Research and development of a low cost biologic sensor for hydrocarbon pollution detection in sea water

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: EVK3-CT-2000-35002

Project closed

Start date 3 July 2000

End date 2 July 2001

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Total cost € 30 000,00

EU contribution € 22 500,00

Coordinated by

NEREIDES SA
France

Objective

The sea water in particular is regularly affected by pollution with hydrocarbons. Generally speaking, the detection of sea water pollution is today only carried out through the direct vision of this pollution and its consequences on the environment. As a result, a significant number of sea water pollution cases are not detected whereas it has noxous effects on the environment or are detected too lately for their treatment and the prevention of their consequences to be fully effective. Lastly, the identification of its roots is not easy. NEREIDES and TMI aim to answer these needs through the development of a low cost biologic sensor to detect sea water hydrocarbon pollution. The foreseen sensor will use microorganisms or microbial enzymes to detect some of the compounds constantly present in hydrocarbons: naphtalene and phenanthrene. The main features are : real-time detection, very low detection thresholds, easy setting-up, low manufacturing, implementing, operating and servicing costs. These advantages would allow to reduce in a major way the impact of water pollution on the environment, to ensure an easy identification of their origin, to identify the polluters and thus to decrease the number of offence.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › hydrocarbons
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences › pollution
• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › proteins › enzymes

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-3. - Key action Sustainable Marine Ecosystems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

NEREIDES SA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 4, Avenue des Indes ; 91969 LES ULIS ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

TRONDHEIM MARITIME INSTRUMENTERING AS

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Pirensenteret ; 07462 OSLO
• Total cost: No data