Objective The EU-27 industrial laundry sector, with 11.000 establishments (more than 90% SMEs), washes 2,7 billion kg of soiled textiles per year (wet weight) employing 168.000 workers and utilizing 42 million m3 of wash water and 60 PJ of energy per year. It generates similar quantities of waste water, to be treated, and substantial CO2 emissions (3,8 million tons CO2/year). The annual turnover of the sector is 5,1 billion euro, which can be doubled if all disposable textile articles were replaced by environmentally friendly reusable items. Focused and coordinated research to develop and improve innovative technologies can greatly enhance the performance of the sector. The conventional laundry processes are characterized by large enthalpy destructions and resource inefficiencies. It is the purpose of the project to design the SMART LAUNDRY-2015 through research, further development and adaptation of 16 key technologies (combined for green sites or individual for existing plant augmentation). These include water reduction, energy savings, green fuel substitutions for CO2 reductions, new energy systems and improved sequencing of the processes, greater textile hyiene. Full implementation of the SMART LAUNDRY-2015 will reduce the annual water consumptions by at least 10,4 million m3 (30%), the energy consumptions by 27,5 PJ (45%) and the overall CO2 emissions by 2,3 million tons CO2 per year (60% reduction) at 100% market penetration in the year 2015. Improved laundry services with the 16 key technologies and practices will enhance reusable textiles and reduce the throwaways and disposables by 20%. The 16 key technologies will be investigated at pilot scale level and subsequently integrated in a unified design. A parallel benchmarking and innovation monitoring will validate both the actual energy demand and the potential of energy savings of the future innovations. Future economic gains from SMILES are projected at 1020 million EUR in the next 10 years. An important component of project SMILES is the educational effort and training of key staff members and hand-on workers to assist in the introduction of the Smart Laundry-2015. The project also encompasses the writing, production and dissemination of key materials by a special website (smartlaundry2015.com) to national associations and to all SMEs in the sector. Finally the resource reductions are assured by an automated energy management system controlling and monitoring input and output savings. SMILES has 6 WPs: WP1 Water reduction, WP2 Energy/CO2 reduction, WP3 Chemicals reduction, WP4 Quality improvement/Risk analysis, WP5 Integration/Transfer and WP6 Project management. The project has a well-planned management structure for the cooperation between 5 SME-AGs, 2 SMEs and 8 RTDs from 7 EU countries. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2 - Research for SME associations Call for proposal FP7-SME-2007-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME-AG - Research for SME associations/groupings Coordinator Federatie van de Belgische Textielverzorging EU contribution € 657 345,11 Address Brusselsesteenweg 478 B-1731 Zellik Belgium See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Maarten Van Severen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (15) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNION DES RESPONSABLES DE BLANCHISSERIES HOSPITALIERES - U.R.B.H.* France EU contribution € 374 999,15 Address AVENUE LEON BLUM 60021 BEAUVAIS See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Thierry Desenzani (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data STOWARZYSZENIE PRALNIKOW POLSKICH Poland EU contribution € 120 711,29 Address UL.S BANACHA 1A 02 097 WARSAW See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Cecylia Wyszomierska Matczak (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data OBRTNO-PODJETNISKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE Slovenia EU contribution € 369 188,07 Address CELOVSKA CESTA 71 1000 LJUBLJANA See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dusan Krajnik (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CROATIAN CHAMBER OF ECONOMY CCE Croatia EU contribution € 274 290,00 Address ROOSEVELTOV TRG 2 10000 Zagreb See on map Region Hrvatska Grad Zagreb Grad Zagreb Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Dijana Varlec (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HOGESCHOOL GENT Belgium EU contribution No data Address GERAARD DE DUIVELSTRAAT 5 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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