Project description
Greasing the wheels, in a green way
To ensure that trains run efficiently at all times, it’s important to grease the wheels. Adequate lubrication is needed to minimise friction between the wheel flange and rail interface. It’s also crucial for road transport vehicles, wind turbines and manufacturing plants. The EU-funded LubeMonitor project is developing a new set of lubrication products that are ecological. These products can sense the quality of the lubrication film from within. The project will tap a growing market, setting a EUR 6 million sales target after four years.
Objective
Railways, road transport vehicles, wind turbines, manufacturing plants, all need targeted, adequate lubrication in order to function. At the same time, we are striving for greater protection of the environment. There is a push for ever greater efficiency, a move towards ecological products.
Igralub and Graphenica lab are joining forces to develop a new field of products. Products that can sense the quality of the lubrication film from within. To do this, we want to apply the unique sensing properties of Graphene to the Tribology field. Our aim is to reduce the quantity of and reliance on oil based lubrication, to assist in the move to ecological lubricants. We want to drive a real breakthrough for lubrication.
The market is vast with us targeting initial sales in the railway sector of 6M€ after 4 years from Market entry and increased employment across our joint venture of at least 12 additional employees by 2025. We propose an SME Instrument phase 1 project to assist us with a client-side pilot for the technology, as well as increased research regarding needed stakeholders and our overall business planning.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering tribology lubrication
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials two-dimensional nanostructures graphene
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy wind energy
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- social sciences social geography transport
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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08018 BARCELONA
Spain
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