The Astech project
Objectives
The objective of the ASTECH project is to support the development of industrial manufacturers and engineering companies of heating and cooling systems (including energy storage) by introducing more renewable energy sources in their technology : solar thermal, biomass and heat pumps.
Nowadays, the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning industries are the actors who drive the market: but they provide their services using mainly fossil fuels or electricity as energy sources.
The ASTECH project aims at having them use renewable energy sources, combining conventional and renewable sources and proposing innovative environmentally cost-effective products.
This will contribute to the European goals of raising the share of renewable energy use up to 12% for 2012 and cutting down 20% of current energy consumption by 2020.
ASTECH Technical goals
The main technical goal of the project is to set-up Technology Resource Centres in Europe, with the aim of building bridges between the technology providers (research centres, architects, local actors, etc.).
The project outputs are :
* Creation of the clubs / grouping
* Collection of RTD results
* Development of design tools for evaluating and sizing the new technologies
* Best practice and training programme
* Creation of a knowledge resource centre relying on multi language search engines based on craft ontologies and terminologies
* International collaboration with China
Expected results
* Contacts and agreements between industrial companies and RTD centres of excellence,
* Resource Centres identified or created,
* National workshops and conferences,
* Online technical RES-HC documents database built on a domain ontology for multilingual information retrieval.
Project duration : September 2006 to February 2009 (30 months)
Project consortium
13 partners in 11 countries of EU (map) + China
Project coordinator
GRETh, France
Partners
Arsenal Research, Austria
ASTER, Italy
BSREC, Bulgaria
CRES, Greece
ECBREC, Poland
EVE, Spain
Geonardo, Hungary
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany
IT Power, United Kingdom
Ontologos, France
REHVA, The Netherlands
ZERI, China
The objective of the ASTECH project is to support the development of industrial manufacturers and engineering companies of heating and cooling systems (including energy storage) by introducing more renewable energy sources in their technology : solar thermal, biomass and heat pumps.
Nowadays, the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning industries are the actors who drive the market: but they provide their services using mainly fossil fuels or electricity as energy sources.
The ASTECH project aims at having them use renewable energy sources, combining conventional and renewable sources and proposing innovative environmentally cost-effective products.
This will contribute to the European goals of raising the share of renewable energy use up to 12% for 2012 and cutting down 20% of current energy consumption by 2020.
ASTECH Technical goals
The main technical goal of the project is to set-up Technology Resource Centres in Europe, with the aim of building bridges between the technology providers (research centres, architects, local actors, etc.).
The project outputs are :
* Creation of the clubs / grouping
* Collection of RTD results
* Development of design tools for evaluating and sizing the new technologies
* Best practice and training programme
* Creation of a knowledge resource centre relying on multi language search engines based on craft ontologies and terminologies
* International collaboration with China
Expected results
* Contacts and agreements between industrial companies and RTD centres of excellence,
* Resource Centres identified or created,
* National workshops and conferences,
* Online technical RES-HC documents database built on a domain ontology for multilingual information retrieval.
Project duration : September 2006 to February 2009 (30 months)
Project consortium
13 partners in 11 countries of EU (map) + China
Project coordinator
GRETh, France
Partners
Arsenal Research, Austria
ASTER, Italy
BSREC, Bulgaria
CRES, Greece
ECBREC, Poland
EVE, Spain
Geonardo, Hungary
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany
IT Power, United Kingdom
Ontologos, France
REHVA, The Netherlands
ZERI, China
