CorrOcean secure European funding for "Sens-IT

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(2003), "CorrOcean secure European funding for "Sens-IT", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 50 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.2003.12850bab.018

CorrOcean secure European funding for "Sens-IT"

CorrOcean secure European funding for "Sens-IT"

CorrOcean Ltd (Aberdeen) is pleased to announce the award of 1.7 million funding from the European Commission Fifth Framework Programme, ENERGIE.

This award is to a consortium of companies, led by CorrOcean, towards the 3.2 million development project (Sens-IT) over the next 3 years. Small Electronic Network Sensor Integrity Tool (Sens-IT) will develop a low-cost permanently installed microelectronic wireless monitoring system for process plant.

The Sens-IT project is focused on non-intrusive, low-cost, global, and rapid screening techniques based on permanently installed monitoring (PIM). This will enable real-time, on-line monitoring and assessment of large areas of plant, with the objective of eliminating loss of containment and drastically reducing downtime attributable to existing inspection and monitoring philosophies. The key issues surrounding the technology are the ability to sense defects, process information, and transmit this data via wireless methods to the plant operator, such that the operator can monitor and react to issues of plant integrity. Technology advances in new materials, new sensing techniques, microelectronics, data processing, and use of wireless communication methods is the basis of development. CorrOcean Ltd is the designated project co-ordinator leading a group of European companies including: Intelligent Decisions AS (Norway), University of Northumbria (Microelectronics Industrial Centre, Newcastle, UK), Vibration Technology Ltd (Glasgow, UK), and Intellectronic GmbH (Germany).

For further information, contact: David Liddle, Project Manager. E-mail: david.liddle@corrocean.co.uk