AIDA

Ash Ingestion Detection Apparatus for aircraft

Coordinatore	GREENBANK TEROTECH LTD    more  Organization address address: HARTSHORNE ROAD city: DERBY postcode: DE11 7GT contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Melanie Cognome: Hunt Email: send email Telefono: +44 1283 817205 Fax: +44 1283 817215
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙208˙911 €
EC contributo	930˙968 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2014-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	GREENBANK TEROTECH LTD  Organization address address: HARTSHORNE ROAD city: DERBY postcode: DE11 7GT contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Melanie Cognome: Hunt Email: send email Telefono: +44 1283 817205 Fax: +44 1283 817215	UK (DERBY)	coordinator	445˙868.00
2	WLB LIMITED  Organization address address: ZINONOS SOZOU (OFFICE 103) 11 city: LEFKOSIA postcode: 1075 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Sylvia Cognome: Sotiropoulou Email: send email Telefono: +35 722475621 Fax: +35 722475619	CY (LEFKOSIA)	participant	293˙776.00
3	LENIS GLOBAL PLASTIK VE KALIP SAN. TIC. LTD. STI.  Organization address address: Utku Mah. Sinema Park Cd.27-Dai 3 city: MANISA postcode: 45030 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Hatice Cognome: Kocalp Kilinclar Email: send email Telefono: +90 533 9349762 Fax: +90 236 2140473	TR (MANISA)	participant	112˙594.00
4	AEROCARE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED  Organization address address: "GEMINI BUSINESS PARK, EUROPA BOULEVARD, EASTER COURT UNIT 3" city: WARRINGTON postcode: WA5 7ZB contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: David Cognome: Hickson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1925 710694 Fax: +44 1925 712996	UK (WARRINGTON)	participant	62˙912.00
5	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Richard Cognome: Baker Email: send email Telefono: +44 1664 501501 Fax: +44 1664 501589	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	8˙633.00
6	INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE  Organization address address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 KARELAS 59 city: KOROPI ATTIKIS postcode: 19400 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Xenia Cognome: Bania Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 6526411 Fax: +30 210 6526419	EL (KOROPI ATTIKIS)	participant	4˙560.00
7	SC AEROSTAR SA  Organization address address: CONDORILOR 9 city: BACAU postcode: 600302 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ovidiu Cognome: Buhai Email: send email Telefono: +40 234585090 Fax: +40 234572023	RO (BACAU)	participant	2˙625.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Aircraft frequently encounter volcanic ash when airborne. In the aftermath of these encounters, virtually the entire fuselage of an aircraft can be contaminated with ash, necessitating a thorough cleaning of the cockpit, instrument panel, circuit breaker panels, passenger and baggage compartments. The electrical and avionics units can be so heavily contaminated that complete replacement is necessary, mainly due to the possibility that all the units could have suffered from overheating. The ash also contaminates the cargo-hold fire-warning system and can generate nuisance fire warnings which are due to the volcanic ash in the air rather than smoke from a fire. The present proposal aims to provide an advanced airborne volcanic ash detection apparatus which will make use of special machine vision interrogation of volcanic ash (tephra) and novel image analysis software. The integrated retrofittable system will examine air in the aircraft’s ventilation ducts. By interrogating foreign bodies in the fresh air entering the cabin and identifying the type, size and number of particles per unit time and inferring the presence of low level ash particles in the possible presence of other solids in the air e.g. sand etc an early warning may be conveyed to the crew whence appropriate action may be taken to reduce the exposure of the aircraft, thus making possible enormous savings on maintenance costs.'