Time

client: ACQUEAU - EUREKA

Europe water utilities are facing with mount-ing operational and maintenance costs as a result of aging pipeline infrastructures.

Leaks and ruptures in water supply pipelines and overflow events in sewer collectors cost millions of Euros a year, and monitoring and repairing this underground infrastructure pre-sent a severe challenge. WIN4SMART is taking advantage of the new emerging telecommuni-cations systems to propose a complete commu-nication bus to link the water sensors with the monitoring centre.

AICIA in collaboration with other European companies and research centres will develop a system that will recover simultaneous measure-ments of a high number of points along water distribution network with a cycle-time of hours, enabling a wide range of applications oriented to increase the water use, the management of dis-tribution network and the systems involved, the water quality, and the final user service.

Launched in 2013 and leaded by NXP, WIN4SMART project has been labelled under ACQUEAU programme: the Eureka Cluster for growth and innovation in the water sector.

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Win4Smart communication concept.

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Tests, Analysis, Evaluations and Reports

TESTS, ANALYSIS, EVALUATIONS AND REPORTS

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name: CLCTest of characterization of anodes and cathodes used in copper refining.

client: COBRE LAS CRUCES S.A

Mechanical and morphological characteri-zation tests have been carried out of the anodes used in copper refining in order to

study their behaviour both before and after being

used in the process. Furthermore, morphologi-cal characterizations have been made on copper samples resulting from the refining, in order to study their quality.

Macrographic image of the structure of a copper sample.



name: ABANTIA 2013Evaluation of failure in oil conducts in a thermosolar plant.

client: ABANTIA TICSA

Image of the pipes under study.

Adiagnosis has been made of the failure of two HCE receiver pipes that were perforated be-fore being put into use.

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name: ASNT/ SALTS PIPE TESTSTests carried out on test tubes extracted from a molten salts transport pipe.

client: ABENGOA SOLAR NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Characterization tests have been carried out on the corrosion found in a molten salts trans-port conduct.


sector: Environtment

name: Absorbent characterization for flue gas desulphurization: lab-scale tests

client: CONTRATO CON ENDESA

The present work was started from the request made by ENDESA to characterize the reac-tivity (defined like reaction rate) of different

limestones, that could have a potential use in the Flue Gas Desulfurization plant of U.P.T. LITORAL

ALMERÍA. A series of reactivity tests has been made, on scale laboratory, in which the dissolu-tion rate has been determined, from the acid con-sumption based on the time, in watery solution at constant pH.

Experimental setup for reactivity analysis.

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name: Mechanical analysis of dental implants

Mechanical properties of different commer-cial dental implant models have been stud-ied in this project. By testing, both the ul-

timate strength and several aspects concerning the fatigue strength have been analyzed.

Several studies have been performed subjected to standard UNE-EN 14801. This standard pro-vides guidelines for the fatigue characterization

of dental implants allowing the determination of their fatigue curve.

Also, some finite element analyses have been carried out to characterize the mechanical behav-iour of dental implants. This information is useful from the standpoint of design, thus allowing the designer to improve the mechanical properties of such implants.



name: CRAMDesign and implementation of a rollover safety system in a tracked excavator

client: SEFOSA OBRAS Y SERVICIOS AMBIENTALES S.A.

The main objective of this project is to provide an excavator with a rollover safety system. Thus, the operator will be alerted when the

machine stability is compromised.

To achieve this goal, a set of sensors has been installed on the excavator. These sensors meas-ure the different quantities that describe both the

machine dynamics and its ground contact con-ditions. Also, using the data measured by these sensors, the system installed on the machine is able to determine automatically in real time the stability conditions, quantifying the rollover risk and alerting the operator thereof with different signals depending on the risk level.

Evaluación en tiempo real de la estabilidad de una retroexcavadora.

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Studies and Consultances

STUDIES AND CONSULTANCES

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name: COSETCExperimental study of the in-service behaviour of the Tail Cone of commercial aircrafts.

client: CTA

CTA funded this project to study the experi-mental behaviour in service regime of a com-mercial aircraft Tail Cone (COSETC). The ul-

timate goal of the project is the completion of the "full scale" test of Section 19.1 of the Airbus 350 XWB, the tail cone of the aircraft.

The test procedure of Section 19.1 is a real chal-lenge because it is the first time in aviation his-tory that this structural element is tested at full scale level. Thus, the test of Section 19.1 is now located on the highest level of the tests pyramid of a commercial aircraft.

The set of tests performed on Section 19.1 are in-tended to ensure the adequate level of stiffness and strength of this component of the aircraft, subjecting it to loads similar to those the compo-nent will suffer in service.

The design of the test procedure is responsibility of TEAMS (spin-off of the Group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials). AICIA participates, as OPI, in two major tasks. The first is related to the devel-opment of optimization tools for defining loads equivalent to those required. The second is to sup-port TEAMS in regards to the design of the test rig and in the preliminary trials of the test.

Full-Scale Test of S19.1 of AIRBUS A350.

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name: Composite materials reception and requalification tests for ALESTIS

client: ALESTIS

AICIA is in charge of the reception of com-posite materials and resins for ALESTIS. The reception includes a selection of destructive

testing to ensure that a batch of material received meets the requirements specified in their qualifi-cations, which are used to design and calculate elements.

As is known, composite materials must be main-tained at very low temperatures to avoid polym-erization of the matrix before the manufacturing of the final element. In spite of this, their proper-ties degenerate with time, which means that each material has a nominal period of life. If this pe-

riod expires, some tests have to be performed to extend the working life of the material, these tests being known as requalification tests.

The most meaningful tests used both in recep-tion and requalification are:

Physicochemical: Weight per unit area, Deter-mination of volatiles, Content voids, Resin and fiber contents and Density.

Mechanical: Tensile, Compression, Interlami-nar Fracture Toughness, Interlaminar Shear (SBS -Short Beam Shear), Single Shear, Double Shear, Bell Peeling and Drum Peel.

Interlaminar Fracture Toughness test.


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name: EMC QUALIFICATION EMC Qualification of Transformed Equipments

client: SUMINISTROS, FRESADOS Y GRABADOS S.L.

The company GRABYSUR focuses one of its lines of business in the manufacture of air-craft cockpit instruments. In particular they

are specialists in the manufacture of illuminated panels. In this project the research team of AI-CIA has verified the correct behavior from the point of view of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of three aircraft cockpit indicators that have undergone modifications to improve their performance. These transformed units must meet the EMC requirements of the aviation standard RTCA/DO-160C. For some of the sections of this

standard the research team has provided techni-cal arguments to demonstrate that the modifica-tion suffered by the units are not detrimental to its compliance with the EMC requirements imposed by the RTCA/DO160C standard. For some other sections of this regulation, it has been necessary to propose and carry out experimental tests based on test and procedures specified in the corre-sponding sections of the RTCA/DO160C stand-ard. The research group has demonstrated that the transformed equipment complies with all the applicable EMC requirements of RTCA/DO160C.

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sector: Energy

name: Abengoa Research/Finite Volumes

client: ABENGOA RESEARCH

This project consisted of a 16 hour course of advanced computational fluid mechanics di-vided into two days and given to specialized

staff of the ABENGOA firm. The mathematical bases of finite volumes were explained and va-rious examples of interest were resolved.


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sector: Energy

name: Project Operation of Transmission and Distribution Networks

client: UNIÓN FENOSA DISTRIBUCIÓN

This project is a continuation and expansion of a previous project between AICIA and Union Fenosa. Following the previously obtained re-

sults, this project also provides a characterization of the errors included in the measurements, and an analysis of the impact of parameter errors on the estimation process.

The project also incorporates advice and support in the final stages of developing of an application of state estimation for electrical distribution sys-tems. This application is used by Union Fenosa as a tool for planning their networks.

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sector: Energy

name: Transformer maneuvers with controlled maneuver relays. Electromagnetic studies

The transformer energizations can lead to prob-lems such as long voltage sags, undesired pro-tection tripping, reduction of the lifetime of the

insulating materials and overvoltages produced by resonance phenomena, among others.

This project deals with the study and advice in re-lation to the tools available to fight this phenom-enon, especially the use of controlled maneuver relays, for which transient models and studies based on simulations will be accomplished.


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sector: Energy

name: SAREST Advanced system for rehabilitating buildings in the tertiary sector

client: AZVI S.A.

The objectives of the project are:

1) To design a detailed diagnosis procedure starting from the generation of a base of ref-erence indicators for high potential action typologies. With this information, a tool will be designed based on “benchmarking”, that allows for the detection of errors and poten-tial plans of action.

2) Implementation of packets of energy saving measures on demand and in systems in the automatic identification procedure.

3) Development of a tool that corrects the re-sults of the simulation of energy in buildings simulation software using data of energy bills of the building.

4) Development of an expert system that auto-matically identifies the best options (or com-binations of measures) to improve energy in a building under study.

5) Development of a methodology for inverse characterization of energy in a building, that will allow savings to be verified by com-parison of the starting situation and the im-proved one.

During the work, an experimental validation will be carried out in the AZVI corporative building in Seville.

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sector: Energy

name: Designing transition architectures from an objective investigation

client: EXCELLENCE PROJECT, INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND BUSINESS COUNCIL, ANDALUSIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The project proposes research to quantitative-ly study the utility of Mediterranean patios as a passive system of energy saving. To this

end, firstly, the archetype has been revised his-torically, proposing an approach that underlines their physical qualities and the objective advan-tages they bring in order to explain their origin and their survival.

A method will later be developed that permits air temperature inside a given patio to be deter-mined from its architecture and geographical lo-cation (microclimate), as it is the key parameter of their thermal utility. This tool will allow patios to be designed in the future, if so wished, in a more thermal energy conscious way. The results of said tool are useful for calculating the air con-ditioning necessities of the building, allowing the

economic and energy savings achieved by a de-termined patio design to be measured.

The method is based on a numeric model of fi-nite element calculation that uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for its development and an open code programme for introducing it in the computer (Freefem ++). To outline the design of the CFD tool, the numeric model of an actual building of which we have sufficient amount of data will be made, later comparing the virtual temperatures of the patio obtained by simulation with the real ones monitored in the building. Fi-nally, the virtual model will be compared to the data obtained from other actual patios different from the first to verify its adequate performance in any type of geometry within the limits set by the study.

Numeric simulation of the temperature in a vertical section of the Hotel Monte Málaga.


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sector: Energy

name: Analysis of the power behaviour of the concrete enclosures on the grounds of maximizing the advantages derived from their thermal inertia.

client: PUBLIC WORKS AGENCY, DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING COUNCIL, ANDALUSIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The project is aimed at promoting sustain-able, low energy consuming buildings by the use of innovating solutions of concrete

walls, based on maximizing the benefits of their thermal inertia for heating and cooling. These buildings reduce the need for air conditioning systems, even totally, so that greater comfort is obtained for the users together with a decrease in the energy needed to air condition them.

Thermal inertia improves power performance of buildings because it allows the variation in tem-peratures to be reduced and also the difference between the interior and exterior temperature. The physical characteristics of concrete give it great thermal inertia that makes it possible to predict optimum energy behaviour of a build-ing if this material makes up the internal nucleus (structure) and/or external (walls and roof).

The main objective of the project is to parametrize the fundamental variables that characterize ther-mal inertia of buildings with a view to substan-tially improving their treatment in thermal be-haviour calculation procedures of buildings. This parametrization will also allow the designers to

easily estimate the energy savings derived from the thermal inertia of buildings with concrete contour and structure.

One of the innovating points of the project is the validation of the numeric results in a prototype building of approximately 10 m2 with prefabri-cated reinforced concrete enclosures. The build-ing will consist of a 3 meter cube that includes a special facade on the south side to investigate various, unique, constructive solutions.

Prototype building.

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sector: Energy

name: Effect of radiant solutions for floors and roofs in CALENER and in simplified procedures for energy certification.

client: UPONOR

The main objective of the work carried out is to calculate the air and surface temperature conditions needed to reach similar thermal

comfort between air conditioning and radiant conditioning. Firstly, a programme for calculat-ing comfort has been developed based on the Fanger model of the UNE-EN ISO 7730 standard, integrated in a visual environment that facilitates the programme use for a particular geometry in which the dimensions, the surface temperatures and the meshing can be modified. Secondly, some equivalence parameters have been defined which, on being introduced into CALENER, al-low a building to be simulated that without radi-ant elements, has thermal behaviour similar to that it would have if the CALENER standard pro-gramme would allow the superficial temperature of an element to be imposed.

Calculation programme made to calculate the comfort, average radiant temperature, and operating temperature in spaces.


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sector: Energy

name: Estimation by internet of the energetic and economic impact of substituting glazing in buildings.

client: GUARDIAN

The studies needed to carry out a WEB appli-cation that estimates the energetic and eco-nomic impact of substituting the glazing in

buildings are tackled. The activities identified to this end are the following:

− Elaboration of a climatic data base and of characteristics of common elements in build-ings including air conditioning systems.

− Creation of a data base of the specific charac-teristics of the glazing constituents. The data will be supplied by GUARDIAN: thermal transmittance and solar factor of the prod-ucts that are to be included in the computer application.

− Elaboration of a calculation module based on correlations of calculation of demand of

existing buildings that allow variation in de-mand on modifying the constituents of the cover to be analysed, particularly the glazing, separating the influence of the glazing and the framework.

− Preparation of the prototype of a web appli-cation that permits the use of the above mod-ules. The interface should allow simple para-metric studies (comparison of results for two alternatives) to be carried out and integrated in the WEB material of the manufacturer.

− Elaboration of an economic analysis module that allows the economic saving of the opera-tion of substitution from the economic data supplied by the user to be evaluated.

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sector: Energy

name: CTEHE2012Revision of the CTE HE

client: EDUARDO TORROJA INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION SCIENCES

In 2010, a revision of the energy efficiency in buildings directive was published, that fixed a transition period of two years (until 2012) and

suggested that member states should establish a development framework of minimum require-ments. Three revisions have been foreseen for the Technical Code: 2011, 2015 and 2020. The agreement has three objectives:

− To continue the work of establishing the new requirements that the basic document of habitability and energy should contem-plate in the 2011 revision, in the frame of the evolution of requirements so as to attain the overall objective of the new directive to ob-tain new buildings of almost nil energy for 2018/2020

− To modify the official LIDER and CALENER programmes.

− To carry out a search process for the opti-mum cost solution in every climatic zone, ac-cording to that established by the 244/2012 Delegated Regulation that establishes a

comparative methodological framework to calculate the optimum levels of profitability of the required minimums of energy efficien-cy of buildings and their parts.

The works carried out in 2012 are the following:

− Estimation of heating and refrigeration de-mands in dwellings and tertiary buildings with the requirements fixed in Phase1. Study of impact on new buildings.

− Consolidation of tables and documents es-tablishing regulations

− Study of risk of overheating/subcooling in the absence of air conditioning.

− Winter ventilation: Sealing of opaque ele-ments, variable air-flow, double flow, self reg-ulating ventilation openings. Summer night time over ventilation. Special elements in the envelope.

− Implementation of new requirements. Com-bination of LIDER/CALENER tools. Admin-istrative outlets. Documentation update.


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sector: Energy

name: Incorporation of the gas heat pump in the scheme of the additional capacities of CALENER programmes

client: SEDIGAS

Acomputer application will be developed that simulates the seasonal performance of gas heat pumps and its repercussion on energy

classification of buildings through the CALE-NER programmes, using behaviour curves of the equipment of two manufacturers. The influ-ence of the climatic and operational conditions requires hourly simulation of the equipment. The

data of energy demand will be obtained from the post processor of the PostCALENER energy cer-tification in buildings results. At a second phase, starting from the simulation programme, a sim-plified characterization method of this equip-ment has been developed that permits its consid-eration in the CALENER-VYP and CE3 energy classification procedures.

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sector: Energy

name: Consultancies for optimizing the load of two cogenerations and implanting a steam turbine

client: DERIVADOS ENERGÉTICOS PARA EL TRANSPORTE Y LA INDUSTRIA, S.A. (GRUPO CEPSA)

The aim of the project is to optimize the load of two 42MW cogenerations, as well as the interest of installing a steam turbine on the

basis of different situations of demand for steam, daily situations in the electricity market and its interaction with other plants of the complex that also supply steam to the process.

A tool to permit the client to optimize and con-trol the optimum hourly charge of the two co-generations is created in the study. Variations in the legislative parameters are analysed that allow economic uncertainties of the cogeneration sec-tor to be marked out faced with the absence of an approved and defined legislative framework that will be retroactive after it is passed.

Boilers at the 42 MW cogeneration installation.


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sector: Energy

name: CHALGASCollaborative agreement between AICIA and CTH for the supporting of research activities on biomass gasification in fluidized bed at CTH

client: CHALMERS TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLA (CTH)

The project consists of a collaborative agree-ment between AICIA and CTU from which the AICIA will support the ongoing research

activities on fluidized bed gasification of biomass developed at CTH. The work will be implement-ed by several stays of a Professor from AICIA during the last trimester of 2013 and 2014 (Sep-tember 2013-August 2014). The research activi-ties to be developed are divided in the following two topics:

Topic 1: Study of conversion of a single particle in FBG, aimed at studying the mixing and con-version of gas and char in an FBG to identify measures for the optimization of the Chalmers gasifier. It includes research on fuel and char mixing, fuel-gas contact and char kinetics.

Topic 2: Study of tar conversion in FBG, aimed at developing knowledge to understand the conversion of tars generated in biomass FBG in order to define measures for secondary conver-sion of the tars.

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name: CEBASA2013 Extension of the expert technical report of the breakage in an axis of a bucket elevator system

client: CEBASA S.A.

Tests have been carried out to identify the causes of the breakage of a bucket elevator.


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name: AT COPPER 2013 Technical Consultancy

client: ATLANTIC COPPER S.L.U

Various studies have been made for technical advice in the diagnosis of incidents, material selection, and maintenance work at a copper

refining factory.

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name: FACONS Manufacture of simulated nuclear fuel pellets and characterization of the materials.

client: CIEMAT

Pellets are being manufactured and character-ized from sintered metal dust to be used as a substitute in developing and simulating nu-

clear fuels.


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name: Study of the frangibility of an structure used in airports

This work, done for TELVENT, studies the frangibility of structures of typical use in air-ports. These structures may be dangerous

for aircrafts if an accidental impact occurs dur-ing landing, take off or ground operations. The equipment and their structures should be fran-gible and mounted as low as possible to ensure that impact does not result in loss of control of the aircraft. This frangibility is achieved by use

of lightweight materials and/or the introduction of break-away or failure mechanisms that enable the object to break, distort or yield under impact.

A numerical study has been done in order to check frangibility in the structure (using a com-mercial Finite Element Code – ABAQUS). The study includes the effect of impact load and the elasto-plastic failure of the fuse bolts.

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sector: ICT

name: SMART-HDVC Viability study of Power systems for HVDC-SMART-HDVC


T he project will be centred on carrying out the design, manufacture, testing and validation of an infrastructure for a high power electron-

ic converter (HVDC converter), with outstanding characteristics of modularity and scalability. De-signed on the basis of FACT, PEBB, IPM technolo-gies, advanced control strategies and operating in a HVDC framework. A very attractive experimen-tal prototype of commercial interest for applica-tion in electric transport networks will be devel-oped, constructed and validated.

The development, manufacture and validation of the following equipment and control platforms is foreseen:

• 1MW HVDC electronic converter

The design will correspond to a high power electronic machine with multilevel topology, of modular type and with scalable character-istics. As a peculiarity, it is aimed at achieving a tension of 7.2kV on the AC side and one of 12.2 kV on the DC, using high capacity IGBTs as components. In the following, a reference topology of the structure of the proposed con-verter is shown.

• Control platform

Made up of algorithms and advanced control strategies, provided with the capacity to inter-act the different variables of the local system, but at the same time synchronize with the rest of the electricity grid. In this case, it is neces-sary to see to the actions planned for tension-

frequency regulation, compensate tension gaps, and other items described in the objec-tives.

• Test Bench

Treating the design characteristics of the HVDC electronic converters in relation with the power and work tension levels indicated, it will be necessary to define, develop and im-plement a complex electrical infrastructure of tests with medium tension requirements.

In this way, the design of a test bench with the capacity to carry out the range of tests re-quired is another challenge to be tackled. In this case, the design engineering of the test bench design should take various aspects into account; on one hand, to incorporate the con-cept of power recirculation that will permit the minimum amount of energy to be taken from the network and on the other hand, the neces-sity of implementing the emission station and the transmission receiver in order to emulate the real scene of work.

HVDC System.

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Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport and Supply / Solar Energy / Bioenergy / Wind and

Marine / Energy Saving and Efficiency / Power Plants / Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials

Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Evaluation and Control of Contamination / Waste Analysis and Evolution /

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Aeronautic Materials, Structures & Manufacturing / Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering.

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AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration /

Evaluation and Control of Contamination / Waste Analysis and Evolution / Protection and Inspection Processes. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Production Management /

Design, Management & Improvement of Production Systems / Business Management and Administration / Engineering Project Management. INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: Industrial Electronics / Consumer Electronics / Communication Electronics / Information Technologies / Biomedical Engineering / Telecom

Infrastructures & Services. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: Automation and Robotics / Chemical Processes Technology / Mechanical Technology / Metrology and Manufacturing

/ Process Supervision & Control / Instrumentation. TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES: Transport and Traffic Management / Logistics Management / Vertical Transports /

Vehicles / Infrastructures / Construction Technology. AERONAUTICAL: Aeronautic Materials, Structures & Manufacturing / Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic

Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport and Supply / Solar Energy / Bioenergy / Wind and Marine / Energy Saving

and Efficiency / Power Plants / Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis /

Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Evaluation and Control of Contamination / Waste Analysis and Evolution / Protection and Inspection

Processes. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Production Management / Design, Management & Improvement of Production Systems / Business Management and Administration

/ Engineering Project Management. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: Industrial Electronics / Consumer Electronics / Communication Electronics /

Information Technologies / Biomedical Engineering / Telecom Infrastructures & Services. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: Automation and Robotics / Chemical Processes

Technology / Mechanical Technology / Metrology and Manufacturing / Process Supervision & Control / Instrumentation. TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES: Transport

and Traffic Management / Logistics Management / Vertical Transports / Vehicles / Infrastructures / Construction Technology. AERONAUTICAL: Aeronautic Materials, Structures

& Manufacturing / Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport and

Supply / Solar Energy / Bioenergy / Wind and Marine / Energy Saving and Efficiency / Power Plants / Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY:

Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Evaluation and Control of

Contamination / Waste Analysis and Evolution / Protection and Inspection Processes. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Production Management / Design, Management &

Improvement of Production Systems / Business Management and Administration / Engineering Project Management. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:

Industrial Electronics / Consumer Electronics / Communication Electronics / Information Technologies / Biomedical Engineering / Telecom Infrastructures & Services.

PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: Automation and Robotics / Chemical Processes Technology / Mechanical Technology / Metrology and Manufacturing / Process Supervision &

Control / Instrumentation. TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES: Transport and Traffic Management / Logistics Management / Vertical Transports / Vehicles / Infrastructures

/ Construction Technology. AERONAUTICAL: Aeronautic Materials, Structures & Manufacturing / Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems /

Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport and Supply / Solar Energy / Bioenergy / Wind and Marine / Energy Saving and Efficiency / Power Plants

/ Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials.

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ENGINEERING: Production Management / Design, Management & Improvement of Production Systems / Business Management and Administration / Engineering Project

Management. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: Industrial Electronics / Consumer Electronics / Communication Electronics / Information Technologies

/ Biomedical Engineering / Telecom Infrastructures & Services. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: Automation and Robotics / Chemical Processes Technology / Mechanical

Technology / Metrology and Manufacturing / Process Supervision & Control / Instrumentation. TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURES: Transport and Traffic Management /

Logistics Management / Vertical Transports / Vehicles / Infrastructures / Construction Technology. AERONAUTICAL: Aeronautic Materials, Structures & Manufacturing /

Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport and Supply / Solar Energy /

Bioenergy / Wind and Marine / Energy Saving and Efficiency / Power Plants / Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotechnology / Metallurgy

Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Evaluation and Control of Contamination / Waste Analysis

and Evolution / Protection and Inspection Processes. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Production Management / Design, Management & Improvement of Production Systems /

Business Management and Administration / Engineering Project Management. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: AERONAUTICAL: Aeronautic Materials,

Structures & Manufacturing / Unmanned Aircrafts / Navigation & Air Traffic Control / Aircraft Systems / Aerospace Propulsion / Airport Engineering. ENERGY: Energy Transport

and Supply / Solar Energy / Bioenergy / Wind and Marine / Energy Saving and Efficiency / Power Plants / Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY:

Nanotechnology / Metallurgy Technology / Materials Simulation & Analysis / Metallic Materials. ENVIRONMENT: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Evaluation and Control of

Contamination / Waste Analysis and Evolution / Protection and Inspection Processes. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Production Management / Design, Management &

Improvement of Production Systems / Business Management and Administration / Engineering Project Management. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:

Industrial Electronics / Consumer Electronics / Communication Electronics / Information Technologies / Biomedical Engineering / Telecom Infrastructures & Services.

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