Objective Leakage is the principal cause of faults in numerous installations from simple waterline to petrol pumping station. Furthermore, temperatures and operating pressures of industrial installations have increased and pressure of several hundred bars and temperature approaching 1000°C are no longer marginal. Consequently, gasket materials and design must evolutes, and especially now that asbestos is forbidden. This project consequently aims at developing a new gasket able to withstand much higher temperature and requiring much lower eating loads than currently existing ones thanks to the use of new materials, already set up for other advanced technologies, for which manufacturing and transforming processes are known. The project will not be successful only by combining different materials or substituting the currently used materials with the new ones. One innovation of the project is really to combine advanced knowledge of new materials properties with new improvements in design, processing and combination technologies.Main achievements at the end of the project are:WP1: Specifications for each of the target applicationsWP1 & WP2 : Exhaustive list of materials (metals and ceramics based on zirconia) complying with the targeted applications, their properties and their performancesqWP3 : gasket designs for sealing application to be further investigatedWP4 & WP5 : Gaskets prototypes and validations of their performances (lab-scale & operating conditions Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbonsengineering and technologymaterials engineeringceramics Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-1. - Key Action Innovative Products, Processes and Organisation Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CEFILAC S.A. EU contribution No data Address Rue de la Roche du Geai 90 42000 SAINT-ETIENNE France See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CHEMATUR ENGINEERING AB Sweden EU contribution No data Address Baggaangsvaagen 43 691 27 KARLSKOGA See on map Total cost No data COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE France EU contribution No data Address 26702 PIERRELATTE See on map Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Germany EU contribution No data Address Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Strasse 7 76327 PFINZTAL See on map Total cost No data IRD FUEL CELL A/S Denmark EU contribution No data Address Kullinggade 31 SVENDBORG See on map Total cost No data SWEDISH CERAMIC INSTITUTE Sweden EU contribution No data Address 4,Origovaegen 4 402 29 GOETEBORG See on map Total cost No data WARTSILA NSD OY AB Finland EU contribution No data Address Jarvikatu 2-4 65101 VAASA See on map Total cost No data