A collection of case histories of successful collaborations between High Technology Network Laboratories and businesses. These are tangible and customisable examples of the application of new technologies, products, or services that show how industrial research can meet the needs of innovation.

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PYROMAT: Prototype for the pyrolysis of herbaceous waste from the maintenance of riverbeds, drainage and irrigation channels

From waste to resource for the building material market

Rivers, drainage and irrigation channels maintenance produces high amounts of waste biomass that can be divided into two macro-types: wood residues that are normally recovered and supplied as fuel to biomass plants and herbaceous residues that are...

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GST4Water - Green Smart Technology for Water

Sustainable use of water resources in urban areas

Availing of new Open Source technologies in the ICT field, the project has experimented innovative hardware and software solutions, that allow an aware use of the water resource at the individual user level and the grey and meteoric water reuse...

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IRRAOP: prototype for the degradation of residual pesticides

Sustainable management of pesticides

Italy is one of the world's largest consumers of pesticides. IRRAOP solves the problem of the management of pesticide residues in sprayer tanks: to date there are no validated and effective systems or services able to avoid the dispersion of these...

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SENECA- System for ENergy and Environmental Certification

Building energy and environmental assessment

SENECA is a tool to integrate with Environmental Management Systems able to support organizations, particularly in a more efficient management of energy consumption of buildings (both industrial and residential). The service is achieved through a web...

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Production technology of transparent ceramics for high power laser applications

Flexible process ready to be transferred at industrial scale

Transparent ceramic materials are fundamental as sources of laser radiation, especially for high efficiencies and emission in the infrared wavelenghts (typically in the region of 1010 to 1080 nm). The transparent ceramic material that has reached the...

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EDIT Value Tool

Identify priorities to increase efficiency in Small and Medium Enterprises

The EDIT Value tool supports companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), step-by-step and thanks to specific forms and checklists, in raising their awareness about the quantity and quality of the resources they use, the real costs...

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BIOMASS DISP - Biomass dispenser for anaerobic digestion plants

Improvement of methane yield from waste biomass

The dispenser system BIOMASS DISP mainly consists of a completely isolated fiberglass tank, a submersible pump, pipes connecting to the water supply to the plant and biogas and a bioactive catalyst Biocat + . The system is fed with water from the...

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Secondary raw material recovery from agro-food waste

Reduction of waste managemen costs, highly valuable chemicals production

Some agro-food waste products maintain several compounds even after their processing for dietary uses. By using advanced technologies, it is possible to recover specific molecules that can be employed, once extracted and purified, as secondary raw...

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