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Next Generation of Wastewater Treatment Plants: Optimization of Treatment Performance through Online Monitoring of Holistic Sludge Properties – NEXT
The sludge is a by-product of the wastewater treatment. The sustainable management of this sludge is one of the major challenges of the 21st century: the total production of potential dry matter if all wastewaters produced on earth was treated is estimated at more than 80 Mt. In addition, the costs
Optimization and Research of Extraction Technologies and Alternative Solvents – ORTESA
Extraction Technology is one of the most promising themes that can strongly contribute to sustainable growth of the French economy. This conclusion was based upon two observations. Extraction plays a very important role in French industry. The chemical, food -and pharmaceutical industries heavily re
MOdelling of Porous Electrodes for an Optimized MAterial Design – MOMA
This project is dedicated to a bottom-up approach to optimize the design of porous electrode materials devoted to biofuel cells and biosensors. These devices operate on the basis of complex enzymatic electrochemical redox reactions coupled to mass transfer of substrates (glucose and O2) and electron
Hybrid tools for non-destructive evaluation and monitoring of infrastructures: optimized management for their durability – OHMIGOD
Structural health monitoring is a crucial issue for infrastructure managers and owners in different fields such as transport and energy civil engineering and buildings. Around the world, almost 15,000 infrastructures are in a degraded or even critical condition. At present, infrastructure managers r
Matériaux semiconducteurs MXene/organique hybrides pour des dispositifs électroniques à mobilité élevée – MX-OSMOPED
The proposed project will couple delocalized-state charge-carrier transport in MXenes and in state-of-the-art organic semiconductor crystals (OSCs) to realize high-speed electronic devices fabricated by printing of MXene/OSC blends. We will synthesize inks comprising MXenes and OSCs, which will allo
IoT for Supervision and Control of Water Systems – IoT.H2O
Water transport and distribution systems must be carefully monitored and operated to avoid water losses, to safe energy and to protect the assets of the water utilities against damages. In major water transport and distribution systems this task is performed by centralized SCADA (Supervisory Control
Geometric Control Methods, Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Applications – GCM
Several fundamental problems stemming from robotics, vision and quantum physics can efficiently be modeled in the framework of Geometric Control. The study and analysis of these problems can then be ranked as research questions of Sub-Riemannian geometry (SRG for short). The purpose of this project
Transport and Adsorption in MultiScale Porous Materials – TAMTAM
Hierarchical porous materials, combining multiple porosities, are widely used in industry (adsorption, separation, catalysis) to overcome slow diffusion in microporous solids ( < 2 nm) and increase access to their large surface area. The benefits of combining porosities by adding meso (2-50 nm) and
Sympathetic cooling with Be ions for precision measurements – BESCOOL
In the last two decades, spectacular advances have been made in the quantum state control of ions confined in radiofrequency traps. Methods have been developed for laser cooling of the external motion down to the vibrational ground-state. Sympathetic cooling extended these techniques to many atomic
Mechanisms of mucus transport and bronchial obstruction in COPD – BronchoClogDrain
Bronchial mucus is a hydrogel secreted at the surface of the bronchi to protect them from inhaled contaminants. It is continually transported by the collective beat of cilia that cover the bronchial epithelium, and by cough, a violent air flow capable of dragging mucus plugs away. In COPD, expected
