ULTRACLEANPIPE

Ultrasonic detection and removal of fouling inside industrial and domestic pipes

Coordinatore	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Deana Cognome: Thomas Email: send email Telefono: 441895000000 Fax: 441895000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙429˙502 €
EC contributo	1˙133˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2010-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-12-01   -   2012-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Deana Cognome: Thomas Email: send email Telefono: 441895000000 Fax: 441895000000	UK (UXBRIDGE)	coordinator	75˙000.00
2	TECNITEST INGENIEROS SL  Organization address address: Calle Ciudad de Frias 1-Nave 4 city: MADRID postcode: 28021 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Diego Cognome: Florez Email: send email Telefono: +34 91 7961418 Fax: 34917954759	ES (MADRID)	participant	442˙125.00
3	INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK  Organization address address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6DR contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Harvinder Cognome: Johal Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 725 7185 Fax: +44 203 2861168	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	291˙875.00
4	Ocean Team Scandinavia A/S  Organization address address: Vesterhavsgade 56 city: Esbjerg postcode: 6700 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jens Peter Høg Cognome: Thomsen Email: send email Telefono: 4575180077 Fax: 4575181056	DK (Esbjerg)	participant	243˙250.00
5	KENTRO EREVNAS TECHNOLOGIAS KAI ANAPTYXIS THESSALIAS  Organization address address: TECHNOLOGIKO PARKO A VIPE city: VOLOS postcode: 38500 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Giannis Cognome: Giakas Email: send email Telefono: +30 24310 63190 Fax: +30 24310 63191	EL (VOLOS)	participant	30˙000.00
6	ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS CATALONIA, SA  Organization address address: CALLE VICTOR PRADERA 45 city: CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA postcode: 8940 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Albert Cognome: Nieto Email: send email Telefono: +34 932049922 Fax: +34 932049866	ES (CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA)	participant	29˙500.00
7	H.J. HEINZ COMPANY LIMITED  Organization address address: "South Building, Hayes Park" city: HAYES postcode: UB4 8AL contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Barry Cognome: Aspey Email: send email Telefono: 441943000000 Fax: 441943000000	UK (HAYES)	participant	21˙250.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Fouling, as defined in this project, is the presence of unintended and unwanted deposits on the inside walls of industrial plant such as pipes, storage vessels, reactor vessels etc. Its occurrence is widespread though all industries, particularly oil and petrochemical pipelines, petrochemical plant, other chemical plant, pharmaceutical production, food processing as well as in plumbing systems throughout the domestic and industrial sector. Fouling shortens the plant life, increases the need for periodic cleaning and pipe replacement. It also causes contamination of the end products which is especially serious when the fouling involves bacterial biofilms and the products are intended for direct human consumption. In addition pipe blockages, deformation, rupture or corrosion cause by a build up of fouling can lead to major incidents such as explosions involving with threats to human life and plant destruction involving loss of product and jobs. In domestic pipes fouling causes taps and valves to seize up and leaks to occur which leads to expensive plumbing costs in replacement parts, high labour costs, expensive repairs from flood damage and disruption to domestic life. ULTRACLEANPIPE offers a novel solution to the general problem of identifying and then removing fouling in industrial plant as well as domestic plumbing. The system prototype will be designed for application to small bore pipes that arise in the food processing and pharmaceuticals production industry as well as in plumbing systems. This focus is taken because (i) small bore pipes are obviously much more prone to than large ones and (ii) contamination of products intended for human consumption is a problem of the highest order. However it is important to emphasise that the ULTRACLEANPIPE principle can be applied to all kinds of fouling in all industry by the use of a range of ultrasonic probe designs and operating frequencies'