Objective Commercial dishwashing consumes a huge amount of energy, water and chemical agents. Reducing this consumption could have a considerable environmental impact. Therefore 3 SMEs will develop new technologies for cleaning and filtering, ozone cleaning and micro filtering. Despite being an air pollutant, ozone is well known for its cleaning and sanitizing properties. It is widely used in drinking water preparation. Most kinds of dish soils besides grease are affected by ozone. So a successful development of ozone cleaning would allow for a reduction of chemical agents of 50-70 %. In commercial dishwashers the same water is used in different cleaning steps. Intermediate filtering would reduce the water consumption by 50%. The consumption of energy, mainly used for water heating, will be reduced by the same order of magnitude. Thus the CO2-emission would drop by more than 820 000 tons per year in the EU. The specific cleaning agent might affect the properties of the filters. Therefore it is necessary to treat cleaning and filtering in the same project. In order to perform these tasks, three SMEs start this project. - UK based Millennium pore holds patents on innovative filtering. - The German company Copperline is specialized in optimizing ozone generators. -The Polish Seaking company is expert in different types of galley equipment and stainless steel appliances and as a system integrator. - The Belgian Laboratory for Physical and Analytical Chemistry (LPAC) is specialist on ozone cleaning in industrial applications. - The German Fachhochschule M� participates with its two laboratories for sanitary and domestic techniques and for sensor technology, the last also acting as co-ordinator of the project. In order to shorten time-to-market, the German Hobart company participates as manufacturer of commercial dishwasher. The German Studentenwerk M� will bring in the views of an end-user demanding high hygienic standards. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesanalytical chemistryengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs Call for proposal FP6-2002-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator FACHHOCHSCHULE MUENSTER, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Address Hüfferstrasse 27 Münster Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all COPPERLINE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ELEKTRONIKENTWICKLUNG, PLANUNG UND PRODUKTION MBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Möllerstrasse 43 Dortmund See on map Links Website Opens in new window HOBART GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Robert-bosch-str. 17 Offenburg See on map Links Website Opens in new window KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Oude markt 13 Leuven See on map Links Website Opens in new window MILLENNIUMPORE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Unit 9, spire road, glover network centre Washington, tyne & wear See on map Links Website Opens in new window SEAKING POLAND LTD. Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ul. nowa 1b Czarnkow See on map STUDENTENWERK MÜNSTER, ANSTALT ÖFFENTLICHEN RECHTS Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bismarckallee 5 Münster See on map Links Website Opens in new window
